EU AI Media Platform – modular multilingual public-interest infrastructure for European news and audiovisual media (IA) - Apply AI

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Description

Europe

ICT & Software, Culture & Creative, Other•100% • 10M€

Open — Feb 16 (104d)

Dates & Deadlines

Publication Date

September 30, 2026

Opening Date

October 20, 2026

Application Phases

Deadline

February 16, 2027 at 05:00 PM

104 days left

Financial Details

Non-Refundable

Maximum Funding Rate

100%

Budget

10M€

Eligible Project Value

Up to 10M€

Criteria & Documents

Eligible Expenses

●Personnel Costs
●Travel costs
●Equipment costs
●Other goods, works and services costs
●Subcontracting
●Indirect Costs

Access Conditions

●Legal entities from EU Member States and Associated Countries
●Consortium must include partners from at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries
●Compliance with general and specific admissibility and eligibility criteria

Selection Criteria

●Excellence (scientific and technical merit)
●Impact (contribution to policy and partnership KPIs)
●Quality and efficiency of implementation

Mandatory Information

●Application form (Part A and Part B)
●Budget

Bonuses & Majorations

●Inclusion of low-resource European languages
●Gender-responsive design and news diversity
●Open-source development approaches
●Onboarding pathways for small/local publishers and SMEs
●Participation of cultural and heritage institutions
●Cooperation with fact-checking and integrity actors

Result Indicators

●Operational AI-enabled media infrastructure at TRL 8
●Validated multilingual and multimodal content workflows
●Number of media organisations onboarded
●Coverage of European languages
●Implementation of provenance and traceability features
●Established multi-stakeholder governance framework
●Open APIs and SDKs available for third-party integration

EU Programme Details

Call ID: HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09
Cluster: Horizontal Activities
Destination: Bridging Actions
Submission Mode: single-stage
EU Contribution: €10,000,000.00
Expected Projects: 1 project
Funding Rate Rule: Up to 70% of eligible costs for Innovation Actions (IA); up to 100% for non-profit legal entities

Funding Rate

100%

Budget

10M€

Days Left

104

Feb 16

Curated by

Marlene Faria

Eligibility

Eligible Sectors

ICT & SoftwareCulture & CreativeOther

Company Typologies

MicroSMELargePrivate non-profit entitiesPublic entities

Application Mode

Consortium / Copromotion

Action Types

Development of modular, interoperable AI-enabled media infrastructurePiloting and validation of AI-based media workflowsIntegration and scaling of existing AI media solutionsDevelopment of multilingual and multimodal content processing toolsImplementation of governance and interoperability frameworksTesting of advanced open APIs and SDKs for media platformsOnboarding and training for diverse media organisationsDevelopment of provenance and traceability features for media contentFostering collaboration among media, tech, and civil society actorsInnovation Action

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