Call for Submissions: Climate Arena Fellowship

You can now apply to become an Arena Climate fellow and join their 2025 cohort. Fellowships are for those who have a cross-border climate story idea and are eager to work in a team setting. Your story idea could be investigative, data-related, or both but it should involve more than one country.

Topics

• Land Degradation
• Food and Farming systems

Benefits

• If selected, firstly you will attend a 2-day meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, 12-13 September where you will learn more about collaborative working and about each other. After this, on 10-11 October you will attend the Climate Arena Conference in Budapest, Hungary. They will cover travel, accommodation, and visa expenses for both trips.
• At these events you will workshop your ideas, working together to come up with workable, cross-border ideas, forming teams in pursuit of actual stories. After the conference you will be mentored and given training – including sharing skills with each other – as you work on your story.

Eligibility Criteria

• Early- and mid-career journalists from 46 member states of Council of Europe whose primary occupation is journalism. Both staff journalists and freelancers are welcome to apply. This opportunity is not intended for researchers, academics, campaigners, or NGO workers.
• They particularly encourage applications from journalists whose backgrounds are underrepresented in the European media.

Application Requirements

• Be related to issues around climate and environment
• Be cross-border, involving at least two countries – one of which must be a member state of the Council of Europe.
• Include your ideal headline for the proposed story
• Have enough details (not only “I want to investigate pesticides” but specifically what aspects you want to investigate, where, and why, including any specific connection you have to the story & sources, documents etc you have). You can be as vague or detailed as you want but it should give them a good understanding of what story you want to pursue
• Include why this story is important and why now
• Be your original idea and not generated by AI

For more information, visit Arena for Journalism in Europe.