Applications are currently being accepted for the DW Akademie Dialogue Fund: Innovation and Integrity 2025. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About DW Akademie Dialogue Fund: Innovation and Integrity
Opportunity Details
DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle's center for international media development, journalism training and knowledge transfer. Our projects strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and unhindered access to information. DW Akademie empowers people worldwide to make independent decisions based on reliable facts and constructive dialogue.
Benefits of DW Akademie Dialogue Fund: Innovation and Integrity
The fellowship includes:
- a stipend of 4000 Euros
- coaching in your AI innovation and integrity project
- specialised training, if you need further skills to implement your idea
- check-ins with fellow community media innovators from Southern Africa
DW Akademie Dialogue Fund: Innovation and Integrity Requirements
- Your idea and your participation need to be endorsed by your organisation.
- You must at least be 21 years old (or older) and have a passport (if from outside Namibia) and be able to travel to Windhoek in Namibia (travel expenses will be covered).
- You must be based in Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe or in Botswana, Zambia, Eswatini, Lesotho.
- You must commit to ethical journalism and its guidelines (like the core principles of the Ethical journalism Network)
Application Date and Process
- Application: You pitch your idea to a selection panel.
- Selection: We will contact short listed applications for short follow-up conversations before awarding the fellowships.
- IdeaLab: One week. Refine your idea. Build a prototype. Exchange with other innovative journalism practitioners from Southern Africa.
- Build: Use the resources and coaching of the fellowship to develop your idea in practice. DW Akademie will provide seed funding as well as coaching and technical support.
- Exchange: Engage with fellow media innovators from Southern Africa and get feedback on your ideas. Join a community for innovation.
Application Deadline
23 November, 2025
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