NEWS - Media Literacy

Expected Outcome:

The Call for Proposals will result in:

• creating or scaling up cross-border collaborations that support impactful and innovative approaches to media literacy based on the latest best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders. Those collaborations shall focus on eligible countries that face particular challenges in terms of media literacy, exposure to disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference campaigns, and/or in terms of threats to media pluralism and independence.
• developing and deploying media literacy tools, trainings, campaigns, events and/or other initiatives targeting specific audiences, including but not limited to groups with limited media literacy skills or access. Priority should be given to initiatives with the potential to reach a broad audience, and/or targeted groups currently underserved by media literacy programmes;
• assisting media literacy professionals in adapting their practices to the rapidly evolving technological development, media formats and changing media consumption patterns (including the growing role social media and influencers in news consumption, AI-generated content, algorithms, etc.) while contributing to societal resilience against disinformation and foreign interference and information manipulation.

Objective

This action encourages innovative cross-border media literacy projects and practices across Europe among various population segments, focusing in particular on non-educational settings, addressing the challenges of a continuously changing digital media landscape, enhancing societal resilience and preparedness against information integrity risks. The selected projects should aim, among others, at developing a better knowledge of the evolving information ecosystem and information integrity risks among citizens, as well as a “know-how” with concrete, practical skills to navigate the information space effectively and safely.

Scope:

Support is foreseen for innovative and collaborative projects with clearly defined objectives to advance media literacy, including with a view to strengthen societal resilience against disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI). Innovative approaches may include novel or original ideas, methods, tools, or modes of implementation, whether online or offline

All proposals should seek to:

• provide solutions that enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media, and to recognise, prepare for, and appropriately react to disinformation, information manipulation techniques, and other challenges in the online media environment, focusing in particular on non-educational settings,
• address the constantly changing media ecosystem including developments such as changing news production and consumption patterns, the evolution in media formats, the growing role of online platforms, artificial intelligence,
• involve relevant actors such as media and information integrity professionals, content creators/influencers, gamers, artists, and other players that work on producing news media content,
• cross cultural, national and/or linguistic borders to strengthen collaboration between Member States and other eligible countries,
• build on and scale up best practices from recent media literacy projects.

Type of action: CREA Project Grants

Programme period: 2021 - 2027

Priorities: DigitalAgenda, AI

"> Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

Described in the call document .

Proposal page limits and layout: described in the call document and Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries

Described in the call document .

3. Other eligibility conditions

Described in the call document .

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

Described in the call document .

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

Described in the call document .

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

Described in the call document .

Publication of the call: 20 October 2026

Deadline for submitting applications: 20 January 2027 17:00 (Brussels time)

Evaluation period: February-June 2027

Information to applicants: July 2027

Signature of grant agreement: October 2027

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

Described in the call document .

Call document and annexes:

Described in the call document . Application form templates Standard application form (CREA MEDIA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Model Grant Agreements (MGA) CREA MGA

Additional documents:

CREA Annual Work Programmes CREA Regulation 2021/818 EU Fin