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Research Support Framework for Situational Awareness on information integrity

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Next cut-off
01 Oct '26
in 25 days
Call budget
€6.0M
across every grant here
Grants expected
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not published for this call
Funding rate
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not published, read the conditions

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

At a general level, the project should achieve a strong, visible and recognised impact in scaling, facilitating and accelerating research and analytical efforts focussing on the information environment and information integrity.

The main outcomes of the awarded project will be:

  • The technical solutions created or supported
  • The insights generated from supported research and monitoring projects
  • The proof of concept and lessons learnt for the support of shared infrastructures to support research on the information environment

Project applications will formulate their own deliverables in accordance with their needs analyses and proposed means to address them. At the minimum, deliverables should include:

  • A suite or network of solutions capable of addressing Specific Objectives 1 and 2 (c.f. section 2 ‘Scope – Specific Objectives 1 and 2’)
  • A methodology and dissemination plan for creating access to the created resources (c.f. section 2 ‘Scope – Specific Objective 3)
  • A sub-granting methodology in line with the scope set forth in the section above (c.f. section 2 ‘Scope – Specific Objective 5’)
  • A final report detailing lessons learnt and identifying clear paths for future actions

Objective:

The overarching objective of this action is as follows:

Creating a common research framework with the necessary infrastructure to enable advanced research and analysis on information integrity in the EU.

In order to achieve this overall objective, the action rests on the following specific objectives:

  • Securing or setting up necessary infrastructure, comprising both hardware and software capacities, needed for advanced research on information integrity, that can be accessed by third parties across the EU

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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