Supported projects

BERLIN - Shortly before Hungary’s parliamentary election in early 2026, the Berlin-based journalism platform Clean Energy Wire CLEW joined forces with Hungary’s investigative newsroom Átlátszó to empower journalists covering the climate and energy stakes of the vote.

PARIS - Reporters d’Espoirs has launched a training programme designed to strengthen French journalists’ capacity to report on biodiversity and environmental issues. The project combines a nationwide “Biodiversity Tour” across 15 regional newsrooms and journalism schools in France with an online ...

CHARLEROI / FARCIENNES - As Google rapidly expands its data centres in the Belgian region of Hainaut residents are watching farmland, wetlands and entire neighbourhoods disappear behind concrete walls and barbed wire.

PRAGUE / ALYTUS / HELSINKI / ROME - The cross-border investigative project explores one of the least discussed consequences of Europe’s return to nuclear energy: what to do with radioactive waste that remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years.

COLOGNE - The "5vor12" Climate Briefings for journalists organised by Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Germany & Austria, are expanding into a cross-border, English-language format to connect international journalists and media professionals.

ODESA - “Environmental Storytelling in Times of Conflict” is a hybrid workshop that trains emerging photographers and journalists to document underreported environmental issues, with a focus on the ecological impact of conflict.

LEUVEN / LOOSDRECHT - Hooligans, online hate-mongers and orthodox Christians are rallying behind the call for ‘remigration’. For some figures and groups within the far right, the use of violence appears to be no obstacle.

GHENT - Psychedelics are illegal, but show great therapeutic promise and are on the verge of medical acceptance. If clinical research and the claims of pharmaceutical start-ups are to be believed, psychedelics may well become the latest weapon in the fight against conditions such as depression ...

GHENT / TERNEUZEN - Our region has everything it needs to be a world leader in green chemistry. At least, that is what the government and industry unanimously claim. We put this to the test in North Sea Port, the binational port that says it is fully committed to a circular future. Will the chemical ...

NARDÒ / STUTTGART – Natura 2000 constitutes the biggest network of protected natural areas in the European Union. But under the guise of public interest, these nature protection zones are increasingly being threatened by private industrial investments. It is the case of Nardò’s countryside, on the ...

KECSKEMÉT - A cross-border investigation into failed water policies and grassroots solutions in the Sandy Plains region of Hungary reveals that, as the drought worsens, the authorities continue to drain rainwater. Meanwhile, communities are racing to save it.

POLINKHOVE / ANTWERP – Every Flemish citizen has the right to add a question or a proposal to the municipal council’s agenda. Research by Apache shows that around a quarter of Flemish towns and municipalities do not have regulations setting out the conditions for doing so.

ROTTERDAM / RIMINI / FAIRBOURNE - The investigation looks at three cities that are all vulnerable to increased flooding as the sea level rises. It analyses the municipal policies designed to protect the cities from flooding, demonstrating that greater protection is linked to a higher economic value ...

ZUGDIDI - The 250-kilometre border between Abkhazia and Georgia has been dividing the two countries for decades, making life increasingly difficult for the communities living along it. Caught between Russian pressure and the manoeuvrings of the ruling Georgian Dream party, those living near the ...

PRAGUE / KYIV – Across scarred landscapes where war has reshaped both land and lives, this cross-border series traces the invisible wounds left in soil and water and the fragile paths toward healing. From Ukraine’s frontlines to former Soviet military zones in Czechia, it follows how history lingers ...

SARAJEVO - For years, real estate companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina owned by Arab citizens have been selling what they call a “dream house in Bosnia” to buyers from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

ROME / PARIS / PRAGUE / SARAJEVO - The European transition toward a “green” automotive industry is often presented as a key climate strategy. Yet behind this narrative lies a fragmented environmental reality. While products evolve, production sites often remain tied to past industrial cycles: former ...

BRUSSELS - It is everywhere, yet invisible. Hawala, an ancient, trust-based money transfer system, moves vast sums of cash around the world every day, leaving almost no trace. No banks. No paper trail. Just a handshake and a code.

BULIISA - This investigation focuses on how oil development has reshaped communities in western Uganda, and on why displaced Balaalo pastoralists are still waiting for promised compensation.

MAZARA DEL VALLO – This investigation reveals that Mazara's renowned red shrimp brand is becoming increasingly dependent on global supply chains, Libyan waters and opaque practices. Declining local catches and rising costs are pushing this famous Italian fishery into crisis.

BUCHAREST / PRAGUE / WARSAW - The Polluter Profits Project is a data investigation that uncovers how billions of euros from the EU Modernisation Fund, one of the main sources of public decarbonisation funding for lower-income member states, have been channelled towards polluting industries.

KILEMBE - Since the first measurements were taken in 1906, more than 90% of the ice in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has disappeared. Experts predict it will be gone entirely within a decade.

CERRO DE PASCO - The city of Cerro de Pasco lies at an altitude of 4,380 metres in the harsh climate of the Peruvian Andes. It is one of the highest cities in the world, but also one of the most polluted, as there is a huge pit right in the centre of the city.

AMSTERDAM / MAE SOT - A message on Instagram: "Hi darling. I’ve been thinking about you a lot today… Are you thinking of me too?" It's a typical scam. But these scammers are victims themselves, often lured by false promises and imprisoned in scam centres in Southeast Asia.

HAVANA - The US is imposing an oil embargo on Cuba with the aim of bringing about regime change. Professor Domínguez López of the University of Havana stresses that the current problems cannot be viewed in isolation from more than sixty years of US sanctions. Those sanctions have never given Cuba ...

CACOAL - This investigation delves into the supply chain of Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), a US green fuel producer and joint venture between fossil fuel company Valero and multinational rendering company Darling Ingredients.

SOZAK - Vlast and EIF's latest investigation, published in partnership with the French media outlet Reporterre, focuses on the French multinational company Orano (formerly Areva) and its joint venture, Katco, in Kazakhstan. The investigation reveals that Katco was convicted of several environmental ...

MADRID - When a military coup took place in Spain in 1936, followed by a civil war, as many as 2,400 volunteers left our country to fight on the side of the democratically elected Second Republic (1931–1939), first with the militias in the Basque Country and Catalonia, and later with the ...

NEW YORK / BRUSSEL - A study of bias in Western media reporting. Using a case study on the war in Afghanistan, we examine how journalists reported on the fight against ‘terrorism’ during America’s longest war and investigate the structural patterns that have shaped the narrative surrounding this ...

LIERNEUX - Europe wants to reduce its dependence on foreign supplies of key raw materials. That is why Member States are looking into what can be mined within their borders. Senne Starckx investigated the possibilities in Belgium.