The News - Media Literacy call will support innovative cross-border media literacy projects and practices across Europe among various population segments, addressing the challenges of a continuously changing digital media landscape.
The information on this page is for general information purposes only. Please read the News - Media Literacy Call document 2026 to check eligibility and requirements.
What is the purpose of the funding?
The News - Media Literacy funding aims to:
- Create or scale up cross-border collaborations to deliver projects that implement best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders;
- Develop and deploy 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;
- Assist media literacy professionals in adapting their practices to rapidly evolving media formats and changing media consumption patterns.
Please read the News - Media Literacy Call document 2026 to check eligibility and requirements
Support available for
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, 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.
Please read the News - Media Literacy Call document 2026 to check eligibility and requirements.
Who can apply?
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 with the Creative Europe Programme (list of participating countries).
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
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/or non-profit organisations, whether private or public, such as public authorities (national, regional, local), international organisations, universities and educational institutions, media organisations, research and technology institutions, technology providers, etc.
Read the full Media Literacy call document to check eligibility and requirements.
How much can you apply for?
Project budget maximum grant amount: €500,000 per project.
The grant will be a budget-based (actual costs, with unit cost and flat-rate elements). This means that it will reimburse ONLY certain types of costs (eligible costs) and costs that were actually incurred for your project (NOT the budgeted costs).
The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (70%).
Grants may NOT produce a profit (i.e. surplus of revenues + EU grant over costs). For-profit organisations must declare their revenues and, if there is a profit, it will be deducted it from the final grant amount.
Please read the News - Media Literacy Call document 2026 for full details.
How can you apply?
- Read and download the call document for the News - Media Literacy Call Document in order to check eligibility and requirements.
- Applications are processed through the European Commission's Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal (F&TP).
- Detailed information on how to access the F&T Portal.
