# European Network of Factcheckers
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**topic id:** DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS
**call id:** DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08
**title:** European Network of Factcheckers
**programme:** Digital Europe
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS
**description:** Expected Outcome:
The Network will support activities aiming at increasing fact-checking capacity and coverage across the EU. Such activities will include targeted support for fact-checkers, including collaboration activities, peer-to peer support as well as relevant technical infrastructure and tools to support their work.
Objective:
The EU supports the capacity of a multidisciplinary community to understand, monitor and counter disinformation.
The objective of this topic is to maintain and further develop a platform supporting the operations of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), as well as deepening the language coverage and operational capacity of fact-checking in Europe.
In particular, the topic will support the operational cooperation between fact-checkers, researchers and media literacy practitioners across the EU through EDMO and support fact-checkers, with the aim to contribute to the fight against disinformation, to gain further insight on disinformation, monitoring of the disinformation space, debunking disinformation through the network of fact-checkers, and increasing the resilience of media professionals and citizens to disinformation.
Scope:
The scope of this work strand is to strengthen the capacity of the European fact-checking community and making fact-checking available in all languages, building on and further expanding activities initially carried out by European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and other European fact-checking initiatives like the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). Activities may also cover candidate and accession countries, associated to the Programme, in view of the specific vulnerabilities to disinformation and Russian interference in this region.
Funded activities, including through financial support to third parties, may include items such as:
• collaboration activities and capacity building for joint investigations;
• peer-to-peer support from established fact-checking organisations to newly created ones;
• technical infrastructure / tools supporting the activities of fact-checkers;
• targeted trainings for fact-checkers and media professionals, with particular emphasis on supporting the emergence of fact-checking in regions and languages that are currently not yet well covered.
 To enshrine the independence of fact-checkers, activities funded will build on the independence and transparency standards developed by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN).
Through this dedicated work strand, fact-checkers capacity to play a vital role in the fight against disinformation will be further developed and supported. The funded activities shall also empower European Fact-Checkers to work hand-in-hand with the European Democracy Shield, ensuring full complementarity.
**conditions:** Conditions
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
Standard application form (DEP) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
DEP MGA 

Additional documents:
 DEP Work Programmes
DEP Regulation 2021/964 
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
**action type:** DIGITAL Grants for Financial Support
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **110279:** 
      -         **action:** DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS - DIGITAL-GFS DIGITAL Grants for Financial Support
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 5000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2025-09-02
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 1
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-04-15
    **110280:** 
      -         **action:** DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-NETWORKSICs - DIGITAL-SIMPLE DIGITAL Simple Grants
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 42000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2025-09-02
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 31
        **max Contribution:** 0
        **min Contribution:** 0
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-04-15
**keywords:** DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08-FACTCHECKERS, DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08, Artificial intelligence, Civil society organisations, Cloud trust & security, Collaborative and social computing, Communication, Communication network, Communities of practices, Computer and information sciences, Computer sciences - Operating systems (software development only), Computer sciences, information science and bioinformatics, Computing, Data Security and Privacy, Data archiving, Data integrity, Data protection, Data reuse, Data visualization, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Services and Platforms, Education, Human computer interaction, IT skills and competence, Information systems, Internet of Things, embedded systems, pervasive systems, Knowledge transfer, Libraries and archives, Media literacy, New technologies for Audio-Visual sector - Media, Privacy, Public administration, Public sector information, Public sector innovation, Regional development, SME support, Scalability, Social Media, Technological innovation, Technology evaluation, Telecommunications, Theories, techniques and tools for the identification, collection, attribution, acquisition, analysis and preservation of digital evidence, Trust, Trust and connectivity services, Trustworthy ICT, Virtual Reality, Web and information systems, database systems, information retrieval and digital libraries, data fusion
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