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27 March 2025
The Agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-TECH-07-EDMO
Number of proposals submitted: 14
Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
Number of ineligible proposals: 4
Number of above-threshold proposals: 7
Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 8,804,417
TOPIC ID: DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-TECH-07-EDMO
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Call: Accelerating the best use of technologies (DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-TECH-07)
Type of action: DIGITAL-SME Digital SME Support Actions
Type of MGA: DIGITAL Action Grant Budget-Based [DIGITAL-AG]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 04 July 2024
Deadline dates: 21 November 2024 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
ExpectedOutcome:
Deliverables
Objective:
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 the regional hubs and a central platform and governance structure which supports and coordinates them.
The objective of this topic is to finance the work of independent regional 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 2024 and in 2025.
A 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 are carried out in full independence from third-party entities including public authorities.
Hubs will cover more than one Member State with similar media ecosystems within an EU region.
Scope:
Scope
Building on previous work done by the existing hubs, in order to comply with these objectives, the EDMO hubs will:
Conditions
1.Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout:described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries:described in section 6 of of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions:described in section 6 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion:described insection 7 of the call document
5.Evaluation and award:
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants:describedin section 10 of the call document
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The submission system is planned to be opened on the date stated on the topic header.
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