Funding provided under previews programmes.

The Journalism Science Alliance (JSA) is a programme co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe Programme. JSA delivers grant funding, training, mentoring and networking to drive the production of local, regional, and transnational investigative journalism backed by science, and enhance cross-sectoral collaboration between journalism and research institutions. Supported by training and mentorship provided by JSA, journalists and scientists will work together to uncover new topics of public interest that will reach and engage (new) audiences for investigative journalism, while serving public interest across Europe. The Journalism Science Alliance is managed by a consortium led by NOVA University Lisbon, in partnership with the European Journalism Centre (EJC).

The scope of the call is intentionally wide and inclusive. Applicants are free to propose projects on virtually any topic of public interest where scientific evidence is relevant, needed, or can add depth and credibility.

Teams can apply for grants of €10.000, €20.000 or €50.000, depending on the scope of their project, the complexity of the proposed investigations, the number of partners involved, the nature of the associated tasks and the tentative timeline.

Grant funding may be used to cover any costs necessary for the development, completion and publication of the research and production of journalistic content, including salary and human resource costs, research-related costs, translation and travel costs. The only exception applies to equipment (hardware) costs, which are not eligible.

Grants are awarded for a period of 8 months. All funded projects must be finalised no later than the date specified in the grant agreement.

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture
• Public Administration
• Research, Technological Development and Innovation

• Educational Institutions
• Local Authorities
• Natual person / Citizen / Individual
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

The Journalism Science Alliance encourages submissions from staff journalists, media outlets, scientists, academia, research institutions, freelancers, and NGOs engaged in journalism or academic/scientific research.

The grants will be open to:

• Collaborations involving at least one media outlet (a media outlet refers to a legally registered platform or organisation that distributes news, information, entertainment, or other forms of content to the public. These outlets can include traditional forms of media such as newspapers, television stations, and radio stations, as well as digital platforms like websites and online news services) and one research/academic organisation (a research institution is a legally registered public or private organisation dedicated to conducting systematic investigations and studies in order to generate new knowledge, develop technologies, or solve specific problems across various fields of science. These institutions can include universities, government laboratories, independent research centres, or nonprofit organisations) working on an investigation on a topic of public interest, such as  climate change, healthcare, emerging technologies, local governance, etc. The list of examples is not exhaustive.
• Organisations need to be based in one or more countries that have signed up to the full cross-sectoral strand of the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, which provides core funding for the JSA.
• Organisations need to be based in one or more countries that have signed up to the full cross-sectoral strand of the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, which provides core funding for the JSA.
• Eligible countries include all 27 EU member states and the following non-EU countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Ukraine.
• The lead applicant is always a media outlet. The application should be submitted by a  journalist associated with that media outlet who will act as the team lead. This can also be a freelancer, as long as they are supported by a media outlet.
• Individual journalists and/or scientists can be part of the applying teams as long as there are at least two organisations already involved in the application (1 media and 1 research organisation), but they cannot be lead applicant.
• Media, journalists, scientists, and/or research organisations from outside of the Creative Europe participating countries will be able to be part of the applying teams, as long as these already include one media and one research entity that satisfy the eligibility criteria.

For further questions, applicants should contact the European Journalism Centre at: jsagrants@ejc.net

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