Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism by Journalismfund Europe (€84,000 total grant)

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About Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism

This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.

• Sponsor Organisation: Journalismfund Europe

Benefits of Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism

The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported projects will be around €84,000. The total budget for 2025 is €252,000.

Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism Requirements

• This grant programme is open to legal entitieswith a proven track record of working with journalists and/or on environmental issues. The jury evaluates organisation's demonstrable expertise in this respect.

• The organisation must have been officially incorporated at least one year before the application deadline of the grant call.

• Eligible proposals entail professional development activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism in Europe. These can be training sessions, fellowship programmes, or other activities, services or tools that enable investigative journalists to better investigate environmental issues.
• The project should be clearly defined and limited in time.
• The grant cannot be used for core funding or for financing permanent operations of an organisation.
• Individuals (natural persons) cannot apply for this grant.
• If the project is a collaboration between several organisations, only one organisation should apply for this grant, simply mentioning others as partners.

Eligible and non-eligible costs

Eligible costs for funding:

Personnel and operating costs that meet the following cumulative conditions:

• are directly attributable to the project,
• arise after the signing of the grant agreement with Journalismfund Europe, and only during the project period,
• are deemed necessary for implementing the project,
• effectively incurred by the grant beneficiary, identified and verifiable,
• not funded by other donors or support programmes.

Non-eligible costs for funding:

• personnel and operating costs not directly attributable to the project,
• internal rental costs (e.g. rent paid to oneself - as owner - of premises or other infrastructure),
• overhead costs,
• meal costs, food and beverages,
• tangible investment goods (e.g. IT equipment or personal protective equipment),
• recoverable VAT.

Applications need to include a budget calculation according to the budget template.

Please read the instructions tab in the budget template carefully.

Deadlines and timing

• The average interval between grant calls for this grant programme will be four months.
• For this grant programme there are 3 application rounds scheduled in 2025. Subscribe to Journalismfund Europe’s newsletter to stay tuned and receive the latest grant opportunity updates.
• After the application deadline, Journalismfund Europe checks that formalities are in order and may call for more information from applicants. This usually takes one week.
• Afterwards the applications go to the jury for assessment.
• Applicants are usually informed about the jury decision around 40 days after the application deadline.

Assessment criteria

• Track record and relevance of the partners involved
• Feasibility
• Complementarity and added value to existing and already supported enabling activities for investigative environmental journalism in Europe
• Quality and realism of budget plan
• Necessity of (co-)funding
• Professional development for journalists, not students of journalism

Finally, the jury will also take into consideration the variety within the global selection of granted projects. This means diversity in terms of:

• forms
• topics
• methods and approaches
• regions

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:

• information and documents about your organisation
• information about the intended project
• a detailed project budget, according to our budget template

You can invite multiple people to collaborate on the online draft application. The online application-in-progress can be saved and further edited at any time.

Application Deadline

09 October, 2025

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