FACTEUR - Emergency Response Support Grants
EFCSN funds European fact-checking organisations to respond rapidly to information crises and strengthen their preparedness for future disinformation threats.
Type of projects to be funded: The call provides two types of support. Emergency Fact-Checking Grants fund rapid responses to information crises. Emergency Capacity-Building Grants support preparedness activities.
Sectors / domain: Fact-checking, journalism, disinformation response, information integrity, media resilience, crisis communication, FIMI monitoring and organisational preparedness.
Individual or consortium: Applications may be submitted by a single organisation or a consortium. An organisation may receive an Emergency Capacity-Building Grant only once during the call period and may receive an Emergency Fact-Checking Grant up to twice. For unpredictable crisis events affecting several countries, an eligible organisation may exceptionally receive a third Emergency Fact-Checking Grant.
Specific eligibility requirements: Applicants must be legal entities, either for-profit or non-profit, and must be fact-checking organisations or fact-checking teams/units within larger organisations. They must publish an average of at least four original, human-authored fact-checking articles per month. Applicants must either be EFCSN-certified or be able to demonstrate that they respect in practice the European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-Checking Organisations, including relevant transparency requirements. Organisations must be based in the European Union or a country associated with the Digital Europe Programme (DEP).
Specific topics or challenges: Projects must address information crises, defined by the call as disruptions of the information environment involving a surge in the volume and intensity of disinformation. The call distinguishes between predictable, semi-predictable and unpredictable crisis events. Supported projects may either respond directly to a crisis or build organisational readiness in advance. Particular areas include rapid fact-checking, crisis-related investigations, AI-generated disinformation, FIMI operations, monitoring and verification tools, organisational security, legal resilience, preparedness protocols, crisis communication and cross-border responses.
Projects duration: Maximum 8 months.
Budget, funding rates and payment conditions:
Funding rate: 50%.
Budget conditions / limitations: The total call budget is €450,000, divided equally between €225,000 for Emergency Fact-Checking Grants and €225,000 for Emergency Capacity-Building Grants. The maximum total project amount is €30,000, resulting in a maximum EFCSN grant of €15,000. Grants are provided as lump sums.
Payments: 50% is paid following approval of the funding request and the remaining 50% following approval of the final report.
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Closes
31/12/2027
Max funding per project
15.000€