About the programme
The programme provides short-term grants for journalistic investigations, reporting, and content production. Applications are accepted from editorial offices and freelance journalists from Ukraine on topics such as Russian invasion and war crimes, social, cultural, historical, and other issues. The projects created or published in cooperation with German media are given special consideration.
Conditions and extent of support
The programme provides grant support from 3,000 to 12,000 euros. The application must be submitted using this form and should be designed as a short-term media project. It is possible to co-finance an existing project in the final stages of its realisation. The support can thus be provided for the full realisation or completion of the project, promotion, increase in the number of publications, translation, or content repackaging .
Grant funds can be used to cover the costs of staff involved in the project, honoraria, equipment rental, and travel expenses. This grant cannot cover the costs of purchasing hardware/equipment.
Reporting
Reporting must be submitted after the implementation of the project until the end of January 2024 as a short description of the project results and main activities, with links to the final publications. Reports and investigations can be published after the end of the project but not later than April 2024. In this case, a draft version of the publication indicating the expected date and format of publication, the expected audience reach and the promotion plan must be attached to the report.
Deadline
Application deadline: 30 November, 2023, 23:59 CET. The deadline can be extended by a few days under exceptional circumstances. To do so, please send a request to info@jinn-media.org.
Eligibility criteria
- Editorial offices, freelance journalists, data researchers, and media start-ups from Ukraine are eligible to apply.
- Relocated media, as well as media operating from Ukraine, are welcome to apply.
- Applicants must be active journalists or researchers who can demonstrate their media products published in the last six months.
- Applicants must not be connected to a political party, political institution, or businesses and individuals sanctioned by the EU.
- Projects should be related to current topics, for example, German and European politics, the situation in Ukraine during the war, resistance, and life of the Ukrainian people in the occupied territories, and analysis of the current situation in politics, society, and culture, or study of the socio-political situation, and the like.
- Projects connected with Germany or implemented jointly with German media have priority. However, the absence of such connections is not a criterion for eliminating an application from the competition.
- Using innovative methods of data analysis and investigations, as well as publishing stories and media projects using modern formats that allow for increased audience coverage, will strengthen the application.
