2025 was a remarkable and at times challenging year for our project work. We celebrated many major milestones, with the launch of several new projects, a focus on youth, innovation, and helping strengthen local media, among many other achievements. Here are some of our project highlights:
LIMENet awarded grants to local and independent media outlets and journalists in Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Serbia for innovative and creative projects to support media viability and resilience. They include collaborations between media, non-profits and universities to expand youth audiences and produce health stories, the development of an innovative content production system to increase audience reach by repurposing original content in different formats, and the inclusion of Roma youth in covering pressing yet underreported issues to strengthen investigative community journalism.
The LIMENet Media Innovation Fair in Budapest in March brought together over 100 media professionals from across Europe and beyond, for workshops in inclusive journalism and thought-provoking panels tackling the pressing challenges facing local media today. The event underscored what many in the sector already know: there is no silver bullet to save journalism, but there is strength in collective experience and innovation.
