The 6th yearly call is open for cross-border, collaborative proposals between news media organisations focusing on innovative business models and/or journalistic projects across Europe.

The European news media sectors are facing multiple challenges. Partly as result of the digital shift, the financial sustainability of professional journalism is under pressure. This opening aims to help European news media become more sustainable and resilient specifically by supporting cross-border media collaborations.

Through this call for proposals, transnational consortia of media organisations are called to join efforts to foster media transformation, trustworthy reporting and skills for news media professionals, for instance by developing media production standards, new business models, new types of newsrooms and journalistic formats, sharing of best practices, etc.

The available budget this year is EUR 6.9 million. Each project will be granted maximum EUR 2 million. The maximum co-financing rate is 80% of the total eligible costs. This means that applicants need to co-finance their projects. This opening is one of the two topics launched this year under the Journalism Partnerships call for proposals. The other topic calls for entities setting up journalism funds.