Call for Collaborators: Learning resources for investigators

Tactical Tech is looking for experienced investigators and media professionals to collaborate on producing learning resources (investigation guides, method tutorials, workshop curricula) and to conduct training for journalists and media on a range of investigation methods and topics.

This is a paid collaboration with Tactical Tech, in the framework of the EU-funded Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI).  Fees will vary depending on agreed content (length, approach, time needed) – between 600 EUR and 1200 EUR – and will be based on short-term consultancy agreements rolling out between March and October 2026.

Thematics 

Tactical Tech is looking for collaborators with proven investigative journalism or socially engaged research experience, OSINT expertise and demonstrated writing and training skills in the following thematic areas:

• AI and us — AI systems; tech innovation politics and powers in the tech sector; tech finances and connections across various sectors; global politics behind AI; emotional dependency on Gen AI;
• Climate and information crisis — overlap between information disorder and climate crisis in the context of digital influence and climate action; tech innovation and climate friction;
• Growing up with tech — young people caught in the machine; business models monetizing youth’s tech addictions, and related power struggles;
• Mapping the depths, the depth of mapping — who, why and how is mapping the bottom of the seas and oceans? Who has the data?

Responsibilities 

This paid collaboration will run between March and October 2026, and will include activities such as:

• Researching and writing content about investigation techniques, tools and case-based methodologies in the form of practical guides or workshop curricula;
• Conducting presentations and / or workshops (online and in-person) based on the developed content. (Tactical Tech will cover participation costs for in-person events that are part of the collaboration, in addition to the contracted fees.)
• Attending several internal online meetings with the Tactical Tech team and the group of selected contributors (from this call) in order to exchange ideas, feedback and share skills and necessary support. Time-line to be decided following the selection of contributors.
• Tactical Tech will invite some collaborators to attend an investigation residency that Tactical Tech will host in Berlin in the fall of 2026 (costs covered / dates tba).

Eligibility

Tactical Tech is looking for individual contributors (not institutional partners) who:

• are experienced investigators, media trainers, researchers or have other similar background in the field of investigation, data research and exploration;
• have concrete proposals for written contributions, workshop ideas and trainings relevant to the above-mentioned topics;
• have a proven track record in collaborative reporting, research and/or investigation of public interest issues;
• have a proven track record in writing about or conducting training on investigation techniques including (but not limited to) and topic addressing the thematic areas mentioned above.
• are advanced or fluent in spoken and written English; all content will be developed in English.
• have the ability to deliver on time and to respond to feedback in a timely manner;
• are committed to enhancing and supporting knowledge sharing across the reporting and investigation fields;
• have cultural/political sensitivity and adaptability, and awareness of different views of the world.

How to apply 

Applicants should apply using this application from. They may reach out to this email for questions: eti@tacticaltech.org. The last date to apply is 20 March 2026. To know more about what to include in your proposals, please visit this page.