Call for EJN Grants for Text & Video Reports on Renewable Energy 2024 is open now!!!
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering support to communicators and social media content creators to produce in-depth reports on various aspects of the transition to renewable energy in India. They welcome pitches on the progress of the transition towards clean energy, the challenges ahead and how to overcome them, and scalable and replicable solutions that empower communities through decentralized renewable energy initiatives.
The transition to clean energy and clean mobility is moving quickly in India, but there is still a long way to go for the country to meet its commitment of installing 500 GW renewable energy (RE) generation capacity by 2030, nearly double the installed capacity in February 2026.
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The road ahead is promising but some obstacles must be overcome. They include payment delays to RE firms, inadequate grid capacity, lack of clarity on how to repower old wind turbines, shortage of land available for new projects and the uneven rollout of rooftop solar. It is important for communicators to draw attention to these challenges and point to ways they can be overcome. That is the way the public is made fully aware of the urgency to transition to clean energy, and the transition can become a peoples’ movement.
To promote this, Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is seeking applications from communicators and social media content creators for reports on RE. Selected applicants will be provided necessary financial support and 1:1 editorial mentorship on how to produce rigorous and impactful reports.
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They welcome proposals that seek to robustly evaluate aspects of the transition to RE in India, including issues of generation, finance, transmission, decentralization and community empowerment. They especially welcome proposals that look at replicable and scalable solutions to various challenges in the rollout of RE. They seek to support reports that will drive conversation and make an impact among communities and policymakers at the local, national, and regional level. Issues that have already received a lot of media coverage or don’t provide unique angles to environmental or climate challenges are less likely to be selected.
They are not looking for:
- Reports that prescribe or advocate for a particular response
- Reports that profile a particular person or organization and/or highlight solutions that are implemented by an individual rather than a collective
- Reports that report “good news” in an uncritical or overly optimistic way
- Reports that are self-published in blogs or newsletters
- Reports that are produced for civil society organizations or public relations purposes
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- Budget:
- EJN expect budgets for text and multimedia stories to be within Rs 1 lakh and budgets for video stories and joint stories by communicators and content creators to be within Rs 3 lakh.
- Costs for new equipment should not exceed 10% of the total budget.
- payment for the selected fellows (not to exceed more than 30% of the total budget) if the applicant is a freelancer.
- Acknowledgement of EJN support: Published reports must disclose EJN support by including this tagline: “This report was produced with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.” Exceptions may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Republication rights: Those who are awarded grants are free to publish or broadcast their reports first in their affiliated media as long as EJN and its partners are also given rights to edit, publish, broadcast and distribute them freely.
Eligibilities
- Grant committee will also give special preference to joint applications from communicators and social media content creators.
- However, the application must be made in the name of one lead applicant. Lead applicants are responsible for communicating with EJN and receiving funds on the group’s behalf, if awarded.
- For the purposes of this grant opportunity, applications can be submitted in English, Hindi, Marathi Odiya or Telugu.
- They welcome applications from communicators and social media content creators with a track record of reporting on environmental issues. Women and young applicants, as well as applicants from indigenous communicators and marginalized communities and those who are differently abled are especially encouraged to apply. They encourage applications from freelancers and staff from international, national, local or community-based outlets and social media channels.
- Content creators should actively and frequently post short-form videos on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X or other leading social media platforms, relating to topics such as lifestyle, social issues, travel, science, economy, politics, and health. Creators with an audience size of above 20,000 followers will be preferred. Prior content focused on renewable energy is not a requirement. However, an interest in linking your work to these issues is key.
- Communicators should actively and frequently be reporting through print, broadcast or digital media on energy issues and can be staff or freelancer. If communicators maintain an active presence on platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X, or other major social media channels and use them to share video or written content related to their reports, this will be viewed as an advantage. However, it is not a mandatory requirement.
- EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, plagiarism and/or submitting AI-generated content as their own.
Application Process
- Click the ‘Apply now’ button at the top of the official page.
- If candidates have an existing account, they will need to log in. Since fellowship committee recently updated the website, they might have to reset their password by clicking the “Forgot password?” link in the log in page. If they don’t have an account, they must register by clicking “Log in” on the top right of the webpage and click the “Sign up” link at the bottom of the page that opens.
- If they start the application and want to come back and complete it later, they can click ‘Save Draft.’ To return to the draft, they will need to go back to the opportunity and click ‘Apply now’ again to finalize the application.
- Applications should provide a detailed budget in an Excel spreadsheet with justification for the amount requested.
Application Deadline: April 15, 2026 (30 Days Remaining)
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