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PPPA – Building a trustworthy social media sphere: countering disinformation on social media for young Europeans – 2025

PPPA - Pilot Projects (PP) and Preparatory Actions (PA) are important tools for the formulation of political priorities and the introduction of new initiatives that could develop into permanent EU activities and programs (with their own budget lines).

2025-12-02
5.985.000 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference PPPA-2025-DISINFORMATION
Programme Pilot Projects & Preparation Actions (PPPA)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Culture, Media & Communication Education & Training Research & Innovation Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries All beneficiaries

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Call reference

PPPA-2025-DISINFORMATION



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To enhance young people’s awareness of the threats to information integrity, such as disinformation, manipulation, and artificial content
  • To create and disseminate engaging, multilingual content across the EU
  • To involve influencers and young people in a participatory content creation process
  • To build partnerships between influencers and information integrity professionals
  • To evaluate and share best practices on promoting trustworthy content

Priorities

  • Priority 1: to design a participatory process involving young Europeans and influencers
  • Priority 2: to produce youth-oriented content related to the threats to information integrity and ways to counter them
  • Priority 3 : to develop a wide, cross-national and inclusive media literacy campaign
  • Priority 4 : to ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and standards on information integrity

Among financed actions

  • Organisation of events (pop-up production workshops, side events or interactive booths at youth festivals, kick-off and closing events)
  • Production and European-wide distribution of multilingual content
  • Community–influencer engagement hubs
  • A pan-European collaboration network
  • A continuous impact evaluation and optimisation loop

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • A consortium composed of at least 7 applicants, established in at least 7 different eligible countries must be constituted

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 24 months
  • Contact: : CNECTI4@ec.europa.eu

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 5.985.000 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: 3.100.000 million euros
  • Funding rate : up to 85%