Citizen-Facing European TV and Video News Portal
Pays one team up to EUR 5.5 million to build a pan-European AI media backbone that streams, translates and makes discoverable trusted TV and video news from across the EU.
The call explicitly steers away from ordinary engagement-optimised recommendation systems: search, navigation and recommendation features must be built on transparent design principles that improve cross-border visibility and pluralism, not maximise engagement, and must avoid discriminatory outcomes. The underlying language gap it targets is specific: beyond English, German, French and Spanish, mo…
The Commission wants a pilot pan-European infrastructure — a shared backbone of reusable services, interfaces and APIs — that ingests, pools, processes and streams professional news and public-interest video content across EU languages, in near-real time. It should use AI for transcription, translation, subtitling and related processing, plus multilingual search and cross-border discovery, so audiences can find and understand trusted news from other Member States.
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