Environmental Investigative Journalism Grants

• Eligibility Criteria: Supported investigations must result in publications in at least two media outlets based in different countries, with at least one being a European outlet targeting European audiences.
• Type of Funding: Grant
• Target Region: Europe
• Application Language: English

Journalismfund Europe is offering Environmental Investigative Journalism grants to support cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets investigating illegal, unreported, and unregulated environmental issues linked to European interests, both within and beyond Europe. 

Thematics

• Next to investigations of environmental issues that transcend borders, this programme can also support and stimulate investigations that compare local environmental issues and policies between two or more places.
• The investigation must be focusing on the environmental issues relevant for European audiences anywhere on the European continent (islands included).
• More than 200 investigations have already been published under this programme since 2022. You can find them here (please use the filter on the left to check if investigations on certain themes had already already received funding).

Eligibility

• Cross-border teams of at least two journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the environment — environmental protection, destruction, biodiversity, impact of climate change on the nature, etc.
• Only applicants who are legally residing/registered in at least two different countries are permitted to receive funding.
• The applicants must be professional journalists or registered media companies.
• Personal references and links to earlier work are essential.
• News outlets must be legal entities officially incorporated at least 12 months prior to the application deadline.
• The investigation proposal must concern cross-border environmental investigative journalism on European affairs — in or outside Europe.
• Theinvestigation has to be of relevance for the European audience.
• Next to investigations into environmental issues that transcend borders, this grant can also support comparative investigations into local environmental issues and policies between two or more countries, regions or cities.
• The result of the investigation must be published by at least two professional news outlets in at least two different countries, one of which must be in Europe. Letters of intent for the publication of your specific investigation from at least two professional news outlets are required.
• Investigative journalism published by professional media in any form is eligible, whether print, online, broadcast or cross-media. Your investigation can be published as newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television documentaries and series, photo-reportages and books, podcasts and journalistic non-fiction books.

To know more about eligibility and grant rules, please visit this page. 

How to apply

After a one-time registration with your email address, you can access this online application form. You can freely navigate through the form to see which information you need to provide in your application. This includes:

• team members’ details
• information about the intended investigation
• information about the intended publication channels, including letters of intent from news outlets
• a detailed budget, according to this budget template
• You will also be asked to upload some administrative documents.

The last date to submit applications for this round of funding is August 6, 2026.

For more information, please visit this page.