DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-EDMO-HUBS

European Digital Media observatory (EDMO) - National and multinational hubs -

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Expected Outcome:
  • At the end of the actions, a network of existing and newly established research hubs will be active across the EU under the coordination of EDMO.
  • Networks of experts and organisations linked to the hubs will be part of a European multidisciplinary community which will actively detect, analyse and expose disinformation campaigns in Europe.
  • Each hub will have produced or contribute to at least 100 fact-checks, 20 investigations and reports on disinformation campaigns and shared them through EDMO.
  • Each hub will have established at least 10 tailor-made media literacy programs in Member States and produced reports (at least 1 per year) regarding the implementation and effectiveness of online platforms policies to tackle disinformation.
Objective:

The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) has been created with the aim of supporting an independent multidisciplinary community to tackle the phenomenon of disinformation. EDMO is composed of a central platform and governance which support and coordinate the work of the EDMO national/multinational hubs.

The objective of this topic is to finance the work of independent national /multinational hubs for analysis of digital media ecosystems in order to ensure the coverage of geographical areas covered by the EDMO hubs for which the funding is ending at the end of 2023 and in 2024.

A national/multinational hub involves organisations active in one or several Member State(s), that will provide specific knowledge of local information environments so as to strengthen the detection and analysis of disinformation campaigns, improve public awareness, and design effective responses relevant for national audiences. The activities of the hubs should be independent from any public authority.

These national/multinational centres will focus their activities on emerging digital media vulnerabilities and disinformation campaigns, which are of special relevance within the territory and/or linguistic area in which they will operate. Multinational hubs will cover more than one Member State with similar media ecosystems within an EU region.

Scope:

Support will be provided to:

  • Support the operations of an independent national or multinational hubs pulling together a national/multinational multidisciplinary community composed of academic researchers, fact-checkers, open-source investigation organisations, media practitioners and other relevant stakeholders in order to create a network capable of quickly detecting and analysing disinformation campaigns, as well as producing content to support national and local media and inform about regarding emerging harmful disinformation campaigns. They will work in cooperation with EDMO and contribute to its activities providing fact-checks, media literacy materials, scientific articles, surveys on disinformation trends, situational analyses and assessments of online platforms’ policies to address disinformation-related harms.
  • Detect, analyse, and disclose disinformation campaigns at national, multinational and EU level, and their impact on society and democracy. To this end hubs will analyse relevant actors, vectors, tools, methods, dissemination dynamics, and targets of disinformation campaigns in coordination with EDMO. Hubs will monitor the evolution of disinformation-related harms on relevant audiences. Each hub will also support a regular assessment of the impact of relevant disinformation campaigns on society and democratic processes, as well as the effectiveness of the policies set out by online platforms to counter various disinformation phenomena. In addition, the hubs will actively participate to the EDMO joint activities of fact-checking and research and promptly react to EDMO requests linked to emerging disinformation issues.
  • Create tailor-made media literacy campaigns for the covered territory or linguistic area. Hubs will leverage on the exchange of good practices and materials coordinated by EDMO and contribute to the EDMO repositories with newly created educational and training materials.
  • Cooperate with national authorities for the monitoring of online platforms’ policies and digital media ecosystem in the territory or linguistic area covered by the proposal. In particular, they will provide relevant insights which might help competent national authorities, including the audio-visual regulator(s), monitoring the implementation of the Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation by its signatories.

News flashes

2024-01-15
The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call. The results of the evaluation are as follows: DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-NETWORK-OF-SICs Number of proposals submitted: 30Number of inadmissible proposals: 0Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 28Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 21,486,284 DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-EDMO-HUBS Number of proposals submitted: 11Number of inadmissible proposals: 3Number of ineligible proposals: 0Number of above-threshold proposals: 8Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 9,555,006.08
2023-09-27
A total of 41 proposals were submitted under this call.    Below is the number of proposals submitted per topic: DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-EDMO-HUBS - 11 DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-NETWORK-OF-SICs - 30
2023-09-27

 A total of 11 proposals were submitted under this call for the topic: DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-EDMO-HUBS - European Digital Media observatory (EDMO) - National and multinational hubs.

2023-05-11
The submission session is now available for: DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-NETWORK-OF-SICs(DIGITAL-SIMPLE), DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04-EDMO-HUBS(DIGITAL-SME)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Publication date: 2023-04-27 (2 years ago)
Opening date: 2023-05-11 (2 years ago)
Closing date: 2023-09-26 (1 year ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 10000000
Expected grants: 7
News flashes

This call topic has been appended 4 times by the EC with news.

  • 2024-01-15
    the commission has now completed the eva...
  • 2023-09-27
    a total of 41 proposals were submitted u...
  • 2023-09-27
     a total of 11 proposals were submi...
  • 2023-05-11
    the submission session is now available...
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DIGITAL-2023-DEPLOY-04

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