Supported projects

WILLEMSTAD / TICINO / AREZZO – A large investigation exposes the route of gold out coming out of Venezuela and into Europe: over 70 tonnes of the precious metal sourced in the Amazon were routed through the Caribbean and refined in Switzerland and Italy, reaching the supply chains of Apple, Tesla ...

CAYAMBE – An investigation into Ecuador’s flower trade reveals severe exploitation of workers and indigenous communities encircled by the plantations - and how European customers are misled about the origin of the pesticides-loaded blooms they are buying.

CASABLANCA - What happens when the waste you collect from a factory or a landfill is both making you sick and providing your only source of income? For Morocco, Europe’s circular economy brings a new pattern of colonial co-dependence.

PORTO DO SON - The EU’s flagship fisheries policy is being undermined by a loophole. Thousands of fishing vessels are operating with illegally powerful engines, undermining conservation rules and raising doubts about the Union’s sustainability promises.

LIMA / MADRID - An investigation finds that, four years after the spill of 12,000 barrels of crude oil, the rehabilitation of the Peruvian sea has yet to begin, as Repsol’s plans remain unapproved. Fishers continue to find tar on the beaches, while the company reports rising profits.

FLENSBURG - The Baltic Sea is under significant pressure, yet efforts to protect it are insufficient. Its decline is driven by two major forces: the accelerating impacts of climate change and eutrophication, the nutrient overload from agricultural runoff, sewage, and other waste that fuels massive ...

PITEÅ / BOGOTÁ - On a snowy trail in Sweden, Leif Lundberg, a Sami, denounces forestry companies for exploiting the land. 10,000 kilometres away, José Tombe, a Nasa from Colombia, prepares a collective action to reclaim his land. They are both fighting the threat posed to their territories by ...

BIAŁOWIEŻA – The investigation looks into the impacts of a 186-kilometer, 5-meter-high steel barrier built at the border between Poland and Belarus in 2022.

ANTWERP/BRUSSELS - How is it that we know so little about Africa yet still have such strong opinions about it? This ABC book takes a close look at the existing clichés.

TEKİRDAĞ / SAMOTHRAKI / ANCONA - This investigation traces the evolution of mucilage from a shocking surface bloom into an ongoing environmental governance failure and intensifying cross-border marine crisis across the Mediterranean.

PARIS - 7,000 protected areas are under threat from oil and gas projects worldwide. 120 countries were included in the investigation data analysed by a large cross-border team of independent journalists and media outlets.

SARAJEVO / SKOPJE - This cross‑border investigation explores why rare and endangered plant species in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia are vanishing despite existing legal frameworks.

RIGA - The Environmental Journalism School is a five-month online training and mentoring programme designed for Russian-speaking journalists in exile.

TARANTO / VALENCIA / ONLINE – Marea Media, REVOLVE, and the MIRA–Recommon team have joined forces to organise 'Fair Funds, Fair Future', a climate justice training programme for Southern European journalists.

VIENNA - “Follow the Carbon, the Money and the Data” is a two-day training program designed to strengthen investigative climate reporting.

BRUSSELS / BIAŁOWIEŻA / LESBOS - Security agents abandoning people in the desert. Coast guards destroying boats and leaving those on board stranded on the open sea. Slave markets with refugees. Since the start of the “European refugee crisis”, violence at our external borders, and in distant ...

QAMISHLO - March 2014. During a report in Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria, things go wrong. IS militants storm the town hall and blow themselves up. Ten years later, we return to Qamishlo to see how the events of that day have changed the lives of those involved, and what remains of the ...

BRATISLAVA / PRAGUE / BUDAPEST / WARSAW - Four leading newsrooms placed scientific-grade air monitors outside elementary schools. For four months, the data didn’t blink. PM2.5 levels stayed dangerously high, right where children learn and play.

BRUSSELS – Across Europe, the wolf population is growing, but so is resistance. Between the numbers, the political and public debate threatens to impact science. Accurate monitoring of the animals is crucial, not only for counting them, but also for understanding how conservation works.

NOVACI / OBRENOVAC / BERLIN - In the Macedonian village of Novaci, next to the REK Bitola coal complex, daily life is defined by constant dust and noise. The plant has reliably generated almost two-thirds of the country's electricity for decades. Its legacy is one of pollution and stalled ...

PORTO-NOVO - Can the close partnership between Belgium and Benin serve as a model for sustainable European-African cooperation? The failure of European states in Sahel countries such as Mali and Niger has shown that military cooperation alone does not work. In Benin, Belgium offers not only military ...

PO RIVER DELTA/ EBRO DELTA - This investigation documents how fertiliser runoff from the Ebro and Po river basins drains into the Mediterranean, fuelling harmful algal blooms and impacting the people and local economies in those deltas.

ONLINE / OLTENIA REGION / HUNEDOARA / PRAHOVA - This is a pioneering investigative journalism project that marks a premiere in the Romanian media landscape: the first coordinated cross-regional collaboration among hyperlocal newsrooms for anti-corruption investigations in the EU Just Transition.

MINSK - In this investigation, journalists based in five different European countries investigate ties between the EU and Belarus, with a closer look on how far political, economical and social connections have been impacted by the war in Ukraine.

BARCELONA/ BILBAO/ ROME/ TURIN - The project investigated the state of Drug Harm Reduction programs and services across Italy and Spain, and assessed how a fragmented financial and operational framework hinders the ability to provide essential healthcare and support to substance users.

BENZDORP/PARAMARIBO - Deep in the Amazon rainforest, on the banks of the Lawa River between Suriname and French Guiana, live the Wayana. The peaceful existence of this indigenous population came to an abrupt end in 1885, when gold was discovered in the region. Since then, the presence of outsiders ...

NYÍREGYHÁZA/ LAMEZIA/ SOFIA/ JANOV - What happens when public money intended to dismantle inequality reinforces it? This investigation explores how one of Europe's most marginalised communities experiences policies designed in their name, without their participation.

TARANTO / TURCENI / PRAGUE - New investigation reveals that the EU's flagship carbon market, meant to cut emissions and drive climate neutrality, is riddled with secrecy. It is also plagued by conflicts of interest and loopholes that let polluters underreport emissions and save millions.

BRUSSELS - In 2021, the European Union decided that it wants to end homelessness by 2030. Belgium also signed up to this goal. During the Belgian Presidency of the European Council at the beginning of last year, our country organised a conference in Brussels entitled “Towards zero homelessness, only ...

PARIS / BRUSSELS - This past decade, planting initiatives have grown more and more popular, and in 2020, the EU launched its own, the Three Billion Trees pledge. But as researchers have shown, not all planting projects are equal.