Application Deadline: July 25, 2024

The Fossil Fuel Grant Programme supports cross-border teams of journalists investigating European fossil fuel companies and their global activities. It funds stories published in at least two outlets in different countries, with one being European. The grant covers expenses like travel, legal support, translations, and technology access, and offers mentorship. It’s backed by the Meliore Foundation and part of The Earth Investigations Programme by Arcadia.

Cross-border teams of at least two professional journalists and/or news outlets can submit a proposal for a journalistic investigation about an issue that concerns the European fossil fuel companies and their proxies within and beyond the continent.

Location: Europe

Benefits

• The total available amount to be distributed among all supported investigations will be €50,000.

Eligibilities

• 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. Only applicants who are legally residing in at least two different countries are permitted to receive funding.
• The applicants must be professional freelance journalists or news outlets. Personal references and/or references to earlier work are essential in that respect.
  News outlets must be legal entities officially incorporated at least one year before the application deadline of the grant call.
• The investigation proposal must concern cross-border environmental investigative journalism on European affairs — in or outside Europe. This means that the investigation has (also) to be of relevance for Europe.
  Next to investigations into environmental issues that transcend borders, this grant can also support e.g. comparative investigations into local environmental issues and policies between two or more countries, regions, cities, etc.
• 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 publication 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.

Eligible Regions: Open for All

For more information, please visit: https://www.youthop.com/competitions/grants/fossil-fuel-grants-programme-2024?ref=browse_page