The EU is launching a call for proposals for European Digital Media Observatory Hubs (DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS) under the Digital Europe Programme. Information and procedures on how to apply can be found in the EU Funding and Tender Portal.
The 6th yearly call is open for cross-border, collaborative proposals between news media organisations focusing on innovative business models and/or journalistic projects across Europe.
Commission published a call for proposals to raise awareness among young Europeans about information integrity risks on social media, bolstering media literacy skills.
The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is a multidisciplinary community, serving as a collaborative platform for fact-checkers, researchers and media literacy experts.
Project results are expected to contribute to at least one of the following expected outcomes: Realistic, creative and innovative characters, user-tailored artefacts, and Virtual Worlds for a better immersion and significantly improved user experience; Smart digital assistants and 3D chatbots for a safe and inclusive navigation.
The aim of this topic is to advance the evolution of the internet towards open and interoperable Web 4.0 enabling Virtual Worlds, ensuring seamless user experience navigating across platforms by increasing the take up of digital commons technologies and other Open Source solutions in Europe. The action will thus leverage the strong and active community of European Open Source innovators that can contribute to relevant digital commons to deliver on key features of virtual worlds.
Proposals are expected to contribute to developing core technologies for Virtual Worlds, with a focus on better, more realistic and more performant interaction and immersion, at application and components levels. The following outcomes are expected to contribute to: Better and more realistic immersion through multimodal interaction; Innovative photonics technologies for projection, sensing and perception in virtual worlds.
This call for proposals (CNECT/2025/4176180), with a budget of EUR 13.5 million, aims to support independent pan European reporting on EU affairs by EU media outlets.
