The 2026 call for applications for the Journalism Science Alliance grants opens today. Following the call in 2025, the programme, co-funded by the European Union, will award an additional one million euros in grants to journalist-scientist teams across Europe who want to develop investigative journalism projects backed by science.
These grants aim to fund, over an eight-month period, the production of high-quality investigative journalism work based on scientific evidence, with local, regional and transnational impact. The projects must address issues of public interest.
Applications will remain open until 23 March 2026, at 17:00 CET
Journalists from all media formats – print, broadcast, digital, multimedia, and documentary – and scientists from any relevant discipline are welcome to apply. Each team must include at least one media outlet (lead applicant) and one research or academic institution (co-lead), including universities.
In addition to funding, selected teams will receive mentorship, access to training sessions, and opportunities to participate in networking events with other grantees.
Teams can apply for grants of € 10 000, € 20 000 or € 50 000, depending on the scope of their project, the complexity of the proposed investigations, the number of partners involved, the nature of the tasks, and the tentative timeline.
The first call of the Journalism Science Alliance, in 2025, selected 24 projects of journalist-scientist teams from 15 countries, awarding almost one million euros in grants.
Applications must be submitted in English through the European Journalism Center Platform.
Learn here more about the Journalism Science Alliance grants and how to apply.