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 19 countries are pleased to help you to find new European partners to complete your consortium and to invite you to the European News Pitch for projects that seek funding from the Creative Europe call "NEWS - JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS 2026”. Different projects from all over Europe will be presented.
You have the choice either to inform us about your European partner search and/or pitch your project.
Thursday, 11th of December 2025, 2pm-3.30pm (CET) online
Each pitch will be 5 minutes + 2-3 min. Q&A with the audience.
EXTENDED DEADLINE:
Apply with your project by Monday, 8th of December 2025, 12(noon) (CET) on this Google Form The selection of the projects to be pitched will be announced on Monday, 8th of December.
For participants who would like to take part in the audience and maybe become a partner for one of the projects, register before the 10th of December, 6pm (CET) by registering on this link: https://europacriativa-eu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UXTZtDMSS0OXisksAhJTHw#/registration
This event is 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, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain - Basque Country and Catalunya, Sweden, 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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