FACTEUR - Emergency Response Microgrants for Ecosystem Development

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Type of projects to be funded: The call supports two specific types of activities. Fact-sheets should provide brief English-language overviews of the most prevalent disinformation narratives and claims emerging during ongoing semi-predictable or unpredictable crisis events that may have a cross-border impact. Case studies should provide post-crisis analyses documenting disinformation surges, the actions taken by fact-checkers and the lessons learned, so that knowledge and experience can be shared across the fact-checking community. Sectors / domain: Fact-checking, journalism, disinformation monitoring, information integrity, crisis response, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) and cross-border knowledge sharing. Individual or consortium: The call is open to single applicants only, eligible organisations may receive funding for fact-sheets and case studies multiple times. Specific eligibility requirements: Applicants must be legal entities, either for-profit or non-profit, and must be EFCSN-certified fact-checking organisations. They must operate as a fact-checking organisation or as a fact-checking team/unit within a larger organisation and publish an average of at least four human-authored fact-checking articles per month. Applicants must be based in the European Union or a country associated with the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). Specific topics or challenges: The call specifically addresses semi-predictable and unpredictable information crises charac