News - Journalism Partnerships - Collaborations

Code: 35112 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/10/2024 | End submission calls: 27/02/2025

This topic aims to support the economical sustainability of news media. It supports cross-border media collaborations focusing, among other aspects, on the resilience of news media organisations. This support shall foster media transformation, trustworthy reporting and skills for news media professionals, for instance by developing new business models and media production standards.

News - Journalism Partneships - Pluralism

Code: 35110 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2025-JOURPART-PLURALISM | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/10/2024 | End submission calls: 27/02/2025

Besides a purely economic aspect, independent media contribute to upholding the essential principles of media freedom and pluralism.

This topic seeks to protect news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, investigative journalism and organisations delivering public interest news. Support will target organisations with experience in media to put in cascading grants (i.e. regranting / support to third parties).

NEWS - Media Freedom Rapid Response Mechanism

Code: 35106 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2025-MFP | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/10/2024 | End submission calls: 15/01/2025

The European Democracy Action Plan stresses that physical and online threats and attacks on journalists are on the rise in several Member States and proposes sustainable funding for projects with a focus on legal and practical assistance to journalists in the EU and elsewhere, including safety and cybersecurity training for journalists and diplomatic support. The Commission’s annual Rule of Law Report refers to physical and online threats and attacks on journalists as a persistent issue across Europe. In September 2021 the Commission adopted a Recommendation on ensuring the protection, safety and empowerment of journalists and other media professionals in the European Union.

NEWS - Media Literacy

Code: 35104 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2025-MEDIALITERACY | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/10/2024 | End submission calls: 06/03/2025

Support will encourage knowledge sharing and exchanges on media literacy policies and practices to enable the development of innovative cross-border media literacy initiatives and communities across Europe, in a continuously changing digital media landscape and taking into account current user behaviour among various age groups.

Creative Innovation Lab

Code: 35102 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2025-INNOVLAB | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/10/2024 | End submission calls: 24/04/2025

The InnovLab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.

The objectives of the scheme is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and other CCSs in order to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders. The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual sector and other CCSs to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds.

NEWS - Media literacy

Code: 31419 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2024-MEDIALITERACY | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 26/10/2023 | End submission calls: 07/03/2024

The objective of the call is to promote media literacy in order to enable citizens to use, and develop a critical understanding of the media and support knowledge sharing and exchanges on media literacy policies and practices.

NEWS - Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism

Code: 31402 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2024-JOURPART-PLURALISM | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 26/10/2023 | End submission calls: 14/02/2024

Besides a purely economic aspect, independent media play a crucial and valuable role in societies and contribute to upholding the essential principles of media freedom and pluralism. This support seeks to protect news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, investigative journalism and organisations delivering public interest news. Support will target organisations with experience in media to put in cascading grants (i.e. regranting / support to third parties).

NEWS - Journalism Partnerships – Collaborations

Code: 31399 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2024-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 26/10/2023 | End submission calls: 14/02/2024

This Topic aims to help the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, specifically by supporting cross-border media collaborations. This support shall foster media transformation, trustworthy reporting and skills for news media professionals, for instance by developing media production standards and new business models.

Innovation Lab

Code: 31397 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2024-INNOVLAB | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 26/10/2023 | End submission calls: 25/04/2024

The Creative Innovation Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors. The InnovLab shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) with a high potential of replicability in those sectors.

Innovation Lab

Code: 25407 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2023-INNOVLAB | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 20/04/2023

The InnovLab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors.
Activities shall aim at supporting the competitiveness, greening process, cooperation, circulation, visibility, availability, diversity and/or audience across sectors. Such activities shall contain a high potential of replicability in audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors.

NEWS: Journalism partnerships - Collaborations

Code: 25380 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2023-JOURPART-COLLABORATIONS | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 27/04/2023

Helping the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, thus contributing to trustworthy reporting, to skills development and employment for news media professionals and journalists, in particular by supporting media collaborations. This topic will support cross-cutting actions that address the structural and technological changes faced by the media sector, and support high-quality media production standards and business models by fostering cooperation, digital skills, cross-border and/or collaborative journalism.

NEWS: Journalism partnerships - Pluralism

Code: 25378 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2023-JOURPART-PLURALISM | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 08/12/2022 | End submission calls: 27/04/2023

This topic will support civil society organisations activein media, and help them in setting up supporting schemes for news media organisations and independent journalism, as well as other capacity-building measures. These actions, including third party support, will target media active in sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, independent and investigative journalism and other organisations delivering public interest news.

Press and media councils and professional standards

Code: 22663 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2022-MFP-COUNCILSandSTANDARDS | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 31/05/2022 | End submission calls: 20/09/2022

This action aims to further strengthen the position of press and media councils in a converged media environment and help in further development of deontological standards. It outcomes will include the development and maintenance of a database on media self-regulatory bodies; exchange of best practices; support to new media councils; training for journalists; cooperation with media regulators; assistance in developing journalistic standards, including through the pan-EU Working Group. It follows up on the preparatory action “Media councils in digital age”.

Rapid response mechanism

Code: 22658 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2022-MFP-RAPIDRESPONSE | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 31/05/2022 | End submission calls: 20/09/2022

This action is expected to provide practical help to protect journalists under threat, including concrete tools such as advice and legal support as well as offering shelter and logistical assistance thereby enabling the targeted journalists to continue pursuing their professional activities. This can include financial support when needed. The project will also organise visits to affected countries. Anti-impunity action shall be supported through advocacy. The tools used will be adjusted to accommodate individual needs on a case-by-case basis.

Innovation Lab

Code: 19664 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2022-INNOVLAB | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 01/03/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The Creative Innovation Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors.
For the purposes of this year’s call, in addition to recurring objectives and activities, a thematic approach is also being adopted. For the second year of the Creative Innovation Lab the two themes are greening as well as innovative education tools to tackle relevant societal topics such as disinformation. The aim is to foster lifecycle thinking and promote a more sustainable and inclusive living environment and way of life.

NEWS-Journalism partnerships

Code: 19515 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2022-JOURPART | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 24/02/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

Journalism Partnerships shall encourage systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations to improve the viability and competitiveness of professionally produced journalism, by focusing on collaborative business transformation and/or collaborative journalistic projects.

Innovation Lab

Code: 3972 | Identifier Code: CREA-CROSS-2021-INNOVLAB | Programme name: Cross-sectoral strand | Sub-program: Cross-sectoral strand | Start submission calls: 01/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/10/2021

The Creative Innovation Lab shall incentivise players from different cultural and creative sectors to design and test innovative digital solutions with a potential positive long-term impact on multiple cultural and creative sectors.