Deadline: 12-May-22
Applications are now open for the Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism to advance investigative journalism in Dutch-language media in Belgium.
The programme awards grants to distinctive journalistic projects. The grant gives experienced as well as young journalists the chance to execute their investigative ideas and by doing so, contribute to quality investigative journalism in Flanders.
The grant programme – established in 1998 – has resided under the wings of Journalismfund.EU since 2013. The programme is subsidized by the Flemish Government and aims to keep the memory of Pascal Decroos alive and to continue his life’s work. The Fund was set up in 1998 by family, close friends, and colleagues of Decroos to commemorate and further the legacy of the Belgian journalist. What they stand for is what Pascal Decroos stood for in word and deed. He was dedicated to investigative journalism. He was committed to creating opportunities to develop young journalistic talent and had the ability to bring people from different facets of society to dialogue and work together.
Objectives
- The aim of the Grant Programmes of Journalismfund.EU is facilitating investigative, cross-border, and independent journalism in order to promote democracy in Europe by connecting donors and journalists without endangering the journalists’ independence.
Funding Information
- In 2022, there is €240,000 to distribute over four application rounds, which means approx. €60,000 per round. The money comes from the Flemish government.
Eligibility Criteria
- They encourage starters as well as experienced journalists to apply.
- The results of the research must be published in a Dutch-language medium in Belgium.
- Only natural persons are eligible for a grant. Depending on the Grant Programme restrictions can be made based on the residency of the applicant(s).
- The applicant(s) must be working as professional journalists. Furthermore, references from individuals (editors, publishers, journalists, professors) and/or references to earlier work are essential. Journalismfund.EU reserves the right to contact references (while respecting the confidentiality of the proposal).
- Students are not eligible in all Grant Programmes.
- Journalists who were previously allocated a Journalismfund.EU grant can reapply, but the jury can include the result of previous grants in their evaluation of the new application.
- The applicant(s) must demonstrate convincingly that the project would be unrealizable without a grant. In other words, the reason why the applicant is appealing to Journalismfund.EU should be explained.
- The applicant(s) should be able to demonstrate the feasibility of the project.
- A basic commitment in the form of a ‘Letter of Intent to publish the product from a news editor is one of the conditions to obtain a grant.
For more information, visit Journalismfund.eu.
For more information, visit https://www.journalismfund.eu/pascal-decroos-fund