EJN Biodiversity Media Grants 2026 (up to 12,000 EUR) – YOA

Deadline: March 28, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Biodiversity Media Grants 2026. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is providing grants to three to 4 media organizations in low- and center-revenue international locations to help initiatives that strengthen media reporting on biodiversity points.

To enhance understanding of the threats to biodiversity, and the options wanted to handle these challenges, EJN’s Biodiversity Media Initiative is providing media grants value 10,000-12,000 EUR every to three to 4 organizations for initiatives that enhance the standard and amount of biodiversity tales and construct the capability of journalists to enhance their protection of biodiversity points. Selected organizations can even obtain help from skilled mentors by way of their undertaking.

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• They anticipate supporting three to 4 organizations with grants of 10,000-12,000 EUR every. In normal, proposals with smaller budgets shall be extra aggressive. Larger grant quantities shall be thought-about for initiatives that use modern approaches and could also be extra resource- and time-consuming.  

Eligibility

• Media organizations in international locations categorised as both low- or center-revenue by the World Bank are eligible to apply for this OPPORTUNITY.
• They are particularly eager about supporting initiatives in biodiversity-wealthy areas of the world, or initiatives in international locations dealing with unprecedented biodiversity loss.
• This alternative is open to journalist networks, media organizations, civil society organizations or educational establishments. Although they’ll contemplate purposes by NGOs or environmental teams trying to construct the capability of journalists to cowl conservation points, desire shall be given to purposes from or affiliated with skilled journalists, media organizations and journalism colleges. 
• They won’t contemplate purposes rooted in advocacy or political campaigning.    
• For the needs of this grant alternative, they’ll solely be accepting purposes in English. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate purposes in different languages. Applicants will need to have a working understanding of English or have a translator obtainable to help with communication with EJN employees. 
• Existing or former EJN grantees are eligible to apply; they’ll take the efficiency of present or former grantees into consideration throughout choice, nonetheless they won’t help organizations that they awarded grants to in 2025.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the usage of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the appropriate to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, submitting AI-generated content material as their very own. 

Evaluation Criteria

Applications shall be evaluated utilizing the next evaluation standards:  

• The general high quality of the proposal;  
• The relevance of the proposed undertaking in contributing to the targets and priorities of this grant program;    
• The potential affect of the proposed undertaking, together with the standard and effectiveness of the undertaking design;     
• The modern traits of the proposed actions;  
• The monetary viability and value-effectiveness of the proposed exercise;    
• The skill of the applicant to carry it out;     
• The geographical unfold of the grantees. 

Application

For extra info, go to EJN Biodiversity Media Grants.