The Italian Recovery Plan foresaw an investment of 59.7 billion euros over 5 years for “green revolution and ecological transition” projects. Local communities and investigative journalists played an important role in monitoring this huge amount of money that has been spent in the environmental sector. For this reason info.nodes, organised training for journalists aiming at monitoring and investigating these projects and assisted three journalists in investigating and exposing local cases.
This project had three main objectives:
- to improve the capacity of journalists to investigate and expose crimes related to environmental issues;
- to offer coaching for three selected local investigative projects;
- to publish the three selected local investigative projects
As a result of the two-days workshop, 8 teams investigated on stories related to the misuse of the Italian Recovery Plan.
