Call: Pilot Project on Media councils in the digital age

Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Pilot Project on Media councils in the digital age

In order to protect media freedom and pluralism and to promote professionalism in journalistic content, the Pilot Project will seek to further support the transition of media self-regulatory bodies to the online world. It will also help them engage in discussions with internet intermediaries and other internet media stakeholders. Through exchanges of best practices, the project will help bringing clarity on how to achieve, in a converged media environment, the goals of media self-regulation. The following core actions to be carried out by the beneficiary are described in detail in the Call for Proposals document:

a) Maintenance and development of the database on media self-regulatory bodies;

b) Exchange of best practices;

c) Strengthening of the pan-EU Working Group representing media self-regulatory bodies;

d) Support to new media councils;

e) Global dialogue.