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The “WPK Innovation Fund Science Journalism” supports pioneers who break new ground in science and data journalism.
Exponential growth, incidences, virus variants: the relevance of science and data journalism has never been more evident than in the covid-19 pandemic. To support the journalistic pioneers that implement innovative projects in this field, we co-initiated the “WPK Innovation Fund for Science Journalism” in spring 2022.
The fund, under the umbrella of the Science Press Conference (Wissenschaftspressekonferenz, WPK) – Germany’s association of science journalists – offers financial support as well as free advice from a network of experts. In this way, founders in science and data journalism can find the best possible conditions to put their innovation project ideas into practice.
The “WPK Innovation Fund” explicitly addresses a broad audience: non-profit actors, individuals, media organisations, universities, journalism schools and mixed teams. The fund also supports applicants from outside journalism (e.g. programmers) who want to realise ideas for sustainable science and data journalism.
Shaping structural change and thus promoting the science and data journalism of the future – this is what we support by participating in the “WPK Innovation Fund”.
| Funding period | 2022-2024 |
| Funding amount | 50,000 Euro |
| Website | innovationsfonds.wpk.org |