The Internews project Strengthening Independent Media (SIM) is accepting grant applications from Ukrainian media and content creators. The goal is to support projects countering Russian disinformation and ensuring citizens’ sustained access to relevant, trusted, and timely information.

The application submission deadline is 17 April 2026, 12:00 Kyiv time zone, Internews writes.

The grants aim to help professional media outlets reach new audience demographics through experiments with innovative content formats and delivery methods and to boost society’s resistance to manipulative information. Activities are taking place in the Baltics, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine.

Examples of content production or other approaches that applicants may consider include but are not limited to:

  • Launch or expansion of a reporting project that will interactively engage broader or new audiences.
  • Podcasts, short videos, or other audio/visual formats designed for mobile consumption.
  • Content or events designed to improve people’s resilience to disinformation.
  • Projects promoting diversification of the experiences and voices featured in media content.
  • Technical adaptation of the website for mobile consumption, implementation of AI tools for adapting content to different audiences and platforms (this should not encompass the whole grant, there should be content production results as well).

All content created under subawards issued as a result of this RFA must be made available free of charge to the public.

Internews anticipates awarding at least 10 subgrants of up to a maximum amount of USD $50,000 each. The performance period is expected to last at least three months and no more than six months. No subgrant period of performance will extend beyond October 31, 2026.

Applicants must be local independent and registered organisations in Ukraine. Applications from organizations registered in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, which have not changed their registration to government-controlled territories of Ukraine, will not be considered. Applicants must not be affiliated with any political parties, groups, institutions or their subsidiaries and affiliates.

Applications from existing grantees of the Strengthening Independent Media project will not be considered.

See the details here.