Deadline: 14-Jun-21
Applications are now open for the IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme to provide financial support to any kind of cross-border journalistic team as long as it is not made up entirely of freelancers (they have another scheme for them).
Funding Information
- Applicants to the Investigation Support Scheme can request grants of between €5,000 and €50,000.
- The IJ4EU grant may cover any percentage of a project’s costs, up to 100 percent of the total. Co-funding is encouraged but not mandatory. Teams must declare any existing sources of funding on their application.
- To ensure that IJ4EU can fund as many high-quality projects as possible and recognising that cross-border projects don’t necessarily have to involve many countries to have an impact they encourage applicants to think in terms of the following informal tier system, which is aimed at encouraging a diversity of budget sizes:
- Tier 1: EUR 5,000 to 15,000 – For smaller, highly focused cross-border investigations
- Tier 2: EUR 15,000 to 35,000 – For cross-border investigations requiring substantial resources
- Tier 3: EUR 35,000 to 50,000 – For cross-border projects of exceptional scale and/or complexity
Eligible Topics
- Projects on all topics will be considered. This includes, but is not limited to, corruption, illicit enrichment and financial crime; security, democracy and human rights; environment and climate change; health, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible under the Investigation Support Scheme, applications must be sent by teams of journalists and/or news organizations that meet the following criteria:
- They must be based in at least two EU member states or at least one EU member state and the United Kingdom.
- Third-country team members (including those in official EU candidate countries) are welcome to take part, but they must be part of teams with members based in at least two EU member states or one EU member state plus the UK.
- Teams can comprise any combination of members — including journalists working as part of newsroom structures as well as freelancers — as long as they are not made up entirely of freelancers (in which case they should apply to the Freelancer Support Scheme). This means that to be eligible for the Investigation Support Scheme, applicant teams must include at least one news outlet, investigative journalism organisation or NGO that carries out journalistic work, or a staff member of one of these.
- The proposed project must focus on a topic of cross-border relevance.
For more information, visit https://www.investigativejournalismforeu.net/grants/investigation-support-scheme/