FACTEUR - Database Grants

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Type of projects to be funded: The call supports fact-checking organisations in contributing their full-text fact-checks and associated data to a centralised European fact-check database developed by the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) and its partners. Funded activities include setting up the technical infrastructure and workflows required to ingest fact-checks into the database, reviewing and correcting AI-generated metadata, granting the necessary data licensing rights to EFCSN under fair and reasonable conditions, and promoting the database. Sectors / domain: Fact-checking, information integrity, counter-disinformation, media and journalism, data infrastructure and fact-check data sharing. Individual or consortium: Applications must be submitted by a single applicant. Specific eligibility requirements: Applicants must be a legal entity, either for-profit or non-profit, and must be a fact-checking organisation or a fact-checking team/unit within a larger organisation. Applicants must publish an average of at least four human-authored fact-checking articles per month. Their editorial work must have a substantial and demonstrable focus on a Council of Europe member country, Kosovo, Belarus or Russia. Applicants must also be EFCSN-certified fact-checking organisations. The applying organisation must be based in the European Union or a country associated with the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). Specific topics or challenges: The call is focused specifically on