Deadline: 12-Jun-22
The European Federation for Science Journalism (EFSJ), in partnership with the BNP Paribas Foundation, is pleased to announce the third edition of the climate investigation grant for European science journalists.
The purpose of this grant is to encourage ambitious field investigations focused on understanding of the climate, adaptation to climate change, and different mitigation strategies.
The winner(s) will be announced at the European Conference for Science Journalists on July 13th 2022, during the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
Funding Information
Depending on applications received, one to three projects may be awarded grants, up to a total of 12,000 euros.
Conditions for Participation
- Conditions concerning the author and his or her potential co-authors
- A project may be carried out by one author, but the jury favours projects carried out by various co-authors, especially from different countries. In such cases, a referent author must be designated for communications with EFSJ and its partners.
- To compete for the climate investigation grant, the author or the referent author if the project concerns several co-authors, must be a European professional journalist.
- The author can only participate in one application per edition. A co-author cannot withdraw or be withdrawn from a project admitted to pre-selection, and especially not once awarded.
- Conditions relating to the project
- The climate investigation grant can only be awarded to projects. It is not accessible to works which are already completed or being finalised. If the project is carried out by several co-authors, it is the subject of a single application on which all the co-authors must expressly appear.
- Projects must be presented and addressed exclusively by the authors. Applications filed directly by a legal person (company, collective, association) will not be considered.
Criteria
- The applicants must be professional journalists (print, radio, TV, web), and be based in Europe (EU and all other countries in Europe).
- Projects must be submitted by their authors, no follow-up will be given to requests filed by an organization.
- This is an investigative grant: projects already published cannot be awarded grants.
- The jury, composed of journalists and scientists, will view transnational and transmedia collaborative projects particularly favourably.
- The application but must be submitted to the jury in English.
- A letter of support from a media organization is strongly recommended.
For more information, visit https://efsj.eu/climategrant/