The NEWS - Journalism Partnerships calls 2026 of the crossectoral strand of the Creative Europe program of the European Union aim to support projects that address one of the following two topics:
Topic 1. “Journalism Partnerships - Collaborations” aims to support the economical sustainability of news media. It supports cross-border media collaborations focusing, among other aspects, on the resilience of news media organisations. This support shall foster media transformation, trustworthy reporting and skills for news media professionals, for instance by developing new business models and media production standards.
Topic 2. “Journalism Partnerships - Pluralism”. Besides a purely economic aspect, independent media contribute to upholding the essential principles of media freedom and pluralism. This topic seeks to protect news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, investigative journalism and organisations delivering public interest news. Support will target organisations with experience in media to put in cascading grants (i.e. regranting / support to third parties).
The Creative Europe Desks from 22 countries are pleased to help you to find new European partners to complete your consortium and to invite you share your ideas and partner search in this data base.
The Creative Europe Desks from 23 countries invite you to display your project in the data base by the Creative Europe Desks for partner search. This data base will stay open until the closing of the call (4th of February 2026).
For your information, the Creative Europe Desks have proposed a online pitching session on the 11th of December 2025, during which 8 projects applying to the topics « Collaboration » and « Pluralism » of the NEWS-JP call have been presented. The video replay is accessible on this non public link: https://youtu.be/xLUDbM0Dg08
To find out more about your organisation and the subjects you would like to work on, please answer the following questions.
This event and this data base have been brought to you by Creative Europe Desks from Belgium - Flanders & Wallonie-Bruxelles, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany - Berlin Brandenburg, Hamburg, Munich and NRW, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain - Basque Country and Catalunya, Sweden and Ukraine in partnership with the European Commission and the European Executive Agency EACEA.
The event will be in English.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this event and to hear more about your projects.
Kind regards,
The Creative Europe Desks network
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