Journalismfund Europe is currently accepting applications for its Environmental Investigative Journalism 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apoly for it.
About Journalismfund Europe Environmental Investigative Journalism
The Environmental Investigative Journalism grant programme is designed to support cross-border teams of professional journalists and news outlets in conducting investigations into environmental issues connected to Europe. Recognizing that environmental and societal challenges often transcend national borders, this programme encourages collaborative journalism that exposes illegal, unreported, and unregulated activities impacting nature both within and beyond Europe.
Benefits of Journalismfund Europe Environmental Investigative Journalism
- The total funding available for the programme in 2026 amounts to €1,200,000, distributed across three application rounds. Approximately €400,000 will be allocated to each call, supporting multiple investigative projects.
Journalismfund Europe Environmental Investigative Journalism Requirements
- Cross-border teams of at least two journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the environment — environmental protection, destruction, biodiversity, impact of climate change on the nature, etc.
- Only applicants who are legally residing/registered in at least two different countries are permitted to receive funding.
- The applicants must be professional journalists or registered media companies.
- Personal references and links to earlier work are essential.
- News outlets must be legal entities officially incorporated at least 12 months prior to the application deadline.
- The investigation proposal must concern cross-border environmental investigative journalism on European affairs — in or outside Europe. Theinvestigation has to be of relevance for the European audience.
- Next to investigations into environmental issues that transcend borders, this grant can also support comparative investigations into local environmental issues and policies between two or more countries, regions or cities.
- The result of the investigation must be published by at least two professional news outlets in at least two different countries, one of which must be in Europe. Letters of intent for the publication of your specific investigation from at least two professional news outlets are required.
- Investigative journalism published by professional media in any form is eligible, whether print, online, broadcast or cross-media. Your investigation can be published as newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television documentaries and series, photo-reportages and books, podcasts and journalistic non-fiction books.
Application Date and Process
1. Before you start, please consult the grant details, where you can find the rules, eligibility and assessment criteria, timing etc.
2. After a one-time registration with your email address, you can access our online application form. You can freely navigate through the form to see which information you need to provide in your application. This includes:
- team members' details
- information about the intended investigation
- information about the intended publication channels, including letters of intent from news outlets
- a detailed budget, according to our budget template
You will also be asked to upload some administrative documents.
One team member can start a draft application. He or she can then invite multiple people to collaborate on the online draft. The online application-in-progress can be saved and further edited at any time.
Application Deadline
23 April, 2026
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