# European Digital Media Observatory Hubs
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**topic id:** DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS
**call id:** DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09
**title:** European Digital Media Observatory Hubs
**programme:** Digital Europe
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-11-04T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS
**description:** Expected Outcome:
Deliverables
EDMO will continue to maintain and further support a platform for joint activities to analyse and respond to the phenomenon of disinformation. EDMO will be carrying out and coordinating various activities in this field, including investigations, targeted research, monitoring as well as media literacy and communication activities throughout Europe and across the national/multinational research hubs.
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 funding will support further consolidation of EDMO’s role as a key player in the fight against disinformation in Europe, in particular:
• operation of a platform composed of a set of tools and services responding to the needs of the EDMO community composed of researchers, fact-checkers, media literacy practitioners and other relevant stakeholders, including services and actions to support and protect these communities when carrying out their work;
• fostering and coordinating research activities and open-source investigations on disinformation at European level focused on detecting and analysing, in an agile and practice-oriented way emerging and prominent issues related to the disinformation landscape;
• carrying out activities for monitoring disinformation trends and narratives across the EU, including through pre- and debunking;
• investigating and fostering the development and use of novel tools such as Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI to respond to addressing current challenges in the disinformation landscape, including AI-generated disinformation and deepfakes, and in this respect also collaborate with ongoing Horizon Europe projects working on AI-tools to fight disinformation;
• monitoring and reacting to disinformation threats related to crisis situations and elections – including by pre- and debunking - as well as to emerging disinformation waves, including giving assistance to neighbourhood countries through dedicated actions, targeted communication and awareness raising campaigns;
• supporting targeted activities to facilitate access to data for researchers to allow conducting research activities on disinformation;
• supporting activities related to the implementation of the 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation;
• coordinating and carrying out tailor-made media literacy activities and campaigns at European level, targeting both the general public and vulnerable groups;
• carrying out proactive communication and outreach activities through various channels (including by traditional and online media, podcasts, social media etc.) to a broad audience, including the general public, to increase societal resilience to disinformation;
• conducting targeted communication campaigns about EDMO’s activities.
**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 SME Support Actions
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2026
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
    **112195:** 
      -         **action:** DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS - DIGITAL-SME Digital SME Support Actions
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 6000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-03
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 8
        **max Contribution:** 6000000
        **min Contribution:** 6000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-11-04
**keywords:** DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS, DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Information systems, Integration and upscaling of digital technologies and media in education, Media literacy, Social Media, Theories, techniques and tools for the identification, collection, attribution, acquisition, analysis and preservation of digital evidence
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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