Supported projects

ATHENS/BERLIN/ZURICH -The European Union is deploying AI-driven technologies along its borders in an to attempt to control migration flows, raising legal and ethical concerns about the impact on migrants' rights. While these systems are promoted as improving efficiency and security, they have raised concerns about privacy violations and restrictions on the right to asylum, concerns that this research confirms.

CLUJ-NAPOCA – This investigation reveals widespread illegal gravel extraction from riverbeds in Romania, exacerbated by corrupt practices and poor law enforcement. Ongoing dredging is causing serious damage, threatening freshwater resources, agriculture, and biodiversity.

AGADIR / PERPIGNAN – Grown for the most part in the Souss region of Morocco, tomatoes have become one of the most cultivated and exported vegetables of the kingdom. What goes wrong for the environment and agriculture if Europeans keep importing — and eating it in winter?

BRUSSELS / PARIS - Over a year, a team of 46 journalists in 16 countries investigated an ongoing massive, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign led by the PFAS industry and their allied organisations to water down a proposal to ban “forever chemicals” in the EU and shift the burden of environmental pollution onto society, threatening the economic equilibrium of European nations. 

BERLIN/PRAGUE – This investigation examines migration trends in the care sector, focusing on foreign workers in Germany, elderly migration to the Czech Republic, and the reliance of Czech healthcare on foreign professionals.

ONLINE/LONDON – Dark Green is a new free online training programme from The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ). It will focus specifically on helping journalists to more effectively follow the money in their environmental and climate investigations. 

AMSTERDAM/BUCHAREST/SOFIA/WARSAW - What happens if one of the million migrant workers living and working in The Netherlands - often doing dangerous jobs - gets permanently injured during a workplace accident? This investigation sheds light into the workplace accidents among migrant workers in Netherlands.

KIAMBU - Across Europe – the largest coffee market in the world – millions start their days with an espresso or cappuccino. But behind Europeans' ever-growing love of coffee lies a bitter truth of environmental degradation and human exploitation.

VINSCHGAU / THIAN SHAN - This project shows that the protection of a special natural heritage – namely the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, — is in Europe's strong interest, as it might help to make European apple growing more environmentally friendly.

BARAY - Billionaires, luxury tour operators and airlines legitimise their CO₂ emissions with carbon credits from the Hadzabe, a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania who hardly emit any CO₂ themselves.