The objective of this call is to support the EU strategy to tackle disinformation and complement European Digital Media Observatory’s activities by providing funding to specific research projects on disinformation. Such projects, which include fact-checking and analysis of online propagation patterns, should be carried out by expert teams with a specific knowledge of information and media environments in one or more Member States.

Applicants are expected to commit that they will actively contribute to EDMO’s activities by focusing on social and political themes and narratives targeted by disinformation campaigns, which fit with the research agenda that European Digital Media Observatory will develop i