Supported projects

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.

BRUSSELS - Our meat consumption must go down, and to facilitate this, an army of producers is ready with alternatives. Some found inspiration in age-old recipes, others are reinventing meat altogether.

COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan scientist, also a young mother, is trying to map the patterns of migrating coral larvae to protect the future of coral reefs and her people.

GALWAY/NUUK/REYKJAVIK - For months now, the North Atlantic has been plagued by extreme heat waves. The new high-tech research vessel the Belgica is sailing to the polar regions for the first time to document and investigate the effects of climate change in the oceans. Journalists Arno Van Rensbergen ...

COPENHAGEN - By 2050, the earth will have 10 billion inhabitants. At the same time, the area of available agricultural land per person is shrinking. As climate disrupts, classical farming systems are colliding with their limits.

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.

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.

BRUSSELS - We replace our phones every two to three years on average, and that's bad news for both the environment and the climate. This article investigates where the key problems lie, what governments should do about it, and what we as consumers can do to help.

BRUSSELS - U:nite works with a team of emerging actors and word artists to bring news to 16-24-year-old video consumers using new online formats.

ANTWERP - FactRank is a free tool that automatically filters out statements from Dutch-language texts worthy of fact-checking.

GHENT - In this project, Chase provided grants and coaching to young journalists so they could create digital stories about social change in urban communities.

GHENT - Sonderland was a journalism production house that produced pieces for other media outlets, focusing on one theme for an entire year. In 2019, the theme was “shelter” as a basic need.

BORGERHOUT - Apache Local was a local journalism project in which news site Apache explored four themes with the help of local citizens and journalists.

MECHELEN - The Wablieft centre for clear language developed an online news channel with quality news for low-literature adults.

GHENT - Podlab XL is a training programme for non-fiction podcast makers, that coaches audio novices from podcast idea to pilot.

BORGERHOUT - Factcheck.Vlaanderen is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to detect disinformation and polarisation so that fact-checkers can verify and combat it.  

GHENT - UITLANDER is a platform for high-quality, international stories about and by Belgians living abroad, made for the Belgian home audience.

VILVOORDE - With this project regional television broadcaster RINGtv aims to get young people more involved in politics and vice versa.

STUTTGART - The Emperor of OTRAG is a non-fiction story that tries to find out what forces led to the creation and demise of the first private space company and takes the reader from old West Germany to Mobutu's Zaire, Gaddafi's Libya, the Mojave Desert in California and an island in the Pacific ...

BRUSSELS - The deep, blue oceans are home to an unprecedented wealth of biodiversity, as well as the planet's last unexploited resources. The race to the ocean floor is in full swing and Belgium is in the leading group.

BRUSSELS - Belgians are top in sorting out garbage. But what happens to the PET bottles we throw in the blue bag? Exactly how many PET bottles do we recycle? And does recycling really reduces fossil plastic production?

ANTWERP - 5G promises to become the infrastructure of the future. For example, the new, fifth generation of mobile internet would be up to one hundred times faster than 4G, and will provide a platform on which new technology is built. The most innovative things, from remote operations to autonomous ...

BRUSSELS - When is the use of a subsidy for an independent entrepreneur justified and when is there abuse? Sofie Van Nuffel came across statements that suggest that not everything can be guaranteed by trust alone. 

BRUSSELS - The share of the pharmaceutical sector in the Belgian economy is large. According to the organization pharma.be in 2017, the sector employed 35,711 people and our country exported for a total value of 40.5 billion euros of medicines and vaccines worldwide, which is about 10% of Belgian ...

BRUSSELS - A six-part documentary series behind the scenes of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

BRUSSELS - Disposable nappies are largely petroleum-based products and crammed ones create a huge pile of waste. But they are handy. What can environmentally conscious parents do? Eos Magazine knocked on the door of all the major manufacturers and found out who has the most sustainable disposable ...

HANOI - Last year's publication of a scientific paper announcing Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier had succeeded in growing an airborne avian influenza virus in his lab in Rotterdam caused a big stir. Though inherently risky, such research was necessary, he argued, because it would teach us which ...

DESSEL - It is likely that the Belgian government will give the green light for the final underground disposal of nuclear waste before the end of the year. Cost: several billion euros. The taxpayer pays almost half of that. It remains to be seen whether the largest waste producer Electrabel will pay ...