CREATIVE EUROPE – NEWS – Media Literacy – 2026

Objectives

• To promote policy cooperation and innovative actions
• To promote a diverse, independent and pluralistic media environment and media literacy
• To promote cross-sectoral activities that aim at adjusting to the structural and technological changes faced by the media
• To encourage innovative cross-border media literacy projects

Priorities

• Priority 1: provide solutions that enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media
• Priority 2: build on and scale up best practices from innovative media literacy projects that take into account a changing media ecosystem
• Priority 3: consider the role of media literacy for citizen inclusiveness, civic engagement and societal resilience

Among financed actions

• Creation and/or distribution of multilingual and/or multicultural materia
• Development of media literacy tools
• Training activities
• Community-led activities

Eligibility

• 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 (list of participating countries)
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal.
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted.

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: up to 24 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: EACEA-CREATIVE-EUROPE-MEDIA-LITERACY@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 3 million euros
• Amount of the grant: up to 500.000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs