Overview

Donor: Journalismfund.eu
Application procedure: Online Application
Donor base: Belgium
Reference number: -
Eligible applicants: Individual, Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business
Deadline: 23.10.2025

Financial details

Grant size: Small - up to $100,000
Minimum grant size: -
Total available budget: 400.000€
Funding type: Grants
Maximum grant size: -
Funding ratio: up to 100%

Sectors

  • Capacity Building
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Media & Journalism

Project Locations

  1. Europe

      Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Description

1) Objective

Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.

This grant can be awarded to cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to Europe (all the countries, not only the EU). The resulting stories must be published in at least two outlets in two different countries, at least one must be a European media. While news media and newsrooms still predominantly operate nationally, most power structures and societal and environmental problems transcend national boundaries. This grant programme is therefore aimed at cross-border teams of investigative journalists and newsrooms to investigate and document illegal, unreported and unregulated abuse of nature that involves European affairs in and outside Europe.

2) Eligibility

Cross-border teams of at least two professional journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the environment and relates to the European continent (islands included).

3) Location

Actions must take place in Europe.

4) Budget

The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported investigations will be around €400,000. The total budget for 2024 is €1,600,000. The grant can cover working time and expenses such as logistics, travel, insurance, access to legal support, translations, access to technology and data sets, etc. Next to financial support, teams can also apply for an experienced mentor to provide assistance with either the focus of the investigation or the need for competences in a specific skill.

5) Application

The following application deadline will be Thursday 3 April 2025 at 1 pm CEST (Brussels time). The next application deadline will be Thursday 24 July 2025 at 1 pm CEST (Brussels time). The last deadline in 2025 will be 23 October 2025 at 1 pm CEST (Brussels time).

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