Fonds Pascal Decroos Low Countries Grant

• Eligibility Criteria
  For the Fonds Pascal Decroos Low Countries Grant:
  – Teams of investigative journalists (starters and seniors) from at least The Netherlands and Belgium who have good ideas for a local cross-border investigation in that region. When relevant to the story, team members from elsewhere can be accepted, too;
  – The applicant(s) must be working as professional journalists. Furthermore, references from individuals (editors, publishers, journalists, professors) and/or references to earlier work are essential;
  – Students are not eligible in all Grant Programmes;
  – 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 unrealisable without a grant. In other words, the reason why the applicant is appealing to Journalismfund 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 for obtaining a grant.
• Type of funding: Programmatic
• Target countries: The Netherlands and Belgium
• Application language: English

Journalismfund Europe is accepting proposals for the Fonds Pascal Decroos Low Countries Grant supported by the Flemish Government.

With this project, Journalismfund Europe aims to address the shortage of local independent journalism by awarding grants to local investigative journalistic projects in Belgium and the Netherlands.

This way, cities in Belgium and the Netherlands could mutually strengthen each other (e.g. by forming each other’s benchmark) and as such increase the impact of the supported publications.

Fonds Pascal Decroos Low Countries aims to strengthen 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

For this round there’s €100,000 available. The funds come from the Flemish Government (Department of Culture, Youth and Media). For this grant programme, there are 4 application rounds scheduled in 2025. The deadline for this first round of applications is 6 February, 2025.

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