Supported projects

KAUNAS / PLUNGĖ / JURBARKAS - We are building a map of local community issues dedicated to the communities of Kaunas, Jurbarkas, Plungė, and Neringa municipalities in Lithuania. This tool will encourage greater collaboration between local communities and policymakers, enabling journalists to become more involved in addressing the issues faced by residents.

FARO - This project aims to create a direct communication channel between the audience and our newsroom, making it possible for our readers to submit information that can be changed by our journalists into news. The main purpose is to serve a population that lives in regions of Algarve underserved by media outlets.

BROUMOV - The Participatory Journalism for the Periphery project will involve members of the public interested in journalism in the creation of content for the Our Broumov Region (in CZ Naše Broumovsko, abbreviated as NB) news website, the only purely regional media outlet that provides information on daily basis.

PLOCK - The project will be implemented in the płock county in Poland. It is a low-urbanized area near the city of Płock, inhabited by more than 90,000 people with no access to quality local news. The main goal of the project is to eliminate the news desert by launching of information sub-portal in this area, including innovative journalistic formats on issues important to the inhabitants of the news desert.

MOSTECKO - Alarm online daily's newly established regional editorial office will focus on one of the most vulnerable micro-regions in the Czech Republic - the so-called Mostecko region. This first local editorial office of Alarm is a pilot project of a long-term plan to enter the regions and significantly strengthen regional journalism by creating smaller teams working directly in the field. 

BRAGANÇA / VILA REAL - This project will deliver deep investigation, scrutiny and storytelling journalism in  the remote and increasingly deserted region of Trás-os-Montes. As the region and its 310.000 inhabitants are often stereotyped as old and isolated, this quality approach will value unique identity and traditions preserved by the physical remoteness. 

CLUJ NAPOCA / IASI / TIMISOARA / CRAIOVA - Our initiative aims to address the lack of coverage in the local media of organized crime and corruption stories by setting up investigative centers together with trusted local journalists and students in 4 major regions of the country.

LUBLIN – „We invest in democracy” is a project of independent Polish newspaper “Tygodnik Siedlecki”. We are trying to resist the rising crisis in printed press industry. Our readers are spread across 7 administrative districts of eastern Poland, including six in the Mazovia Province and one in the Lublin Province. 

RUSE - The project is tasked to strengthen the news flow in local communities, currently deprived of up-to-date and reliable information. We will contribute to their growth and the strengthening of the democratic process by including and involving them in the media content.

BRATISLAVA - ICJK project intends to train 4 journalists working in news deserts and in regions without proper media attention in Central and Eastern Slovakia in investigative techniques. ICJK will also create an informal regional investigative journalism network in Slovakia that will cooperate on investigative projects in Slovak regions in the future.