European Union: Regional Training and Support Program to improve Quality and Professionalism in Journalism

Deadline: 2 October 2018

The European Union (EU) is currently accepting proposals for “Regional Training and Support Program to improve Quality and Professionalism in Journalism” to contribute to the promotion of free and professional media in the Western Balkans and Turkey and to enhance quality and trustworthiness of news and journalism available to citizens.

The call for proposals will support actions focusing on building new generations of young and mid-career journalists trained in quality journalism techniques and, as a direct outcome of this, enhanced publishing of quality news and investigative stories in mainstream and Public Service Media.

Results

Result 1: New generations of young and mid-career journalists trained in quality news and investigative journalism
Result 2: Enhanced production and publishing of quality news and investigative stories in mainstream and Public Service Media
Result 3: Enhanced local capacity for training providers in quality news and investigative journalism
Result 4: Standards of quality journalism consolidated through a regional EU award scheme for quality news and investigative journalism

Funding Information

Minimum amount: EUR 1.700.000,00 (at least EUR 210.000 for award prizes)
Maximum amount: EUR 2.000.000,00 (at least EUR 210.000 for award prizes)

Eligibility Criteria

Lead applicant
- In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
  - Be a legal person
  - Be non-profit-making
  - Be a civil society organisation (CSO) or an academic organisation or a media organisation or a representative network of academia, media and CSOs working on a theme of relevance to this Call for Proposals. For the purpose of the present call for proposals, the following types of organisations are eligible: training providers, journalism schools, universities, media institutes, non-commercial media outlets, media CSOs, journalist professional associations, journalist trade unions
  - Be established in a Beneficiary under the Instrument of Pre-accession Assistance (IPA)
  - Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with their co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
- Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations as mentioned on the website.
Co-applicant(s)
- Mandatory co-applicants:
  - Civil society, academic and media organisations or representative networks of CSOs, media and academia from a minimum of 4 different IPA Beneficiaries. Applicants and Co-applicants must thus as a minimum represent civil society, academic and media organisations from at least five (5) different IPA Beneficiaries in the Western Balkans and Turkey.
- Optional co-applicants:
  - Civil society, academic and media organisations or representative networks of CSOs, media and academia established in an EU Member State.
  - For British co-applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. If the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible to participate) or be required to leave the project.
Affiliated entities
- The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies). Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
  - Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link. Entities affiliated to applicant may hence be:
    - Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
    - Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
    - Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
- Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.