Grants to stimulate Cross-border Local Investigations by Belgian and Dutch Journalists

Deadline: 9 November 2023

With this project Journalismfund Europe wants to stimulate cross-border local investigations by Belgian and Dutch journalists.

In this version, teams of investigative journalists from Belgium and The Netherlands who have good ideas for a cross-border local investigation in the region are involved.

Funding Information

For this round there’s €100.000 available. The funds come from the Flemish Government (Department of Culture, Youth and Media).

Which costs?

A grant can cover two types of costs:
- Expenses (both for freelance journalists as for employed staff journalists); these can include travel, visa, accommodation, translation, fixers, access to pay-databases, FOI requests, legal screening, etc.
- Research time (only for freelance journalists).
- Following expenses are not eligible for a grant: investments goods (such as IT equipment, cameras,), office costs, production costs, food and beverage, per diems.

Eligibility Criteria

Both beginning (starters) and experienced journalist (seniors) can submit a project that cannot be realised through the normal channels of journalism, that has major news value and depth and that is also original, innovative and time-consuming.
Teams of at least one journalist from Belgium and one from the Netherlands are eligible.
If relevant to the story, team members from elsewhere may also be accepted.
The applicant must be a journalist (written or audio-visual press), or be able to prove that he/she is aspiring to a career in journalism. Personal references and/or references to earlier work are essential in that respect.
Only natural persons can apply for a grant.
Projects with regard to investigative and special journalism must deal with topics that are relevant for Flanders.
The project must be published in a Dutch-language medium in Belgium. A letter of intent for publication from at least one professional news outlet is required for journalists with more than 2 years of experience. For starters this is considered a plus.
All journalistic end products qualify for a grant: newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television documentaries and series, photo-reportages and books, podcasts and journalistic non-fiction books.

Criteria