Three young journalistic projects from Germany and Switzerland have been awarded the 2024/2025 Grow Scholarship by Netzwerk Recherche and the Schöpflin Foundation. The scholarship honours media projects that promote non-profit and public-interest journalism and media diversity.

The Kremlin is currently expanding its digital censorship. One of the most important goals: to block independent Russian media abroad. The JX Fund has now summarized the situation of these media in the study “Locking Down the Windows”.

The organisation AlgorithmWatch, a funding partner of the foundation since 2019, has been awarded the 2024 Federal Consumer Protection Prize. In this interview, Matthias Spielkamp, the NGO's executive director, explains where artificial intelligence can disadvantage people in their daily lives – and why the market power of the big tech companies can be dangerous for democracy.

Publix is celebrating its opening with a conference, a welcoming event and an open house. The prelude to this was a press conference, at which the new establishment's mission was presented.

Non-profit organizations may express criticism of the policies of parties, even if they receive government funding. That is the central finding of a new report.

Netzwerk Recherche and the Schöpflin Foundation open applications both for the Grow project Scholarships for non-profit journalism and for the Greenhouse Fellowship 2024.

Through its "Election Participation Initiative" the Schöpflin Foundation will award an additional €500,000 to organisations that inspire people to exercise their right to vote.

In July 2024, the first cross-border fund - the "Media Forward Fund" - will be launched to promote journalism in the German-speaking zone (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

In an open letter to the German federal government, eight non-profit funding foundations call for the full implementation of the coalition agreement.

On 29th July, the summer holiday workshops at Werkraum Schöpflin will begin. Registrations are now open.

Cologne’s Senior Public Prosecutor, Anne Brorhilker, Germany's most successful CumEx investigator, is joining the executive board of the citizens' movement, Finanzwende.

On the occasion of its 5th anniversary, our funding partner FAIR SHARE is hosting a multifaceted festival.