Supported projects

LISBON - "Listening To The City" is a narrative podcast series by Shifter Gen’s Lisboa Para Pessoas, launched as part of its entry into audio storytelling. A pilot episode was created and shared with subscribers for feedback, while significant progress was made on the other three episodes. The ...

LISBOA -  Mensagem de Lisboa launched and developed three editions of Lisboa Without Borders, an English-language newsletter focused on Lisbon’s foreign communities. The project took feedback from community members into consideration to deliver content that migrants in Lisbon previously lacked.

MILAN / BRUSSELS - As artificial intelligence expands across Europe, so does the demand for data centers. Traditionally hosted in cities like Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin, these hubs are nearing full capacity. Milan, with its strategic location in the Mediterranean, is emerging as ...

VIENNA - Nonstop News reimagined audio journalism by transforming it into a visually engaging experience. Through subtitles, data visualizations, animations, and platform-optimized visuals, the newsroom expanded its reach to younger audiences while permanently integrating visual layers into its DAB+ ...

GELDERSE VALLEI – Over several months, the team spent time with residents of a run-down high-rise development in the Dutch city of Ede. By engaging with residents, they discovered stories of resilience and community power, including a group of women who had built a self-support network that had been ...

OSTRAVA – To address the lack of in-depth regional coverage in the Moravian-Silesian Region, Okraj.cz launched the Local Lens project to cultivate a new generation of local journalists. Through an intensive mentoring programme, three young reporters published investigative features on overlooked ...

MIELEC – AWR Korso turned a largely absent local topic into a sustained public conversation about Roma history, culture and contemporary life in Mielec. The project produced 60 articles and 11 podcast episodes, supported by research, workshops and educational resources, while giving Roma ...

KECSKEMET - Through the PM4D-supported project, KecsUP strengthened its public-interest reporting on marginalised communities and underrepresented social issues in Kecskemét and the wider region. The project expanded the "Living on the Fringe" / "Peremhelyzetek" section and launched KecsUP Next, a ...

VRANJE - With the support of the project, Slobodna reč strengthened public-interest journalism in southern Serbia by bringing overlooked local issues to the attention of citizens and decision-makers. Reporting focused on child safety, cultural heritage, social inequality, and vulnerable communities ...

MILAN - [No] Zone di Sacrificio is an investigative and civic journalism project connecting Italian communities affected by industrial pollution, environmental damage and health inequalities. Through investigations, videos, podcasts, public data, scientific evidence and access-to-information tools ...

LISBON – With this project, DIVERGENTE developed tools to make the distribution of independent journalism more accessible and sustainable: a CRM to strengthen communication with institutions, local organisations and communities, and a dissemination hub where potential partners can discover ...

VELENJE - Empowerment Through Equity gave underrepresented people in Slovenia’s Šaleška and Koroška regions a stronger voice in local public debate. Through 36 radio programmes, 72 short segments, online stories and printed materials, Radio Velenje brought practical, accessible information to ethnic ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...