NEWS - Media Literacy (CREA-CROSS-2026-MEDIALITERACY)
Opening Date23/10/2025
Deadline Date11/03/2026
Submission LanguageEnglish
Maximum Value500.000,00 €
Percentage of Financing70%
StatusClosed
StatusClosed
Who
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: Creative Europe Participating Countries:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme
Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
- minimum 3 independent entities from 3 different eligible countries
- consortia may include profit and non-profit organisations (private or public), public authorities (national, regional, local), international organisations, universities and educational institutions, media organisations, research and technology institutions, technology providers, etc.
Eligibility
Activities that can be funded (scope)
The following types of activities are eligible under this Call for proposals:
- Creation and/or distribution of multilingual and/or multicultural material, including interactive content to improve the digital capacities of citizens, their understanding of the media landscape, and their resilience against disinformation and information manipulation attempts
- Development of media literacy tools and other materials for citizens, trainers, content creators, and media, targeting all or specific ages and societal groups.
- Development of innovative media literacy solutions fit for the current and future media landscape (the project can include prototypes but not focus exclusively on IT development).
- Training activities for citizens, educators, content creators, including the sharing of best practices across linguistic, national and cultural borders.
- Organisation of public events and/or workshops to raise awareness and share best practices.
- Community-led activities to tailor and make accessible media literacy tools and other materials.
Expected impact
The Call for Proposals will result in:
- creating or scaling up cross-border collaborations to deliver projects that implement best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders;
- developing and deploying media literacy tools and initiatives, taking into account the needs of specific target groups, including but not limited to groups with limited media literacy skills or access;
- assisting media literacy professionals in adapting their practices to rapidly evolving media formats and changing media consumption patterns.
What
Within the specific objective to promote policy cooperation and innovative actions supporting all strands of the Programme and to promote a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment and media literacy, thereby fostering freedom of artistic expression, intercultural dialogue and social inclusion, one of the priorities of the Crosssectoral strand is:
- to promote cross-sectoral activities that aim at adjusting to the structural and technological changes faced by the media, including enhancing a free, diverse, and pluralistic media environment, quality journalism and media, literacy including in the digital environment.
Themes and priorities (scope)
- Support is foreseen for collaborative projects with clearly defined objectives to advance media literacy, addressing the following priorities:
- Provide solutions that enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media, and to recognise and appropriately react to disinformation, information manipulation techniques, and other challenges in the online media environment.
- Build on and scale up best practices from innovative media literacy projects that take into account a changing media ecosystem, crossing cultural, national or linguistic borders, and strengthening collaboration between different regions of Europe. Innovative approaches may include novel or original ideas, methods, tools, or modes of implementation, whether online or offline.
- Consider the role of media literacy for citizen inclusiveness, civic engagement and societal resilience, including resilience against attempts to interfere with citizens’ free choice and participation in democratic processes.
Funding
- The estimated available call budget is 3.000.000,00 €
- Projects should normally be 24 months.
- Project budget (maximum grant amount): 500.000,00 €.
- The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (70%).
Documents
Organisation: European Commission – European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Creative Europe Programme (CREA))
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