Emergency Response - Microgrants for Ecosystem Development
Run by FACTEUR · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This is a microgrant scheme funding fact checking organisations to quickly document and share information about disinformation during crisis events in Europe. It pays for short fact sheets on emerging disinformation narratives and longer case studies analysing how organisations responded to crisis events. Grants are small lump sums meant to help the fact checking community learn from and respond faster to cross border disinformation.
media journalism · civil society democracy · public health
Who wins this
An EFCSN certified fact checking organisation or unit based in the EU or a DEP associated country that regularly publishes fact checks and wants quick funding to document a disinformation surge tied to a crisis event.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €4k
- 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 legal entity, fact-checking organisation or unit
- Funding rate
- 50%
- Also required
- Applicants must be EFCSN certified fact checking organisations based in the EU or DEP associated countries, publish at least four human authored fact checking articles per month, and the crisis event covered must occur during the call period, with grants capped at 1000 euros for fact sheets and 3500 euros for case studies, paid as lump sums after delivery.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech