Supported projects

TEHERAN - The Islamic Republic regime in Iran has been oppressing its people for more than 40 years. In response to this repression and suffocation, the popular uprising of ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ is a powerful ‘no’.

BRUSSELS - After a delay of more than six months, the GATE drug consumption room opened its doors in the Belgian capital on 5 May 2022. Can this project succeed in Brussels and can this harm prevention tool be developed in other cities in Belgium, Europe and in Flanders?

WESTERN BALKANS - This project provided online training tools in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian-Montenegrian (BCSM) enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environmental issues.

VODNANY - In Babiš's poultry factories, there was an organised violation of the Labour Code, while the management of the poultry factories could not help but know that they were cooperating with the underworld in the exploitation of Vietnamese workers.

KYIV - The project aimed to raise awareness among the public and decision-makers in Ukraine and Europe of the ecological issues arising from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

ZEELAND - To whom does the Dutch province of Zeeland belong? Partly to Belgians, who own up to a fifth of the agricultural land in the southernmost part of the province. The Dutch research collective Spit and the Belgian platform Apache went in search of the large landowners and answered the ...

CROTONE - The price of energy from woody biomass. The video-investigation, lasting about 30 minutes, investigates the issue of deforestation aimed at the production of woody biomass, qualified as renewable energy sources by the European Commission and therefore subsidised by the Member States.

LJUBLJANA - What is the cost of security companies, such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and the injured. 

ARAGÓN / HEREFORDSHIRE / LOWER SAXONY — These regions have become areas with a very high density of intensive farms. An international investigation reveals the dynamics behind the expansion and the pollution of rivers, aquifers and even tap water that it brought along. 

PARIS - WAMM is an open source, GIS, web application that allows journalists and civil society to analyse and investigate West Africa's mining industries as a whole, and not on a country by country basis.

BANJALUKA - This project was intended for journalists of audiovisual, print and online media from Bosnia and Herzegovina with aim to increase their capacity for professional reporting on environmental issues.

COPENHAGEN - Through workshops, mentorships, and peer-to-peer collaborations, the project enabled journalists and media to build up their capacities and thus report on European companies and institutions operating outside their homeland.

BRUSSELS - Animal protein production accounts for 82% of food’s carbon footprint in the EU, and it is therefore necessary to curb livestock emissions in order to reach the goals within the EU green deal.

BELFAST - As part of a cross-border project to investigate the poultry industry on the island of Ireland, the investigative team from The Detail, Noteworthy and The Guardian took a deep dive into cross-border litter trade and the environmental impacts from the industry as it expands in line with Sta ...

BRUSSELS / AMSTERDAM - Jehovah's Witnesses are a large, global church community. Most people know them from their door-to-door visits. In recent years, they have been in the spotlight because of allegations of child abuse and the exclusion of former members.

PUNJAB - For years, the focus has been on men from Punjab who get trafficked to Europe, which is also colloquially known as Kabootar Baazi. This investigation by Journalismfund's grantees reveal how Punjabi women are increasingly being trafficked by travel agents from India, but due to the social ...

BRUSSELS - Today, plastics are everywhere. Metres deep on the seabed in the Mariana Trench. At the top of Mont Blanc. At the North Pole. In your blood.

KABUL - This investigation sheds a light on the scale of abuse that Afghan women face when attempting to reach Europe. Those without documents or money are vulnerable to trafficking by unscrupulous smugglers who exploit the situation.

ODEMIRA - Changing migration patterns mean that more Nepalis are now travelling to western Europe via dangerous, illegal routes in the hopes of obtaining residence in a European country like Portugal. 

LECCE - EVIA - The Mediterranean basin is a hotspot of the climate crisis, with average temperatures rising above global trends. Heat waves, droughts and a combination of anthropogenic factors are provoking new generations of wildfires that are devastating for ecosystems and for human societies.

ZAGREB - Nuclear waste in Croatia and Italy - this is the story of public interest and irresponsible politics.

ORANIA - Until thirty years ago, white Afrikaners dominated South Africa, today they feel like a threatened minority. The monopoly on agricultural land is disappearing, their culture is under pressure and many feel unsafe in the big cities. More and more Afrikaners are turning their backs on the ...

ABUJA - Nigeria is struggling with the threat of undifferentiated waste disposal and water pollution affecting the health of its citizens. Nigerian journalists Oke Peter and Damilola Shittu unravel how the effect of climate change, the inadequate waste disposal system and water pollution are ...

NELSPRUIT - From Oxpeckers, a project focusing on capacity development and professional support of environmental data journalists based in Europe.

BRUSSELS - In 2021, the EU launched the brand-new Farm-to-Fork strategy to make our agriculture more sustainable. Among other things, this strategy aims to ensure that meat production and consumption decreases in member states to reduce the impact on our health and the environment. However, this ...

BEIRUT - In the last decade, Denmark has promoted itself as a green frontrunner. But the investigation shows how Denmark is not only exporting windmills and green know-how, it has also supported and built polluting power plants outside its own borders. 

KISANGANI - The Children of Eastern Congo tells the story of two young people from the same region around Goma: child soldier Isaac and activist Rebecca.

LONDON – Air pollution is one of the most significant environmental health risks. According to the WHO, it causes up to seven million premature deaths worldwide each year, including around 379,000 in the EU and the UK. While we all breathe the same air, we don't all face the same risks.

JERUSALEM - The grounds around the Al-Aqsa Mosque are probably the most explosive powder keg of Israel and indeed the entire Middle East at the moment. The shrine in East Jerusalem has been the scene of violent clashes between Israeli riot police and Palestinian worshippers in recent weeks. But ...

ZAGREB - Women are losing rights everywhere in South-East Europe, first of all the right of abortion, but a new feminist movement is rising.