Here are the new Constructive Institute fellows.

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

Activities in SoJo Europe

Read about our last SoJo Europe Summit here.

Read about our Scandinavian Study Tour here.

Read about our Grant Program below.


Grant Program

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.

Ukraine

Montenegro

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro

Albania

Croatia and Slovenia

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 Institue will give out 5 grants for newsrooms in Europe.
  • Each grant can be up to €10,000.
  • The aim is to develop a reporting project with Constructive Journalism elements to strengthen existing reporting.
  • There will be mentoring.
  • Constructive Institute will endeavor to link the newsrooms to leading Constructive Journalism practitioners and thought leaders in the Nordics.
  • The next application deadline is on the 6th of march 2025. Contact Cynara Vetch at cv@constructiveinstitute.org to apply.

What to include in your application?

Project outline

  • Project title and a concise description – Why does the Constructive Institute need to support this project?
  • Team members, media organisation and news room details

Method and timing

  • Division of tasks within the team
  • What is the expected timeline for your investigation? How long will your research/project take?

Analysis

  • What is the core focus of the project and what does your preliminary research show?
  • Describe in detail how you will incorporate constructive journalism approaches into your reporting project
  • How will your journalism find an audience?How will you learn from, collaborate with or connect with other newsrooms practicing constructive journalism in Europe?

How will your journalism find an audience?

  • In which media form(s) will your story be published? (eg. text, audio, video, event etc.)
  • Clarify whether this will be a series and outline the structure of the project.

Budget

  • Upload a detailed budget in an Excel spreadsheet with your application and the total requested grant (in €)

Mentor

  • How else can Constructive Institute support you (other than financially) in this reporting project?

To read the description as a pdf, click here


Timeline

16-22/02/2025

Study Tour to Prague, Novi Sad and Belgrade

27-28/09/2024


Contact us here for more information:

Cynara Vetch, International Project Lead, Constructive Institute

Peter Damgaard Kristensen, COO, Constructive Institute

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