Euromedia Ownership Monitor 2025 (EurOMo 2025)

Project/agreement No.

LC-03617323

Project funding

2 667 916.00 EUR, of which RSU’s share is 15697 EUR

Project manager

prof. Dr.sc.soc. Anda Rožukalne

Project realization

01.01.2025. - 31.12.2025.

Aim

“Euromedia Ownership Monitor 2025” (EurOMo 2025) is a project to meet the European Commission's objective of increasing transparency in the ownership and control of news media. The flagship of the Monitor is a searchable database of media owners from all 27 EU countries. The project also offers other resources, such as country reports, risk assessments and media literacy toolkits.

Description

This project aims to update the existing databases and risk assessments of the pilot Euromedia Ownership Monitor as well as increase its media outlets database, including channels and accounts on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) that are relevant for news use in each EU Member State (MS).

At the end of this project, we will present a website with a fully updated and expanded database of opinion-shaping media outlets in each MS, a fully updated database of national laws pertinent to media ownership transparency, narrative country reports, interactive graphics showing national media ownership structures and cross-country media activity, and assessment of risks to transparency in ownership and control stemming from the ownership structure, managerial arrangements, economic conditions, distribution channels and regulatory framework of each country. This will provide policymakers and the broader public with solid evidence of the extent of media ownership transparency in the EU.

Lead Partner

Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria)

Project Partners

Rīga Stradiņš University (Latvia), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Media 21 Foundation (Bulgaria), Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus), Nadační fond nezávislé žurnalistiky (Check Republik), Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institute (Germany), Roskilde University (Denmark), Tartu Ülikool (Estonia), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Tampereen korkeakoulusaatio sr (Finland), Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Fakultet Politickih Znanosti- (Croatia), Dublin City University (Ireland), Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza" (Italy), Vilnius University (Lithuania), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (Luxembourg), L-Università ta' Malta (Malta), Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland), Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (Romania), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), MEMO’98 (Slovakia), UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (Slovenia).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Creative Europe programme under Grant Agreement No LC-03617323.