Deadline: 31 March 2024
The Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) is accepting applications for the Investigation Support Scheme to provide financial support to cross-border journalistic teams working on investigations of public interest in Europe.
Topics
- Projects on all topics will be considered. This includes, but is not limited to, corruption, illicit enrichment and financial crime; security; democracy; human rights; the environment and climate change; migration and public health.
Funding Information
- Applicants to the Investigation Support Scheme can request grants of between €5,000 and €50,000.
- 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
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible under the Investigation Support Scheme, applications must be sent by teams of journalists and/or news organisations that meet the following criteria:
- Teams must have members 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.
- Eligibility is based on residency (where you live and work) and not nationality (citizenship).
- Team members based in countries anywhere else in the world are welcome to participate, but they must be part of teams that fulfil the core geographical criteria described above. In other words, they must be part of teams with members based in at least two participating Creative Europe countries in Europe.
- Teams can comprise any combination of members — including journalists working as part of newsroom structures as well as freelancers.
For more information, visit IJ4EU.
