Platformă media EU cu inteligență artificială, infrastructură modulară multilingvă de interes public pentru știri europene și media audiovizuală

Orizont Europa

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Banii finanțează dezvoltarea unei infrastructuri europene cu inteligență artificială care să sprijine platforme media de interes public, cu traducere, clasificare și distribuție multilingvă de știri și conținut audiovizual. Se plătește cercetarea, dezvoltarea și testarea în condiții reale a componentelor AI reutilizabile, a mecanismelor de guvernanță și a soluțiilor deschise tip API și SDK. Pot aplica organizații media, furnizori de tehnologie AI și de limbaj, dezvoltatori de platforme, instituții culturale și organizații din societatea civilă care se pot reuni pentru a construi și valida piloți operaționali.

Grant per proiect

10.000.000 la 10.000.000 EUR

Buget total apel

10.000.000 EUR

Se deschide

20.10.2026

Tip de acțiune

HORIZON Innovation Actions

Eligibilitate România

Organizațiile din România pot aplica

Identificator apel

HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09

Sursă

Portalul UE pentru finanțări (apeluri tematice)

Expected Outcome:The project will support the development of a modular, trustworthy and interoperable AI-enabled infrastructure enabling pan-European public-interest media platform(s) to make available real time news and information from professional media outlets across the EU and associated countries to wider audiences[1]. It will harness AI to translate, process and distribute content for relevant channels through classification, recognition, linguistic analysis, translation and other multimodal workflows. It will also enable prototypic content creation and testing of immersive and innovation-inspired media experiences consistent with a public-interest mission for different age groups, taking into account gender-responsive design and promoting news diversity. Overall, it will improve multilingual access, including low-resource European languages, strengthen media pluralism and resilience for public service media and professional media outlets, content creators and independent publishers, and embed trust, provenance and accountability by design.The concrete expected outcomes are:Reliable, modular and interoperable infrastructure with validated service levels and sustainability pathways, integrating AI-based components that support multilingual and multimodal media workflows including audiovisual processing and adaptation workflows, relevant metadata interoperability for broadcast and streaming contexts, social-media-facing interaction and adaptive, personalised, and interactive content experiences (modular journalism) catering for diverse user needs.Content in multiple languages and onboarding conditions and equal access for all types of media organisations, from public broadcasters to small local publishers, SMEs, cultural institutions and civil society groups.Built-in safety, transparency and governance features, fair human-data interactions (e.g., legibility, agency, negotiability), traceability of key decisions, open evaluation methods, and validated governance and interoperability frameworks.Reliable tracking of content origins through provenance information, attribution metadata and verification signals. Scope:This topic will support pilots for AI-enabled media infrastructures, fostering research and innovation in the European media sector. It should deliver innovative solutions by consolidating, integrating and validating reusable AI-enabled infrastructure components and governance arrangements of platform pilots[2] for pan-European public-interest media platform(s), making use, where appropriate, of European AI infrastructure and building on results from relevant Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and pilot actions, in preparation for wider scale-up from 2028 onward. The action will encourage the development, testing and improvement of innovative solutions that respond to the needs of the media ecosystem. Proposals should integrate and scale up relevant results and move existing pilots towards operational validation in real-word conditions against declared service levels, including appropriate resilience, lifecycle-managed storage, a KPI framework and independent evaluation, in line with Union standards, and observability, traceability and content provenance by design. AI components should follow transparent and accountable practices, including documentation, explainability, logging and evaluation, to enable audit, redress and effective oversight.The project should demonstrate a credible pathway towards broad European language coverage, accessibility and support for relevant emerging formats, with a credible post-grant sustainability approach and, where relevant, onboarding, training and pilot cohorts. It should foster participation of media organisations by addressing industry needs, including bridging tools and common formats linking editorial workflows and platform technologies (e.g. ingestion, aggregation, curation, metadata exchange, rights and licensing parameters, attribution and provenance information). The project should present a mechanism to bring together public and private media outlets and publishers, broadcasters, AI and language-technology providers, platform developers, content creators and social media actors, fact-checking and integrity actors, and rights-management organisations. Where relevant, cultural and heritage institutions and civil society organisations should also be involved. The infrastructure should test advanced open APIs solutions and demonstrate their technical viability. Moreover, the infrastructure should provide SDKs and documentation to enable integration with multiple front ends and third-party environments, onboarding pathways for smaller players, and where relevant, open-source development approaches. This includes social-media-facing interaction and referral functions, and, AI companion-style interactions via an API. Collective contextualisation services, facilitation of user onboarding and support for cooperation, the embedding of robust provenance safeguards for synthetic or manipulated content with clear redress paths and where relevant, cooperation with fact-checking and integrity actors, may equally be considered. The project should contribute to an existing or establish a structured multi-stakeholder governance framework including structured exchanges with relevant stakeholders and related initiatives through an appropriate coordination mechanism. Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projectsActivities are expected to start at TRL 6 and achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project, see General Annex B.[1] COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Apply AI Strategy, 2.10. Cultural and creative sectors, and media; Communication on the European Democracy Shield[2] Such as “Supporting multilingual access to trusted news and public-interest information across Europe”

General conditions1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layoutdescribed in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.2. Eligible countriesdescribed in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.3. Other Eligibility ConditionsSubject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.Described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusiondescribed in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholdsdescribed in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processesdescribed in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreementdescribed in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.6. Legal and financial set-up of the grantsdescribed in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.Specific conditions described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme] Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA): Application form templates - the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission SystemPlease use the application form that you will find in the Submission SystemStandard application form (HE RIA, IA)Evaluation form templates, will be used with the necessary adaptationsStandard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)GuidanceHE Programme GuideModel Grant Agreements (MGA)HE MGAAdditional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-1. General IntroductionHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 - 14. Horizontal ActivitiesHE Main Work Programme 2026-2027-15. General AnnexesHE Programme GuideHE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity AssessmentEU Grants AGA, Annotated Model Grant AgreementFunding & Tenders Portal Online ManualFunding & Tenders Portal Terms and ConditionsFunding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

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