" ECPMF | 5th annual IJ4EU Impact Award "
ECPMF | 5th annual IJ4EU Impact Award
IJ4EU honors excellence in cross-border investigative journalism with €15,000 in prizes
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Nominations are now open for the fifth annual IJ4EU Impact Award. If you’ve seen an exceptional example of cross-border investigative journalism over the past year, now is the time to shine a light on it.
Run by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), a partner in the IJ4EU consortium, the award celebrates investigative teams that uncovered groundbreaking stories that transcend borders in 2024.
Nominate now
The winners will be revealed at a special ceremony during UNCOVERED 2025, the annual conference of IJ4EU, taking place in September 2025.
In 2024, the award celebrated investigative teams behind The Pylos Shipwreck: Reconstruction of a Catastrophe, Story Killers, and The Border Graves Investigation. A special commendation was also given to Suspicion Machines.
This year, IJ4EU is eager to see which investigations have made a lasting impact.
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An independent jury will select three equal winners. Each winning team will receive €5,000.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
27 April 2025 at 23:59 CET
ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
ELIGIBILITY
Anyone can submit a nomination, including journalists nominating their own work. Nominated investigations do not need to have been supported by the IJ4EU fund.
To be eligible, the investigation must:
- Be a cross-border project involving journalists from at least two European countries that are part of the EU Creative Europe Programme (27 EU member states plus Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, and Ukraine).
- Have been published between 1 January and 31 December 2024 via a credible medium (print, online, TV, radio, documentary film, multimedia, etc.).
- Address issues of public interest relevant across European borders.
- Be available in any language, provided a summary or translation in English is included in the nomination form.
- Disclose any corrections, retractions, or challenges to accuracy.
A pre-evaluation process at the University of Leipzig in spring 2025 will assess nominated investigations, with a focus on the real-world impact of the reporting.
APPLICATION DETAILS
For the nomination procedure please visit IJ4EU's official website.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.
DEADLINE
2025-04-27
TYPE OF SUPPORT
Public funding
FUNDING COUNTRIES
All EU Countries
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CONTACT
deniz.bozkurt@ecpmf.eu