Deadline: 25-Aug-22
Journalismfund.eu Local (Pilot) is now open to address the shortage of local independent journalism by awarding grants to local investigative journalistic projects in Belgium and the Netherlands and by stimulating the cross-border collaboration.
Cities in Belgium and the Netherlands could mutually strengthen each other (e.g. by forming each other’s benchmark) and as such increase the impact of the supported publications.
This pilot aims at strengthening local cross-border, independent and investigative journalism in order to increase the availability of qualitative local news, and at making citizens more aware of local – and often interrelated and global – issues and possible solutions. As such it aims to contribute to citizens’ critical thinking, well-informed debates/decisions and to foster civic engagement.
Objectives
The execution, monitoring and evaluation of this pilot will enable to determine the pilot project’s effectiveness and whether further steps need to be taken towards the ultimate objectives:
- the setup of a Local Cross-Border Investigative Journalism grant programme across Europe, and
- establishing a European network of local (investigative) journalists.
Funding Information
Up to €52,000 available.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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 unrealisable 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 conditions1 to obtain a grant.
For more information, visit https://www.journalismfund.eu/journalismfundeu-local-pilot