MOSAIC paves the way for a European multilingual information space
The MOSAIC pilot project has built and tested technology so media organisations can share content across language borders.
Europe's information space no longer has to stop at the language border. This is the key finding of the EU-funded MOSAIC pilot project, which has shown that content such as a Slovenian documentary or a Catalan investigation can reach audiences right across Europe. Over 18 months, an 11-partner European consortium built and tested the technology needed to make this possible.
The federated architecture of this pilot project allows media organisations to share and enrich each other's content while retaining full ownership and control over their own material.
The project delivered AI-powered transcription, translation and subtitling across eight languages, including under-resourced languages such as Catalan, Slovenian and Estonian, together with multimodal search across archive material and automated metadata enrichment. Pilots were carried out with public and private broadcasters in six EU Member States.
These results are particularly timely. They support the objectives of the European Democracy Shield and the realisation of the Apply AI Strategy Media Flagship, helping to strengthen access to trustworthy, pluralistic and multilingual information across Europe and contributing to a more resilient public information space.
They also feed directly into a new call for proposals for the next phase of the European TV and Video News Portal, a citizen-facing service aimed at supporting multilingual access to trusted news and public-interest information across Europe.
Building on these results, four priorities have been identified for future work:
- Develop services around user needs: continued pilot deployments should generate evidence on how citizens, journalists and broadcasters use these services, so that development stays aligned with real needs.
- Prioritise trust and quality content: future services should embed robust editorial standards, transparent provenance and effective quality safeguards so that citizens can confidently identify and access trustworthy, high-quality public-interest information.
- Connect: future initiatives should build on and interconnect with existing efforts, such as ChatEurope and the European Language Data Space.
- Shared governance principles, transparent decision-making and clearly defined responsibilities should be established early on, to maximise efficiency.
