JournalismEU Professional Development Grants 2022 | Funded: (Deadline 6 October 2022)

Applications for the Journalism EU Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism 2022 are now open. This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole.

It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organizations and institutions for training and professional development programmers, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmers targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.

Journalism EU Professional Development Grants

• The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported projects will be around €85,000.

Eligibility for Journalism EU Professional Development Grants

• Open to incorporated legal entities (organisations, companies, …) with demonstrable expertise in investigative journalism, environmental issues, and/or the development of supporting services.
• Eligible proposals entail enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism in Europe. These can be training and professional development programmes, or other activities, services or tools that enable investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environmental issues.
• The project should be clearly defined and limited in time. The grant cannot be used for core funding or for financing permanent operations of an organization.
• Individuals (natural persons) cannot apply for this grant.
• If the project is a collaboration between several organisations, one organisation should apply for the Journalismfund.eu grant.

Assessment Criteria

• Track record and relevance of the partners involved
• Feasibility
• Complementarity and added value to existing and already supported enabling activities for investigative environmental journalism in Europe
• Quality and realism of budget plan
• Necessity of (co-)funding

Application of Journalism EU Professional Development Grants

The next application deadline will be Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 12 pm CEST (noon Brussels time).

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

• information and documents about your organization
• information about the intended project
• a detailed project budget, according to the budget template

Lastly, It is important to visit the official website link found below to access the application form.

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