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SoJo Europe is a partnership program between Transitions, Journalismfund Europe, SEENPM, Constructive Institute and the European Union that promotes solutions journalism.

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Five grantees have received 10.000 euro each to do a constructive journalistic piece. Click through their pieces here.

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Activities in SoJo Europe

The activities within the SoJo Europe program consist of study tours, a grant program, international conferences and a training and mentoring program for journalists.

Read about our last SoJo Europe Summit here.

Read about our Scandinavian Study Tour here.

Read about our Grant Program below.


Timeline

16-22/02/2025

Study Tour to Prague, Novi Sad and Belgrade

27-28/09/2024


Grant Program

The aim of the Grant Program is to foster greater constructive collaboration among newsrooms across Europe.

This program responds to the need for greater collaboration among European newsrooms both to learn from best practices and also to launch collaborative projects to enrich their content offerings. It is especially crucial to break down barriers among regions in Europe and develop further cooperation between newsrooms in Central/Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

These grants aim to increase the connections and cooperation between Western & Northern practitioners of solutions/constructive journalism and their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe. It is a response to the need of newsrooms to expand their horizons beyond their own countries and regions to learn best practices and engage in meaningful constructive journalism projects.

  • Constructive Institute has given out 5 grants for newsrooms in Europe, each of up to €10,000.
  • The aim was to develop a reporting project with Constructive Journalism elements to strengthen existing reporting.
  • The grantees received mentoring.
  • Constructive Institute links the newsrooms to leading Constructive Journalism practitioners and thought leaders in the Nordics.

SoJo Europe Grantees

As part of the SoJo Europe Project five grantees have received 10.000 Euro to do a journalistic pieces using the tools of constructive journalism. Click through the five grantees below to view their pieces.

The Constructive Institute is an independent NGO embracing solutions, nuance and dialogue. Our mission is to bring Constructive Journalism to newsrooms worldwide.


Ukraine
News Media

Rubryka.

Reporting Project

Finding constructive angles amid destruction: Connecting Nordic Practices with Solutions to Ukrainian Problems.


Montenegro
News Media

Montenegro Media Institute and Čitaj Između Redova.

Reporting Project

In Silence: Mental Health, Firearms and the Hidden Risk.


Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
News Media

Eurovision News Exchange for Southeast Europe (ERNO), Croatian Radio Television (HRT), Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT), Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG).

Reporting Project

Triggering Change: Public Broadcasters Investigate Gun Culture, Violence and Mass Shootings in the Balkans.


Albania
News Media

Gogo.al.

Reporting Project

What do others do better? Changing the mindset of the newsroom and reporting practices.


Croatia and Slovenia
News Media

Ovtar24.si LikaClub.

Reporting Project

Rural Farming First-Hand: The Future of Agriculture.


Get in contact

Bio

Cynara Vetch is Project Lead for international projects and partnerships. Previously she worked for over a decade with international news broadcasters including Al Jazeera, BBC and CCTV Africa in the Middle East and Africa. She also led media development projects using media programmes to both inform and entertain.

Background

Cynara’s background is in journalism innovation, looking for new and better ways to reach and hear under served audiences. She has an Erasmus masters in Journalism, Media and Globalisation.

Bio

Peter Damgaard Kristensen, MSc Political Science, CFOO (Finance and Operations), Constructive Institute. Peter is overseeing and co-developing a number of CI’s development projects.

Background

He has previously worked in the university sector and has extensive experience in project management, public affairs and policy advice. Furthermore, he has worked as a consultant on various large scale research applications and has helped develop the scopes and frameworks for several research projects.