The Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI) supports independent media and freelance journalists in Europe through training, mentoring, funding and the exchange of knowledge and best practices. It also provides structured networking opportunities to strengthen collaborative and investigative journalism in Europe. CIJI members include OBCT, Tactical Tech, Free Press Unlimited, Reporters Without Borders, Delfi and Fundacja Reporterów. OBCT acts as a regional hub for CIJI in Southeast Europe, coordinating a number of events in the region to produce a series of collaborative investigations with local journalists and newspapers.

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ENVIRONMENT Western Balkans: Europe's future mining colony?

Sanja Mlađenović StevićAleksandar Samardjiev | 28/6/2024

Are the Western Balkans becoming a mine of raw materials needed for the upcoming “green revolution”? Civil society organisations and many citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia answer resolutely: NO! The battle to protect the environment and health continues

POLITICS 2025 Elections: Albanian Diaspora Calling

Mary DrosopoulosÇelik Rruplli | 26/6/2024

One year ahead of the next general election, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has embarked on a tour across Europe to make citizens living outside the country “Proud of Albania”. But the issue remains the electoral code, which currently does not allow people to vote from abroad

REPORTAGE Migrants: all the doubts about the Rama-Meloni agreement

Erion GjatolliGiovanni Vale | 3/6/2024

Despite the inconsistencies and uncertainties around the agreement signed between Rome and Tirana for the reception of migrants on Albanian soil, and while awaiting the judgment of the European Court, work on the two centres has already begun in Gjadër and Shëngjin. We went to see how they were progressing

INTERVIEW Balkan rivers: "Water is never just water"

Marco Ranocchiari | 2/4/2024

The defence of rivers and water: a highly symbolic struggle which in recent years has successfully mobilised very different layers of the societies of south-eastern Europe, bringing to light both potential and contradictions. An interview

 

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