NEWS - JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS - COLLABORATIONS
JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS · CREA-PJG
What this call funds
This call funds collaborative projects that help European news media become more sustainable and resilient, especially smaller outlets. It supports work on new revenue models, shared technical standards, journalist training, content exchange networks and other ways for media organisations to work together across borders to adapt to digital and economic pressures.
media journalism · civil society democracy · artificial intelligence
Who wins this
A consortium of news media organisations or sector bodies from different European countries working together on a transnational collaborative project to make a specific news media subsector more sustainable.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- CREA-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- CREA Project Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Support to third parties
- Financial support to third parties is accepted for exchange programmes, training or event attendance, collaborative journalistic projects, legal advice, technical tools for collaborative journalism, events, and prizes for collaboration or innovation. Applicants must define the terms and ensure a fair, transparent process.
- Also required
- Applicants must sign a Declaration on Standards and Independence and partnerships involving editorial work must operate with full editorial independence.
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. Mandatory Annex: Declaration on Standards and Independence (from coordinator and all partners) (template 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: OCTOBER 20 2026. Deadline for submitting applications: FEBRUARY 4 2027 17:00 (Brussels time). Evaluation period: FEBRUARY - JULY 2027. Information to applicants: AUGUST 2027. Signature of grant agreement: NOVEMBER 2027. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document