“Minority language media plays a key role in ensuring democracy and inclusion in the Baltic countries and we were glad to receive such an interesting diversity of applications. It clearly seems that there is a demand for our media grants program”, says Christer Haglund, Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Estonia.
The grand has received total of 75 applications. Of those, 29 were awarded support, of which 9 from Estonia.
Following a list of the granted Estonian projects:
- Feministeerium: “Improving the quality and increasing the amount of Russian-language media content that is created by and targeting minority and underrepresented groups in Estonia”.
- Novaya Gazeta — Baltics: “Young Russian Baltics: who they are”. Stories about young (16-25) people, living in ethnically diverse regions, their living conditions, working and studying opportunities, integration processes and relationship with ethnic majorities.
- Ida-Viru Creative Industry Centre: “TECHnolk 3.0”. Russian-language STEM-based tv-show TECHnolik for children aged 6-14, inspiring curiosity and STEM subjects’ learning.
- Estonian Public Broadcasting Radio 4: “KISA FM”. Unique online project intended for Russian-speaking young people. KISA FM is an evolving experimental platform for younger people to test new ideas and media formats.
- Kultuuritahvel: “Publishing the newspaper Vestnik Tartu”. Continuation of publishing the Vestnik Tartu newspaper.
- EMCC: “Increasing the quality of Propastop Russian version”. The Projects goal is to increase the quality of the Russian version of Propastop’s electronic magazine.
- Turundusproff: “Introducing Russian speaking leaders to Estonians”. Publishing articles about Russian speaking leaders.
- Prospekt-Media: “Neighbours”. Three independent Russian-language Internet portals prospekt.ee (Narva, Estonia), grani.lv (Daugavpils, Latvia) and news.tts.lt (Visaginas, Lithuania) will exchange their journalistic articles once per month and publish them respectively on their websites.
- Edasi.org: “Vertical, step 2”. Politically non-opposing and future-minded essays, opinion articles and interviews in Russian language, focusing on Estonia, the region and the world in general.
All funded projects have to be freely accessible to a national or global online audience without any access barriers such as pay walls or registration. The grant allows for full editorial independence and the Nordic Council of Ministers shall not exert any influence on the editorial decision-making of the media production.
This grant scheme is a continuation of The Nordic Council of Ministers’ support program for media production, media knowledge, and media literacy for the minorities in the Baltic countries. The program has been awarding media support in the Baltic countries since 2017. One round of the grants is awarded per year. The grant is implemented by the the Nordic Council of Ministers’ offices in the Baltic countries.
For more information, visit www.nordicmediagrants.org
For more information:
Christer Haglund
The Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Estonia
tel. +372 627 3100
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