“Enhancing Audience-Supported Collaborations for Empowered Media and Societies,” co-funded by the European Commission, aims to support independent journalism by facilitating collaboration between journalists from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Greece. Press Start will be working together with Free Press Unlimited, Free Press for Eastern Europe (FPEE), and the Prague Media School.
Press Start is seeking applications from teams of journalists (teams of at least two journalists) from eight target countries*, who will work together on a journalistic project of their choice. Teams whose proposals meet those criteria and successfully pass screening process will have their campaigns launched on the Press Start crowdfunding platform. Press Start will help successful applicants create crowdfunding campaign material as well as assist in campaign promotion. It will also provide matching funds, meaning for every Euro pledged Press Start will contribute a Euro to the campaign, to give journalists’ campaigns the best chance of success.
Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to develop your collaborative journalism skills, network with journalists outside your home country, and get your project financed through crowdfunding!
All about application process and requirements – on the Press Start website.
*Only applicants from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Greece are eligible to apply.
Application deadline: 17:00 (CEST), 31 October 2020