Supported projects

MONTREUIL - Thanks to support from Journalismfund Europe, Basta has launched a unique platform: a news aggregator dedicated to independent media outlets, which runs without algorithms or AI assistance and is curated by a team of journalists. 

TAVIRA - Postal do Algarve launched the AI Postal Service in May 2026, opening its local news archive to multilingual conversational searches. Developed particularly for migrant and non-Portuguese-speaking communities in the Algarve, the chatbot allows readers to ask questions and receive answers ...

ATHENS - Film The Police offers communities the tools they need to stand as witnesses to police violence and abuse. It shows people how to safely record public police action with their mobile phones, and it curates the results, creating a collective video archive of the experience of policing in ...

FARO - Geração SULi brought professional journalism into six Algarve secondary schools, engaging 97 students in hands-on media literacy. Supported by Sul Informação journalists, students developed fact-checking, journalistic and multimedia skills while publishing stories about their communities ...

TORINO – The project "Convict Journalism: A Space for Inmates Reporting" transformed prison from a media blind spot into a space for public-interest reporting by equipping around 20 incarcerated participants in two Italian prisons with the theoretical and practical foundations to tell the stories of ...

BRUSSELS - A maze of European subsidy rules has created a lucrative niche: grant consultants. These consultancy firms earn substantial sums by assisting researchers with their subsidy applications. This raises a fundamental question: does current research policy steer science too much towards ...

PRAGUE / KYIV – Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that is climate-resilient, restoring soil health, increasing biodiversity and strengthening rural communities. The project examines farms that have successfully implemented new strategies to highlight what works in practice and why.

BRUSSELS - Agriculture in Flanders is facing challenges. Caught between expanding cities and ever-growing nature reserves, farmers are striving to produce food for a growing (global) population.

PRAGUE - This investigation uncovers a secretive porn empire’s dominance, hidden ownership, lawsuits, financial evasions, industry threats, and struggles with new regulation.

PRAGUE / TIRANA / WEINSTADT – This project explores the surprising new roles of Czech military bunkers, which were once part of the defence system built in the 1930s. Brno’s 10-Z shelter has been revived by historian Pavel Paleček, who has turned it into a museum, cultural venue and unconventional ...

GUINGAMP - Funding from Journalismfund enabled the production of videos based on investigations made by "Splann!", an investigative media outlet based in Brittany. Posted on YouTube and social media, these videos helped expand the audience reached by the outlet's journalism, covering issues related ...

BRUSSELS – Is it possible to turn complex, non-local and long-form stories into short-form video formats that can reach and inform a young and digital generation? With the support of PM4D, MO* experimented for four months with this specific goal in mind. 

BUDAPEST – Magyar Hang has moved its newsroom to a new open-source editorial system built on Drupal and integrated with a separate CRM and webshop platform. The team set up editorial roles, publishing and subscription workflows, migrated more than 80,000 posts, and added new video and newsletter ...

PERPIGNAN – Made in Perpignan trained 22 young people aged 18 to 25, recruited through local organisations in the poorest neighbourhoods of Perpignan and in the rural villages of the Pyrénées-Orientales, one of France's most deprived departments. Over six-session cycles, they learned to identify an ...

BANJA LUKA – With support from Journalismfund Europe, Gerila.info produced six short documentaries and six related podcasts. The stories were reported in smaller communities across Bosnia and Herzegovina and focused on people who rarely receive sustained media coverage: the family of a child with a ...

GENOA – PM4D's support enabled L'Unica to expand by launching a new edition in Genoa (in north-western Italy). The grant provided essential financial and technical support, helping to make the project economically sustainable and giving L'Unica both the theoretical and practical foundations needed ...

DAUGAVPILS - Between September 2025 and May 2026, CHAYKA, the only independent Russian-language newsroom in Latgale, Latvia’s region with the highest share of older residents, gave population ageing sustained coverage in both Russian and Latvian. The newsroom published 57 themes against 39 planned ...

BEREGOVO - Journalists embarked on a journey along the Tisza River to investigate the sources of pollution in one of Central and Eastern Europe's major waterways.

DAMASCUS – Following the collapse of the Assad regime, it emerged that at least 3,700 children had gone missing in Syria. They were either arrested alongside their parents or born to political prisoners in jail. Nobody knows where they are today. Have they been killed and buried in mass graves ...

MYDLOVARY - In the middle of Europe, a contaminated legacy of the Soviet nuclear program has turned into a lucrative opportunity for the waste industry. This investigation reveals that companies continue to dump millions of tons of old tyres, shoes, and even hazardous waste.

TREGOSA – The funding enabled SETE JORNAL to create the Portulano Digital, a platform offering free and open access to documentation relating to the decisions of Barcelos Municipal Council. By gathering, organising and making available thousands of documents that were previously scattered and ...

SLOVENSKE GORICE – OvtarCast on the Move brought local journalism out of the newsroom and directly into communities across Slovenske gorice. Through nine pop-up podcast recordings, Ovtar24.si created space for local voices, expertise and personal stories on issues ranging from healthcare, mental ...

IAȘI – The strongest impact is the overall growth on social media, where it increased its audience and its engagement. Its increased visibility on social media introduced its brand of constructive local journalism to new audiences in the larger metropolitan area of Iași.

BARCELONA – The project Empowering Caregivers transformed a group of isolated immigrant care workers in Barcelona into active advocates for their rights and labour visibility. Through targeted digital workshops, media tools, and institutional debates, the primary beneficiaries—migrant women ...

PALERMO / MATI - The Mediterranean wildfire crisis is not simply a product of climate change and bad luck. Fundamental policy failures that have undermined forest protection across Southern Europe lie at its core.

ELBLAG - Thanks to the support of the PM4D programme, portEl.pl opened local journalism to a younger generation and introduced short-form video as a permanent part of its editorial offer. Through the new "Elbląg w rolce" ("Elbląg in Reels") section, young residents were encouraged not only to ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA/KOLOZSVAR - The project helped Átlátszó Erdély reach new and younger audiences, particularly young people living in rural areas and small towns across Transylvania. Through short-form videos, local video reports and podcasts, the newsroom brought greater visibility to their experiences ...

ALTO MINHO - With the financial support received, the AltominhoTV project successfully developed and launched a mobile application for iOS and Android designed to address news deserts in the Alto Minho region. The new digital platform delivers hyper-local journalism and interactive features ...

LAZIO/ CATALONIA/ MADRID - “Madness companies” is a follow-up investigation for the Journalismfund-supported project “The Business of madness”. It focuses on how transnational companies specialised in elderly residential care are “assaulting” the more profitable psychiatric care, taking advantage ...

KIGALI - In the run-up to the first world cycling championship on African soil, Aaron Lapeirre travels to Rwanda to document the route.