IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme provides grants of between €5,000 and €50,000 to allow journalistic teams of any type — including newsrooms and specialist investigative outlets — to team up across frontiers on ambitious projects. The scheme will provide €1.2 million in grants in the 2026-27 funding cycle. It is managed by the International Press Institute (IPI).
There will be two calls for applications during the 2026-27 funding round.
- The first opens on February 12, 2026.
- The second opens on December 1, 2026.
The deadline for applications will be nine weeks from the launch of each call.
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AMOUNT
Applicants to the Investigation Support Scheme can request grants of between
€5,000 and €50,000.
To ensure that IJ4EU can fund as many high-quality projects as possible — and recognising that cross-border projects don’t necessarily have to involve many countries to have an impact — we encourage applicants to think in terms of the following informal tier system, which is aimed at encouraging a diversity of budget sizes:
Tier 1: EUR 5,000 to 15,000 – For smaller, highly focused cross-border investigations
Tier 2: EUR 15,000 to 35,000 – For cross-border investigations requiring substantial resources
Tier 3: EUR 35,000 to 50,000 – For cross-border projects of exceptional scale and/or complexity
APPLICATION DEADLINE
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine
ELIGIBILITY
- To be eligible under the Investigation Support Scheme, applications must be sent by teams of journalists and/or news organisations that meet the following criteria.
- Teams must have members based in at least two European countries that have signed up to the full cross-sectoral strand of the European Union’s Creative Europe Programme, which provides core funding for IJ4EU.
- Eligible countries include all 27 EU member states and the following non-EU countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Ukraine.
- Eligibility is based on residency (where you live and work) and not nationality (citizenship).
APPLICATION DETAILS
For all the application details please read the guidelines of the program
here.
NOTE
*The calls that are listed on our website are shared for informational purposes and are sometimes subject to change. Please visit the organization's official open call website for up-to-date information.
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