The Journalism Science Alliance hosted its first Meet & Greet session to welcome grantees from the 2025 call. The session gathered 51 scientists and journalists from the selected teams and some opportunities for collaboration between different teams have already emerged.
During a Zoom session held on 20 November, grantees introduced themselves, their extended teams and the projects they are about to start.
Grantees expressed how excited and enthusiastic they are about being part of the first selected cohort of Journalism Science Alliance, underlining that journalism and science together can tackle public interest matters, give voice to communities and increase public awareness in an enriching way.
The first call of the Journalism Science Alliance awarded almost one million euros in grants to 24 selected projects of journalist-scientist teams from 15 countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain.
The teams now have eight months to complete their projects of investigative journalism grounded in scientific evidence. Many projects deal with environmental issues, but other topics such as health, justice, politics, misinformation, or AI are also covered.
See all the information about the projects here.
