FACTEUR - Emergency Response Support Grants

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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 i