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BRUSSELS - A total of 41 applications were filed for Journalismfund.eu’s September 2012 application round, more than double the average number of applications that were filed in previous rounds.

ANTWERP - The program for the VVOJ European Investigative Journalism Conference 2012 has been published. Journalismfund.eu is partnering with VVOJ to coordinate the conference's cross-border track.

BRUSSELS - Journalismfund.eu has sent out the first of what will be a bimonthly newsletter on issues concerning Journalismfund.eu and its activities and on investigative journalism in general.

BRUSSELS - A voyage of discovery through the European Union to explore the current state of investigative journalism. A search for answers to the question of whether robust, cross-border investigative journalism into fraud, mismanagement or human error in the spending of European money can contribute to improved European governance. During the last six months, this journey became a full-time occupation for investigative journalist Margo Smit and six of her colleagues.

LJUBLJANA - Blaž Zgaga and Matej Surc along with colleagues in neighbouring countries investigated Slovenia’s massive arms smuggling scandal. Read Blaz Zgaga's article on how they turned the story into a best-selling book trilogy.

TBILISI - A crowdfunding initiative has been launched for the journalists of Georgian Studio Monitor, who were recently robbed of all their equipment - computers, printers, hard drives, etc.

BRUSSELS - Do you have an idea for a European story? Do you have an idea for a story that goes across borders? Then maybe Journalismfund.eu can help you with a research grant.

BRUSSELS - Journalismfund.eu has launched its new website today. The application form, archive functions and general lay-out and usability have been improved. At the same time there is a new call for proposals.

BRUSSELS - The Farmsubsidy.org data are a unique source to follow EU spending of billions of tax payers money. But it is hard to make this amount of data easily accessible. So Farmsubsidy.org has joined forces with Open Data City to build a tool that makes Farmsubsidy data visible and easily accessible. Potentially this can become a tool for other EU spending data too.