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The EU's Creative Europe Programme programme expects to make awards, from a total budget of €3.5 million. Applications close on 20 Jan 2027 (EU calls usually close at 17:00 Brussels time).

Deadline: 20 Jan 2027 (in 66 days)
Grant amount: €3.5 million total budget
Funding rate: Varies by programme — see the call conditions
Total budget: €3.5 million
Type of action: CREA Project Grants · CREA Action Grant Budget-Based
Likely applicant types: Non-profits, Public bodies, Companies, SMEs / start-ups, Universities & research From source categories or programme rules; the call decides.
Funder: Creative Europe Programme (CREA)
Reference: CREA-CROSS-2027-MEDIALITERACY
Call: CREA-CROSS-2027-MEDIALITERACY
Last checked: 14 Nov 2026

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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.

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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,

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• 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.

Topics

Capacity building Creative Europe Cross-media Journalists Training Media literacy

Timing

Single-stage call. Next deadline 2027-01-20. The portal states the exact cut-off time (EU calls usually close at 17:00 Brussels time).

How to apply

Read the full topic on the Funding & Tenders Portal: expected outcome, scope, type of action and the topic conditions, including any country restrictions.
Register each participating organisation in the Funding & Tenders Portal to get a PIC.
Check the topic conditions for the minimum number of partners.
Prepare Part A (administrative forms and budget, completed in the portal) and Part B (the technical description on the official template for this type of action).
Submit in the portal before the cut-off time on the deadline day. Late submissions are not accepted.

From the call text

Who can apply: Not stated in the call text we hold — check the official page
Company stage: Not stated in the call text we hold — check the official page
Single applicant or consortium: Read the topic conditions on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal for eligible countries, consortium requirements, budget and the application route.
Where applicants must be based: Read the topic conditions on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal for eligible countries, consortium requirements, budget and the application route.
Where to apply: Read the topic conditions on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal for eligible countries, consortium requirements, budget and the application route.

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Where these facts come from

Fact	Value	How we know	Taken from the source
Deadline	20 January 2027 “Single-stage call. Next deadline 2027-01-20. The portal states the exact cut-off time (EU calls usually close at 17:00 Brussels time).”	official data field	15 Nov 2026
Amount per applicant	Unknown — not stated in the source we hold	unknown	—
Total budget	€3.5 million	official data field	15 Nov 2026
Funding rate	Unknown — not stated in the source we hold	unknown	—
Who can apply	Unknown — not stated in the source we hold	unknown	—
Where to apply	Read the topic conditions on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal for eligible countries, consortium requirements, budget and the application route.	read from the official text	15 Nov 2026

Official sources

Official call page

Facts on this page come from the funder’s official data, taken on 14 Nov 2026. The funder's own documents, including later amendments, always take precedence.