Deadline: 2 May 2024
Nominations are open for the IJ4EU fund’s annual award celebrating excellence in European cross-border investigative journalism.
IJ4EU (Investigative Journalism for Europe) is a fund supporting cross-border investigative journalism in and around the European Union. They provide grants to teams of journalists or news organisations in Europe investigating topics of public interest.
IJ4EU’s mission is to strengthen the watchdog role of investigative journalism in Europe. Its focus on supporting cross-border projects acknowledges the increasingly transnational nature of public-interest stories.
Its purpose is to foster and strengthen collaboration among European journalists and newsrooms by providing them with grant funding, mentoring, training, expert support and networking opportunities. It also seeks to raise the value of and incentivise quality investigative journalism and build trust in the Fourth Estate.
The IJ4EU fund is managed by a consortium of four organisations: the International Press Institute (IPI), the European Journalism Centre (EJC), the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and Arena for Journalism in Europe (Arena).
Funding Information
- Three cash prizes of €5,000 are available for investigative teams that have pushed the boundaries in tackling transnational stories of public interest.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone is welcome to nominate investigative projects, including their own journalistic work, as long as the projects were published via a credible medium (e.g. print, broadcast television or radio, online, documentary film, multimedia etc.) Investigations must have been published between 1 October 2022 and 31 December 2023.
- The eligibility criteria are as follows:
- The award is open to cross-border investigations published via any credible medium (e.g. print, broadcast television or radio, online, documentary film, multimedia etc.).
- Nominated investigations must have been published between 1 October 2022 and 31 December 2023.
- Nominated investigations must involve journalists based in at least two European countries that have signed up to the full cross-sectoral strand of the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, which provides core funding for IJ4EU. Eligible countries include all 27 EU member states and the following non-EU countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Ukraine.
- Nominated investigations need to highlight issues of common interest for European countries, and be seen to have strengthened European media.
- Nominated investigations may have been published in any language. However, for investigations not published in English, a translation in English of the core investigation/summary must be provided.
- Nominations must include any significant challenge to the honesty, accuracy or fairness of an entry, such as published letters, corrections, retractions as well as responses by the relevant newspaper or website.
For more information, visit ECPMF.
