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Horizon Europe call for proposals on “identifying user-focused solutions to support news media freedom” is sponsored by European Commission (Horizon Europe). This Horizon Europe call aims to identify user-focused solutions to support news media freedom. It falls under the broader objective of supporting a free, diverse, and pluralistic media environment.
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There are still important quantitative and qualitative data gaps at European level that can help the news media sectors address these concerns, including accurate diagnoses of the challenges and opportunities for the news sectors.
The Commission’s 2023 European Media Industry Outlook[[ The European Media Industry Outlook | Shaping Europe’s digital future ]] signalled that “the future competitiveness of this sector will depend on its capacity to invest and innovate, as well as to manage and monetise content and data”.
Applicants are invited to contribute to enhancing innovation across the news media sectors, in particular by addressing data gaps, researching inspirational examples of scalable models and testing industrial models that can advance financial independence as well as editorial independence.
This should include areas and aspects such as: a) providing comparable European consumer data, market data and models to analyse audience behaviour (including audience measurement tools) across societal groups and across Europe, so as to help news media improve their relevance, editorial quality, distribution channels and business models (including emerging formats, mediums, and technologies such as AI and XR); b) identification of market failures in news sectors of specific relevance to democracy, such as local media and investigative journalism, mapping of priority regions and/or themes, identification and analysis of business models that can address them; c) development, prototyping and testing of small-scale innovative user-centric business models that foster the involvement of citizens in high quality information production, monetisation, distribution and consumption (including community-based, local and accessible solutions, either physical or online); d) mapping and development of audience measurement systems, concrete suggestions to increase interoperability of tools and systems around common standards, and proposals for metadata taxonomies, to federate the news sectors and improve their negotiation power vis-à-vis tech and advertising companies.
e) sharing of conclusions and concrete, hands-on action plans and practices for the industry and policy makers, through regular consultation, interactive sessions, active communication, etc. bring together academia (including from SSH disciplines), civil society organisations and multiple news sectors representatives (including influencers and other content creators); where applicable, leverage the data and services available through European Research Infrastructures federated under the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), as well as data from relevant Data Spaces; ensure that the data produced in the context of this topic is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable); seek collaboration whenever possible with relevant projects selected under previous EU-funded calls, such as the Horizon 2020 call topic TRANSFORMATIONS-10-2020 – “Evolving European media landscapes and Europeanisation” or the Horizon Europe one HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01-06 – “Media for democracy – democratic media”.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Organisations and consortia in EU Member States and associated countries. More information will be available during the Horizon Europe Cluster 2 infoday of 26 March 2026. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Applications for Horizon Europe call for proposals on “identifying user-focused solutions to support news media freedom” are due September 23, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Horizon Europe call for proposals on “identifying user-focused solutions to support news media freedom” is funded by European Commission (Horizon Europe). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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