Journalismfund Grants for Individuals in Netherlands and Belgium

• Eligibility Criteria
  To be eligible for this Journalismfund grants program:
  – Only natural persons and for some Grant Programs also incorporated legal entities are eligible for a grant. Depending on the Grant Program restrictions can be made based on the residency of the applicant(s);
  – The applicant(s) must be working as professional journalists (natural persons) or be professional news outlets (legal entities). References from individuals (editors, publishers, journalists, professors) and/or references to earlier work are essential. Journalism fund Europe reserves the right to contact references (while respecting the confidentiality of the proposal);
  – Students are not eligible in all Grant Programs;
  – Journalists who were previously allocated a Journalismfund grant can reapply, but the jury can include the result of previous grants in their evaluation of the new application;
  – The applicant(s) must demonstrate convincingly that the project would be unrealizable without a grant. In other words, the reason why the applicant is appealing to Journalismfund Europe should be explained;
  – The applicant(s) should be able to demonstrate the feasibility of the project;
  – A basic commitment in the form of a ‘Letter of Intent’ to publish the product from a news editor is one of the conditions to obtain a grant.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Belgium and The Netherlands
• Application Language: English

The Journalismfund Europe is accepting grant applications to address the shortage of local independent journalism by awarding grants to local investigative journalistic projects in Belgium and the Netherlands and by stimulating the cross-border collaboration.

This project aims at strengthening local cross-border, independent and investigative journalism in order to increase the availability of qualitative local news, and at making citizens more aware of local – and often interrelated and global – issues and possible solutions. As such it aims to contribute to citizens’ critical thinking, well-informed debates/decisions and to foster civic engagement.

Funding Information

Grant amount: €100,000 available.

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