Supported projects

GDANSK - The education project aims to familiarise the inhabitants of Pomerania with the issues of energy transformation, which is a technical, economic and social challenge. The construction of the nuclear power plant is very controversial among the inhabitants of Pomerania.

ODORHEIU SECUIESC - Our project targets the Hungarian-speaking minority in Romania's Harghita county, with special focus on youth (16-29) and rural communities within 50km of Odorheiu Secuiesc. We also engage with diverse religious denominations to amplify their perspectives on community development ...

DEBRECEN - Debreciner primarily targets the residents of Debrecen and the surrounding Hajdú-Bihar County. We focus on cultivating an engaged audience interested in public affairs, seeking background information about regional life, and acting as opinion leaders in their communities. The goal of this ...

SZEGED - Our primary target audience is local: urban professionals, students, and engaged residents of Szeged and Southern Hungary. Most are aged 18–45, but we also reach older demographics interested in independent, public interest journalism.

LISBON - This project aims to bring together the people of Chelas, a peripheral neighbourhood, and all the other audiences in Lisbon. That is precisely its aim.

Łódź - Łódź.po is an independent local newsroom based in ŁÓDŹ, Poland. It serves the local community and covers important social issues. 

ZASAVJE - The primary target audience of this project is regional and local communities in the Zasavje region, particularly young people, students, and emerging media professionals. We also focus on marginalised groups, including the elderly, ethnic minorities, low-income individuals, and single ...

BROUMOV - The project targets local audience in the Broumovsko micro-region, partly also national. The project will work directly with three basic groups - workers, seniors and young people. This also includes the Roma minority, newcomers from Ukraine and workers from neighbouring Poland.

ŁÓDZ - The project is aimed at residents of rural and urban-rural communes of the Radomsko district (Łódź province), who, for technological and distribution reasons, are deprived of access to information about their local community.

SOUTH TYROL - The project targets people in South Tyrol with learning difficulties, low literacy, or limited language skills. It aims at regional audiences of all ages and backgrounds, promoting inclusive access to news.

RIGA - The project aims to provide independent, reliable news to regions in Latvia facing news deserts, particularly in the run-up to the June 2025 municipal elections. The primary target group is regional residents, especially young voters and women.

BARCELONA - This training programme aims to encourage collaboration between investigative journalists and photojournalists in order to raise awareness of desertification in Europe through innovative storytelling.

ATHENS / SOFIA / ROME - This project focuses on the real-world dynamics of renewable energy deployment in three key countries in Southern and South-Eastern Europe. Despite their different histories, economies, and regulatory structures, they face surprisingly similar obstacles in their quest of ...

BRUSSELS - This book features donor families of today. What is their story? How did they choose a donor? With what words do they talk about this at the kitchen table? And what reactions do they get from those around them? Children also have their say in this book. What are their needs, questions or ...

BRUSSELS – The EU aims to capture 50 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030. However, several major CCS projects backed by EU funds are facing serious challenges, from high operating costs to local opposition.

ARLES - This is a four-day hybrid workshop designed to equip 10 emerging documentary photographers or journalist with the skills, tools, and networks needed to produce in-depth, impactful environmental stories.

CÁDIZ / AWRE - This investigation delves into the growing push to monetize blue carbon in Spain and the UK, where scientists, NGOs, and financial consultancies are working to quantify the carbon stored in salt marshes and seagrasses to fund their restoration.

BUDAPEST - Mérce launched its first editorial video commentaries to experiment with short-form, platform-native video journalism. The project resulted in two professionally produced videos, a reusable visual identity and workflow for future video production, and the successful launch of Mérce’s ...

IJMUIDEN - After pulse fishing was banned by the European Parliament in 2018, many Dutch fishermen switched to flyshooting. However, flyshoot fishing mainly targets species for which there is too little data to manage stocks properly. These are not subject to quotas and fishermen can take them out ...

ANTWERP - Between Kapelstraat, the railway tracks and two strips of industrial activity lies a neighbourhood that has been home to peace, conviviality and neighbourly friendship for over a hundred years. In the background, smoke curls from Umicore.

AMSTERDAM / BUDAPEST / SIDNEY – This cross-border investigation examined how the world’s most controversial herbicide secured a ten-year re-approval in the European Union despite mounting scientific and legal concerns. 

BOSASO - After almost a decade of silence on Somalia's northern coast, piracy seems to be making a comeback. Driven by hunger and desperation, old smuggling routes are being reopened and strategic ports are being targeted. 'The sea beckons as never before.'The comeback of Somali pirates

TIRANA/MILANO - The destruction of the Balkans' forests continues, especially in the remote areas of Albania where the law doesn't reach and corruption reigns. It's a deep-rooted and local phenomenon, but it's supported by an international dynamic that involves Europe and, above all, the country's ...

AMSTERDAM / BRUSSELS - Gay & Grey is a documentary series by director Julia M. Free in a co-production with VRT Canvas and DeMensen. The series follows the daily lives of senior lesbian couples, aged 70 and above, whose relationships have stood the test of time.

GHENT - Poverty is not just a matter of not having enough money. Poverty affects every aspect of your life. By highlighting people's problems from different points of view, Michelle Ginée in Poor in Rich Flanders goes in search of answers.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE – Over the last few years, stories have been published on the irregular adoptions that took place in Chile during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship. But the trafficking of children from Chile did not begin and end with the dictatorship. It still goes on today. This cross ...

BRATISLAVA/PRAGUE – This investigation focuses on the different legal approaches to compensating victims of the involuntary sterilisation of Roma women in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 

BRUSSELS - Exporting Abortion is a cross-border, collaborative investigation into the unequal access to abortion in Europe. Journalists from across the continent have investigated how thousands of women each year are forced to travel from one country to another to get an abortion. The investigation ...

CROTONE / STRONGOLI / LYNEMOUTH - This extensive, months-long investigation by a cross-border team of journalists from five countries and in collaboration with Follow The Money, scrutinizes EPH – one of the largest biomass operators in Europe  – to unveil the loopholes in EU regulation and verify ...

PARIS / BELO HORIZONTE - At a time when the industry is under pressure to decarbonise, this investigation delves into the hidden side of green steel and its environmental and social impacts. The findings reveal that, when it comes to safeguarding the environment, the battle is far from won.