Supported projects

ODORHEIU SECUIESC - To reach younger audiences, Uh.ro wanted to expand its content to include more videos. It implemented strategies to expand its video capabilities while keeping its team members’ needs in mind. Uh.ro successfully developed a comprehensive team-assessment framework that identifies ...

MADRID - Datadista recognised a lack of resources to efficiently manage and promote its content. To address this, it sought to streamline workflow, organise archived content, and build an intelligent repository to support its full editorial strategy: long-form investigations, website publications ...

IASI - Iașul Nostru sought to grow its following through informative, thoughtfully designed posts and stories aimed at bolstering its brand identity among 18-34-year-olds — a demographic that tends to consume news via social media and is underserved by traditional mainstream media.

MADRID - After carefully considering audience needs, Civio was able to successfully migrate years of content from social media to its website into a user-friendly database, "The BOE Hub."

PRAGUE - Ekonews identified a need among medium-sized Czech companies facing upcoming environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting requirements under the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). 

BELGRADE - Vreme’s project aimed to transform its free newsletter, Medjuvreme, into a paid version that would support independent journalism. With more than 11,000 readers already subscribed, it is developing a premium model that will offer exclusive, in-depth content for those seeking stories that ...

SLOVIANSK - The “Your Media, Your Voice” initiative was designed to build a more user-friendly platform for the Slovyansk media hub of Make Sense, in order to strengthen community ties with its audience and support independent journalism. The platform will give readers the opportunity to contribute ...

LIKA - For Lika Club, whose staff and resources are limited, competing for broader grants is unrealistic. Thus, grants and opportunities catered toward smaller outlets are essential to its success. Lika Club decided to use this opportunity to experiment with producing videos, which provided a ...

BUCHAREST - Context carried out a multi-phase digital engagement project designed to expand its newsletter audience, strengthen its base of paid supporters and experiment with new ways of interacting with its community. They did four coordinated campaigns, on tax redirection, newsletter growth ...

SZOMBATHELY - Nyugat.hu has developed and implemented an innovative, article-integrated audience-research tool. This has enabled the organisation to better understand its readers’ values, motivations, and willingness to support independent journalism via crowdfunding. 

KOLOMIIA - Media2Tickets aimed to update its website to increase audience engagement. After conducting various audience surveys and implementing design-thinking principles, the organisation was able to successfully increase engagement on its website. 

TIRANA - The “What Are You Thinking? A Media for You, You Are the Media” project attempts to bring the audience into the content-creation process at Gogo.al.

ONLINE – The goal of this fellowship programme was to train a first cohort of 3 environmental journalists working in different European newsrooms so they could involve citizens in their public-interest investigations by turning communities into active researchers.

HAMBURG – The annual conference NR24 under the motto "Now is the time - Research for Democracy" took place on 19-20 July 2024. Eight sessions on climate journalism were supported by Journalismfund Europe.

ODORHEIU SECUIESC - We publish hyperlocal content for the readers on Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania. By the project we would like to broaden our geographical coverage focusing on the larger area of Odorheiu Secuiesc and build a new direct distribution channel, a newsletter.

MADRID - In January 2023 Maldita.es brought together 20 journalists from across Spain for a two-day training programme for journalists to equip them with practical tools to fight climate-related mis-/disinformation.

GWENGAMP - We want to develop a video production activity for our media. Over a period of six months, we want to experiment with different video formats, to see which are the most effective, and which ones we want to develop next. This is a way to complete Splann! editorial offer by strengthening ...

JELGAVA - As part of the project, it is planned to improve and develop the information platform by expanding information dissemination channels (social networks). To achieve this goal, the aim is to create a new technical platform for both portals, connecting them to social networks, thereby making ...

PODLASIE - The project aims to present the issue of migration on the Polish-Belarusian border to the residents of Podlasie in an accessible and inclusive way. It assumes the creation of a news website and the organisation of a series of meetings in border towns.

GDAŃSK - The aim of the project is to have a better-informed and stronger Kashubian community and to make them more active and involved in the processes around them, participating in and influencing the life of the region.

KAUNAS / PLUNGĖ / JURBARKAS - We are building a map of local community issues dedicated to the communities of Kaunas, Jurbarkas, Plungė, and Neringa municipalities in Lithuania. This tool will encourage greater collaboration between local communities and policymakers, enabling journalists to become ...

ALCOBAÇA - “A nossa gente” is a series of multimedia reports with interviews of ordinary people from our villages and towns (farmers, fishermen, shopkeepers, teachers, etc,) that will be published in the print and digital editions of “Região de Cister”, a local newspaper that serves 3 municipalities ...

KOMOTINI - The project will assist Xronos Media Group to grow sustainably, empowering local communities towards active civic participation.

STRASBOURG - "Quartiers connectés" is a media education operation, which allows residents of working-class neighborhoods from Strasbourg to connect with professional journalists and popularize their issues.

NORTHERN GALICIA - We address our neighbors, the citizens of the 20 cities we report on, to tell them what interests them regarding current events and local projects, with closeness, but without renouncing rigor and creativity.

OSTRAVA - The Moravian-Silesian Region lacks independent investigative journalism for the proper functioning of local democracy. That is why we will establish a new independent media outlet "Okraj", an investigative and analytical regional editorial office that will not deal with daily news, but ...

FARO - This project aims to create a direct communication channel between the audience and our newsroom, making it possible for our readers to submit information that can be changed by our journalists into news. The main purpose is to serve a population that lives in regions of Algarve underserved ...

BROUMOV - The Participatory Journalism for the Periphery project will involve members of the public interested in journalism in the creation of content for the Our Broumov Region (in CZ Naše Broumovsko, abbreviated as NB) news website, the only purely regional media outlet that provides information ...

PLOCK - The project will be implemented in the płock county in Poland. It is a low-urbanized area near the city of Płock, inhabited by more than 90,000 people with no access to quality local news. The main goal of the project is to eliminate the news desert by launching of information sub-portal in ...

MOSTECKO - Alarm online daily's newly established regional editorial office will focus on one of the most vulnerable micro-regions in the Czech Republic - the so-called Mostecko region. This first local editorial office of Alarm is a pilot project of a long-term plan to enter the regions and ...