Emergency Response - Support Grants
Run by FACTEUR · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This grant helps fact checking organisations in Europe respond quickly to disinformation during crisis events and build long term capacity to handle future crises. It covers two tracks, emergency fact checking work like debunking and investigative reporting, and capacity building work like security, training and cross border cooperation. Grants are lump sums up to 15,000 euros per project at a 50% funding rate.
media journalism · civil society democracy · artificial intelligence
Who wins this
An EU or DEP associated fact checking organisation, whether a single entity or part of a consortium, that regularly publishes original fact checks and needs rapid funding to respond to or prepare for a disinformation crisis.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €15k
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- non-profit, for-profit organisation, fact-checking organisation or unit within a larger organisation
- Funding rate
- 50%
- Also required
- Organisations must be EFCSN certified or follow the European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-Checking Organisations, publish at least four original fact checking articles per month, and be based in the EU or DEP associated countries. Any organisation can receive Emergency Capacity-Building funding only once and Emergency Fact-Checking funding twice during the call, with a possible third exception for unpredictable multi-country crises. Maximum project amount is 30,000 euros and grant duration is 8 months.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech