2025-07-18
BRUSSELS – In its second funding round, the Microgrants for Small Newsrooms programme is supporting 26 media outlets across Europe. Recipients of grants of up to €5,000 will develop products, services and prototypes of tactical importance to their sustainability within a sprint-like implementation period.
The programme is coordinated by Journalismfund Europe and Transitions, and is co-funded by the European Commission, the Vereniging Veronica Foundation and Limelight Foundation.
The 26 media outlets are from the following countries: Bulgaria (1), France (2), Germany (2), Hungary (3), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Luxembourg (1), North Macedonia (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Spain (1) and Ukraine (10). A total of €127,089 has been allocated among the supported projects.
Click on the links below to read more about each of the media organisations' projects:
- Ukrainian Witness - (Ukraine)
- Grunt.Media - (Ukraine)
- Inform.zp.ua (Democracy Initiative) - (Ukraine)
- Szegeder.hu - (Hungary)
- Colectivo 5W - (Spain)
- Novaja Gazeta Europe - (Latvia)
- FairPlanet - (Germany)
- GreenBelarus.info - (VšĮ Green Network) (Lithuania)
- Rubryka - (Ukraine)
- Eastern Variant - (Ukraine)
- Nakypilo”. Radio - (Ukraine)
- Shifter Generation - (Portugal)
- Memoriał - (Poland)
- Documentalistite Foundation - (Bulgaria)
- Mykolaivski Novyny - (Ukraine)
- Zébuline (Culture et Pluralisme) - (France)
- Grechka - (Ukraine)
- Woxx - (Luxembourg)
- Rue89_Strasbourg - (France)
- Mérce Blog - (Hungary)
- Gostivar - (North Macedonia)
- Makes Sense - (Ukraine)
- dis:orient - (Germany)
- Borsod24 - (Hungary)
- Texty (Data Journalism Agency) - (Ukraine)
- Context.Ro - (Romania)
The aforementioned projects were selected by a jury for their approach to media development and innovation, in line with organisational strategies that meet audience needs. In addition to these important considerations, the jurors also focused on the ability of the grantees to produce robust journalism. The 26 projects have a maximum timeline of 3 months to complete their work.
The jury is anonymous and it is composed of four experienced media experts specialising in local media from across Europe. The jury independently decides on the granting of the submitted project proposals, based on specific grant rules, assessment criteria, and project budgets.
For this second round of applications for the Microgrants for Small Newsrooms, Journalismfund Europe received 85 applications from 21 EU and eligible countries. Of these, 54 were legal entities applied, they are registered/domiciled in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine. The jury had to make some split-hair decisions to determine which projects to support.
The PluPro project is a 24-month initiative co-funded by the European Union, Vereniging Veronica and the Limelight Foundation, and implemented by a consortium compof Journalismfund Europe and Transitions.
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