European Cross Border Grant Programme – Fourth Round

• Eligibility:
  –  Cross-border teams of at least two journalists can submit an investigation proposal.
  – Be professional journalists (written or audio-visual press). Personal references and/or references to earlier work are essential in that respect. Students are not eligible.
  – Only natural persons can apply for a grant.
  – Journalists who were previously allocated a grant by Journalismfund.eu can reapply. The jury will include the result of previous grants in their evaluation of the new application.
• Type of funding: Programmatic
• Target countries: Council of Europe Member States
• Application language: English

This awarded European Cross-Border Grant programme (running since 2009) will support professional journalists who have good ideas for cross-border investigations and for research on European topics. The story ideas submitted must be relevant to European target groups and must have great news value and depth, and at the same time be original, innovative and time-consuming, and would not be realised without financial support. Projects can include cross-border research, networking between colleagues, and established and innovative investigative methods.

The project must be published by at least two professional news outlets in at least two different countries. Letters of intent for publication from at least two professional news outlets are required. Investigative journalism published by professional media in any form is eligible, no matter whether print, online, broadcast or cross-media. 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.

See here to learn more and apply.