European Parliament awareness promotion

• Television
• European Parliament
• conferences
• radio

One of the key objectives of DG Information is to increase awareness of the European Parliament's role, how it operates and the positions it adopts, amongst two target audiences:

• the media, namely the press, radio and television; national, regional and local media in the Member States,
• the general public and opinion-formers (associations, civil society, locally elected representatives etc.).

To this end financial assistance is offered for activities that involve contributing to these objectives and which fall within one of the four specific themes published.

The European Parliament has Information Offices in each Member-State capital city as well as five satellite offices, these offices will be closely involved with the projects which are in receipt of a grant from DG Information, and will follow the development of the projects. Only projects being held in one or more of the Member-States of the European Union may be considered under this funding programme.

The four themes for this year's grants are:

• Co-financing informative and awareness-raising Television programmes with the central theme of the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome, with special emphasis on the European Parliament.
• Co-financing informative and awareness-raising Radio programmes with the central theme of the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Treaty of Rome, with special emphasis on the European Parliament.
• Support to public debates, conferences or seminars whose main theme will be the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome.
• Support to large-scale events, including fairs and exhibitions with a European theme which celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome.

Applications are open to anyone from the 25 EU member states. The overall budget available this year is €5 million. Projects will receive up to 50% of their costs, ranging from a minimum grant of €50,000 and a maximum €300,000.

The closing date for applications is 27 October.

For more information please visit the DG Information website

Contact persons for this Call for Proposals:
D. Hoar-Devesse hoar@europarl.europa.eu
S. Palmeri salvatore.palmeri@europarl.europa.eu