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This round is closed. Synced from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal on 9 November 2026.
Projects the EU funded under this call, with the organisation that led each one.
ENTR NGENTR Next Generation
Led by Deutsche Welle · Germany · 2026 · Official record ↗
Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.
Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.
The projects are expected to have the following impacts:
Objectives
The objective of this call is to foster the awareness and resilience of young Europeans related to information integrity risks, strengthening relevant media and digital literacy skills. This to equip them with the skills and knowledge to navigate safely and critically in the online information space and participate in society as active and informed citizens. This should be achieved by developing engaging, multilingual content tailored to the consumption patterns and interests of young Europeans. Ensuring a broad coverage of at least thirteen EU Member States is a key criterion for the proposal evaluation.
Specific objectives
The call seeks to fund two innovative projects that implement the following activities in all covered Member States.
1. Design a participatory process involving young Europeans and influencers
The consortium will design and implement a participatory process to allow young Europeans to share their ideas, questions and concerns related to the online information space and information integrity, involving them in the creation and dissemination of engaging content to address information integrity and safety online. The objective is to ensure strong involvement of young Europeans as well as influencers at all stages, from design to delivery. This aims to ensure that the multimedia content, and the campaigns designed to disseminate it, are as targeted and relevant as possible to young Europeans’ interests while also leveraging on the experience, knowledge and follower base of influencers.
2. Produce youth-oriented content related to the threats to information integrity and ways to counter them
The consortium will produce engaging multilingual multimedia content that caters to the needs and preferences and consumption habits of 15- to 30-year-olds across all covered Member States.
3. Develop a wide, cross-national and inclusive media literacy campaign
The consortium will design and implement a comprehensive digital media campaign that will ensure an EU-wide and as broad as possible dissemination of the multimedia content produced under point 2. The campaign will also serve to maintain an overview of all activities related to the project and to collect relevant metrics on reach and impact (audiences reached via the different channels used, number and quality of interactions with the campaign content, etc.). The campaign’s key messages will support the objective of this Call for proposals, which is to promote critical thinking and responsible online behaviour among young Europeans aged 15–30 by helping them identify, understand and counter the mechanisms that threaten information integrity.
4. Ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and standards on information integrity
The consortium will apply ethical guidelines and standards on information integrity in their partnerships with influencers and in the whole process for producing and disseminating multimedia content. This will ensure that the output is accurate, trustworthy, ethical, and privacy-respecting.
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
The application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
General MGA
Additional documents:
COMMISSION DECISION of 18.3.2025 on the financing of pilot projects and preparatory actions in the field of "Communications Networks, Content and Technology" and on the adoption of the work programme for 2025
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Applicants asked the EU 9 questions about this call and the EU published the answers. They clarify the call documents but do not replace them.
No, the requirement to cover 13 Member States does not impose an obligation to feature a consortium partner or affiliated entity from each Member States that the applying consortium seeks to cover. Coverage may be demonstrated for example through relevant activities of applicants in Member States other than the one where they are legally established, through proposed subcontracting activities, or any other documentation of operational capacity in this regard (c.f. below).
For the applicable rules concerning subcontracting, please refer to p.24 and p. 31 of the call document. Subcontracting may not cover core tasks of the action, and subcontracting costs should not represent more than 30 % of the total eligible direct costs of the action.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
No, only partners from EU member states can be direct consortium partners. Organizations from non-EU countries can only be associated partners, subcontractors, or third parties giving in-kind contributions. Associated partners and third parties giving in-kind contributions should bear their own costs (they will not become formal recipients of EU funding).
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
Yes, a newly established non-profit association can be eligible for joining the consortium if it meets the minimum criteria for being a consortium partner and can demonstrate stable and sufficient financial and operational capacity (human resources, know-how, qualifications) to successfully implement the project and contribute their share.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
Associated partners are entities which participate in the action, but without the right to charge costs or claim contributions, and are explicitly listed in the Grant Agreement. Therefore, entities that are not eligible for funding may participate in EU actions as associated partners, for example out of interest in contributing to the objectives of the action or gaining visibility. Each person or entity should only participate in a single role in an action as to inter alia ensure certainty on cost eligibility. A combination of roles is foreseen in the Annotated Grant AgreementPDF, however only for very limited cases described therein and under the condition that such combination of roles is not used in a way to circumvent the rules of the Grant Agreement.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
It is not required to prove liquidity of the total amount estimated to be covered by the consortium’s own resources ahead of the project. However, before awarding a project, the European Commission carries out financial capacity checks, and may impose additional information requirements or conditions if the financial capacity is not satisfactory. You may find more information on the financial capacity checks in section 7 (p.18) of the call text.
The co-financing share of the consortium partners may be provided in the form of the beneficiary’s own resources, income generated by the action or financial contribution from third parties. Note that In-kind contributions from third parties, i.e. non-financial resources made available free of charge by third parties to the beneficiary or to the consortium or in the form of volunteers’ work cannot be considered as source of co-funding.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
Yes, the four specific core activities described in the “Themes and priorities” section of the call text must be covered for a competitive application. The same applies to activities that are listed as elements that the consortium should implement “at minimum” under the respective core activity.
However, the non-exhaustive and non-mandatory ideas of implementation given in the call text are examples: not proposing these specific activities will not impact the evaluation of your proposal negatively.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
No, there is no specific proportion of content that needs to be created by influencers.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
The call for proposals sets no target number for pieces of content produced. In their proposal, applicants should however give a clear and credible account of how they aim to achieve strong impact of their activities in the covered Member States, and formulate pertinent key performance indicators to this effect.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 17 Nov 2025
The eligibility criterion to involve at least one applicant that is an independent fact-checking organisation can be met by involving an organisation that meets the standards developed by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (efcsn.com ) or the International Fact-Checking Network (ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org). Compliance with these standards can be demonstrated through the organisation in question being a certified member (EFCSN) or signatory (IFCN) of these entities.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 18 Nov 2025
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