Supported projects

TIRANA / DURRES / BELGRADE / PRISTINA - Across the Balkans, particularly in Albania, a disturbing trend is emerging among organised crime figures and influencers: the ownership of exotic pets like lion and tiger cubs.

BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM - In June 2020, following protests in the United States, colonial heritage in Belgium became fiercely debated.

BUCHAREST – Europe is failing to manage its bear population. The large mammals are victims of human abuse, and humans are victims of bear conflict. Bear numbers are rising in southern Europe, where friction between humans and bears are on the increase.

MUMBAI - India is shaping the 21st century. What is driving this unstoppable nation forward?

KIEV - In January 2024, Dutch investigative journalist Linda van der Pol and Belgian photographer Gena Kagermanov traveled to Ukraine to investigate the impact of the Russian invasion on the Ukrainian cultural sector in several cities.

BUDAPEST - "If local democracies are the cornerstone of democratic societies, local and regional media constitute the foundation of a healthy and pluralistic media landscape."

BRUSSELS - Local authorities become slightly more transparent about municipal councils.

TYROL - As a result of climate change, droughts are on the rise in Europe and local and national governments are preparing for increasingly dry years. 

EUROPE - Affordable housing is becoming scarce in European cities.

DUBLIN/LONDON - The local authorities of Tower Hamlets in London and Drumcondra/Finglas in Dublin have been rolling out neighbourhood transport schemes to reduce car use and adapt their transport systems to favour greener modes of travel.

ESSEN/HOOGSTRATEN/PUTTE - Belgian real estate agents are seeing more and more Dutch people moving across the border, in a desperate attempt to find an affordable house in the border region. What does that do to life in a border region. Apache and OC Spit traveled from Essen across Hoogstraten to ...

SOFIA - Cities across CEE are struggling to build enough affordable homes for their populations.

BĂILE HERCULANE - A collection of hotels and baths that once made up an Austro-Hungarian thermal waters resort is being destroyed under the harsh weather of its surrounding mountains.

LUXEMBOURG - Worldwide, public transport is already free, either fully or partially, in more than 275 cities and regions. However, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is an outlier, having become the first country in the world to make all trains, trams and buses completely free for both residents and ...

ROTTERDAM / ANTWERP - What is the environmental and health impact of air pollution caused by the (petro)chemical industry in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam?

GOUDA/VENICE - Sinking Cities is a long-term multimedia project exploring what it means to live in sinking cities, and what is the impact of subsidence on the inhabitants of Gouda and Venice. 

GEORGETOWN - On behalf of US oil giant ExxonMobil, Belgian company Jan de Nul (together with partners) is building an artificial island off the coast of Guyana, South America.

BUDAPEST - In our articles, we were able to map the institutional background of how the sexual violence committed against a 15-year-old former foster child was covered up at a church-run institution.

EUROPE - Schools are crucial integration hubs. This investigation is about teaching migrant students in the schools of Europe.

BRNO - Novy Liskovec is a peripheral urban district of Brno, the second-largest city in the Czech Republic.

LEABGARROW - With islands across Europe having experienced years of population decline, many now face an uncertain future.

ALEXANDRIA - The Sinking Cities Project is an ambitious, six city investigation into how coastal area are preparing for the threat of climate change-caused sea level rise. Brought to you by Unbias the News and The Dublin Inquirer, the investigation targeted Alexandria, Egypt; Dhaka, Bangladesh ...

ANTWERPEN - Antwerp is being undermined. The port of Antwerp is the biggest cocaine import port in Europe. The drug crime creates invisible criminality that affects life in the city.

LEDEBERG - Exploring and getting to know one’s neighbourhood on foot was a rare outlet for many during the Coronavirus crisis. Illustrator Jeroen Janssen and writer Arezoo Moradi set out in Ledeberg, their little patch of motorway-lined land in Ghent, and continue to do so. He draws, and she writes ...

BRUSSELS - 'Back to Bled' is a contemporary story about the connection between the city and the countryside, starting in multicultural Brussels. The core of the documentary is friction; friction between city and countryside, ecology and economy, healthy versus cheap, connected versus uprooted.

BRUSSELS - 'Back to Bled' is a contemporary story about the connection between the city and the countryside, starting in multicultural Brussels. The core of the documentary is friction; friction between city and countryside, ecology and economy, healthy versus cheap, connected versus uprooted.

A'DAM / BRUSSELS - More and more people are moving to the city, but what does the future of these growing cities look like? Thanks to Journalismfund’s LOCAL grant programme, two media organisations (BRUZZ from Brussels and AT5 from Amsterdam) have teamed up for the first time to investigate the two ...

ANTWERP/ROTTERDAM - Heavily contaminated plastic waste from the Netherlands and the rest of Europe can be illegally exported via the port of Antwerp, unnoticed by inspectors, to countries where it ends up being dumped. Antwerp is an important hub for the international trade in plastic waste. But ...

KAKUMA - How do you build a home in a place called nowhere? Filmmaker Lieven Corthouts decided to stay in one of the harshest places on earth and make this camp his home.

AUSCHWITZ - Auschwitz evokes images of wooden barracks and gas chambers in which millions of Jews were gassed and burned during the Second World War. But it is also an average Polish village where 40,000 people live who are ordinary bakers, postmen or IT consultants.