Applications Invited for Modern Slavery Unveiled

Organization: Journalismfund

Apply By: 15 Sep 2022

Grant Amount: 80000 Euro

About the Organization

Journalismfund.eu vzw is a Brussels-based independent non‐profit organisation incorporated by citizens in 1998, dedicated to advancing independent cross-border investigative journalism across Europe in order to promote democracy. It ultimately serves the public interest, furthers accountability as well as transparency, and contributes to critical thinking and well-informed debate.

Journalismfund.eu administers grants to foster exemplary investigative journalism throughout Europe and beyond and to promote journalistic innovation. Journalismfund.eu’s flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.

About the Grant

This grant programme aims to enable independent journalistic investigations into the exploitation of Asian victims of human trafficking and forced labour in Europe.

Cross-border teams of professional journalists can apply for a grant to cover working time and/or expenses to investigate, document and expose aspects and cases of forced labour, cross-continental trafficking and other issues related to the exploitation of Asian victims in Europe.

Next to a grant, teams can also apply for a mentor to provide assistance with either the focus of the investigation or the need for competences in a specific skill.

Grant Size

The Modern Slavery Unveiled grant programme will distribute in total €320,000 over 4 application rounds.

The total available amount to be distributed per call will be €80,000.

The programme is supported by Porticus.

Eligibility

Teams of professional journalists from Europe and/or Asia are eligible to apply.

Team members from other continents are eligible as well, as long as the investigation focuses on an aspect of how Asian victims of forced labour are exploited in Europe.

How to apply

 Before you start, please consult the grant details, where you can find the rules, eligibility and assessment criteria, timing etc.

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:

• personal details of the team members
• information about the intended investigation
• information about the dissemination of your story
• a detailed budget

You will be asked to upload the following documents:

• copy of passport
• CV
• letters of intent from professional news outlets
• a detailed budget (please use our budget template)

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.

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