Media Resilience Lab

Independent reporting across the Eastern Partnership region is increasingly shaped by political pressure, transnational repression, internet shutdowns, restricted access to information, and shrinking resources. The Media Resilience Lab provides fellowships and supports journalists in exile and in-country, combining newsroom support with structured training and international cooperation to build long-term investigative capacity and stronger regional networks.

• Strengthen independent reporting under conditions of repression and limited access to information
• Build sustainable investigative capacity through skills, networks, and newsroom support
• Enable cross-border cooperation that increases impact and resilience across the region

Regions

The programme is targeted at media workers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, other Eastern Partnership countries, and Germany, based in-country or in exile, who collaborate with displaced newsrooms or report across borders.

Trainings

• Storytelling
• Video reporting
• Data journalism
• Fact-checking
• Security
• Collaborative journalism
• Cross-border investigations

Timeline

April 2026
First call for fellowships applications

June 2026
Call for applications: Training Programme “Investigative Reporting”

August 2026
Second Call for fellowships applications

September–November 2026
Online training

January 2027
Third Call for fellowships applications and training “Cross-Border Journalism”

June 2027
Summer School

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