Deadline: 3 June 2024
The Europe-Ukraine Desk offers grants to journalists for producing and publishing high-quality, in-depth, underreported stories that thematically deal with Ukraine.
The program aims to enhance European media coverage of Ukraine by promoting cross-border journalism, fostering a lasting journalistic network and amplifying Ukrainian voices and perspectives. Grants will be available from July 2023 to September 2024.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount that can be requested by an applicant’s team is €5,000. The stories should be produced within 3 months and published by at least one media outlet based in an EU country by November 2024 latest.
Which costs might be covered by the grant?
- Working time for freelancers;
- Working time for staff journalists if they do not work on the project as part of their employment and will not publish it in their own media;
- Production and associated expenses: travel, accommodation, translation, fixers, software licenses, access to pay data-bases, equipment rental etc.
What projects are supported?
- The Europe-Ukraine Desk grants offer support for journalistic projects spanning various genres and formats: podcasts, features, documentaries, printed or online stories, books, comic strips, photos, and cross-media productions. The programme focuses specifically on in-depth stories and high-impact reporting, as well as sustainable and scalable projects. Funding cannot be granted to long-term initiatives that run beyond end of 2024. It is important that all contributors involved in the final publication are appropriately credited.
Who can apply?
- The program is open to journalists from the project’s participating countries: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Ukraine. Applicants are expected to form teams of two to four members, and submit one application per team for a single project. It is necessary for the team to include at least one journalist from the EU and one journalist from Ukraine. This condition is essential for fostering cross-border collaboration.
What are the evaluation criteria?
- Relevance of the topic;
- Added value compared to mainstream coverage (stories that lack attention);
- Clarity of the project;
- Potential outreach and impact;
- Budget rationality;
- Creating new network opportunities.
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