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In Money Trail, Journalismfund.eu offers working grants for (teams of) African, Asian and European journalists to investigate cross-border illicit financial flows, tax abuse and corruption in Africa, Asia and Europe. Grants are awarded to journalists solely by Journalismfund.eu, with no input or oversight at any stage from the consortium as a whole.
The primary goal of this grant is to expose illicit finance and tax abuse.
Who can apply?
In order to be eligible for application, the journalists have to ensure that their story will be published. Therefore, during the application procedure, they will be asked to upload commitment of publication from relevant media organisations.
There are so many stories all over the world yet to be told. This is your chance to help tell them.
RULES + TIMING
There will be 10 application rounds over the three years: 2018 - 2020. For the next round, we have around 50.000 euro to distribute to different teams.
Underneath an approximate application timeline, some info about the criteria and the budget.
In general
Money Trail offers working grants for African, Asian and European journalists to investigate cross-border illicit financial flows, tax abuse and corruption in Africa, Asia and Europe.
After the application deadline, Journalismfund.eu checks that formalities are in order and may call for more information from applicants. This usually takes one week.
After this, the applications go to the jury who makes the final decision.
Applicants are usually informed around 30 days after the deadline.
Both Journalismfund.eu and the jury are bound to strict confidentiality—before, during and after evaluation of the proposals.
Some applications can be refused on budget grounds. See budget template further below.
There will be 10 application rounds over the three years (2018/2019/2020). These are the next application deadlines:
The applications are assessed by a separate, independent, anonymous jury of four people with ample experience in investigative journalism in Africa, Asia and Europe. The jury members are chosen by Journalismfund.eu and suggested by the Money Trail consortium and the advisory board of Journalismfund.eu. Their names will be made public after all grants have been awarded.
The jury will decide on journalistic criteria:
Applications will be assessed based on 9 criteria in relative weight to each other:
1. Added value compared to mainstream coverage / a forgotten story |
13 |
2. Relevance in society |
13 |
3. Originality and innovative ideas, research methods |
9 |
4. Feasibility |
11 |
5. Experience of the applicants, references |
5 |
6. Saleability, newsworthiness |
11 |
7. Work effort requirement |
8 |
8. Cross-border stories, cooperation between colleagues in different countries, |
15 |
9. Being a watchdog of institutions, policies, money |
15 |
Total |
100 |
In order to be eligible for application, the journalists have to ensure that their story will be published. Therefore, during the application procedure, they must upload commitment of publication from relevant media organisations.
Journalismfund.eu supports costs related to journalistic research for all media. A grant can cover two types of costs:
Download the budget template HERE. Your budget must be in Excel.
The total available amount per application round is around 50.000 euro: this amount is distributed among different projects. The money comes from the Dutch Nationale Postcode Loterij.
If you think you will not be able to meet all these conditions, please contact Journalismfund.eu before applying.
Through a secure online application module. You can enter the module by clicking at the bottom of this page.
To see a preview of the application form, you can download it here. You can download a Word document with the questions here.
Read, understand and respect the rules for application before applying.
Application Link https://moneytrail.journalismfund.eu/en/user/login
Complete Details on the Grant https://moneytrail.journalismfund.eu/en/rules
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