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In 2023, the team of RE:Cover Ukraine: a Peer-to-Peer Journalism Project supported Ukrainian investigative freelancer Liubov Velychko. With the travel grant, she was able to participate in Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference organized by Arena for Journalism in Europe.

The main result of this visit, as we see it, was outlined by Liubov herself: “Not even every fifth investigative reporter in Ukraine can afford to attend a professional conference abroad. How else can we get to know foreign colleagues and look for partners in some large projects? Let’s be honest: online communication is a completely different reality, and even in high tech era personal contact has a much greater power.” 

“Riccardo Coluccini and Justin Braun, colleagues from Bellingcat and Lighthouse Reports, shared their working methods in big data research. For investigative reporters it is a task of increased complexity not to get lost in the information volume – hundreds of thousands of messages on social media. But informed means armed. The best result of the training session for me is to have an idea for a new publication afterward. And it came to me in this case, ”Liubov continues.

“This conference provided me with the opportunity to learn the tools for investigating corporate lobbyists in a master class by French Le Monde reporter Stephanie Orel. And Timothy Large, the Director of International Media Programs, explained how to correctly fill out grant applications so that media organizations could understand the idea and journalist’s capacity to do the job. The result: Stephanie inspired me with a topic for a series of lobbyist investigations, and thanks to Timothy’s tips, I successfully passed the most difficult selection of participants, writing a grant application for the project. Is it worth adding that travel grants play a vital role for reporters like me?”