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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INVESTIGATION Ecocide and nature protection in the Balkans
Sanja Mlađenović Stević, Katerina Topalova | 20/9/2024After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia - known for their extraordinary natural resources and biodiversity - have been facing environmental crime and the devastation of nature
SOCIETY Sea, sun, and a good book: reading habits in Greece and Croatia
Mary Drosopoulos, Giovanni Vale | 30/8/2024The analysis between the two countries shows similar trends, with a rather low number of readers. In both cases, reading habits reflect existing inequalities at the socio-economic level
ENVIRONMENT The battle for the Shushica Valley
Christian Elia, Nensi Bogdani (photos) | 22/7/2024In Albania, when the protection of the Vjosa river and its tributaries seemed almost guaranteed, a project aimed at tourism development has once again called everything into question, threatening an area with a population of over 50 thousand people
The battle for the Shushica Valley
22/7/2024In Albania, a project that aims at boosting tourism in the coastal town of Himarë is putting at risk over 50,000 people living in the Shushica Valley, a tributary of the Vjosa river.
ENVIRONMENT Western Balkans: Europe's future mining colony?
Sanja Mlađenović Stević, Aleksandar Samardjiev | 28/6/2024Are 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 Drosopoulos, Çelik Rruplli | 26/6/2024One 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 Gjatolli, Giovanni Vale | 3/6/2024Despite 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 | 2/4/2024The 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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