Current projects

Georgian Independent Media Consultancy and Technical Support Project: NED and the Open Society Georgia Foundation; This project aims to increase the impact of targeted independent media institutions in Georgia, allowing them to play a greater role in the increasingly government-controlled media.; read more about this project

Advancing Roma Visibility: Co-funded by the European Union under the IPA 2009 – Civil Society Facility – Regional Programmes; This project is aimed at improving media reporting of Roma communites in the Balkans.; read more about this project

Support of Active Citizenship and Involvement of Youth in Public Life in Georgia: Transition Promotion Program of the Czech Foreign Ministry; This project aims to increase and support the active citizenship of Georgian youth and to enable a gradual increase of their influence on public life in Georgia.; read more about this project

A Push for Plurality: Diversifying Information in Central Asia: UNDEF (The United Nations Democracy Fund); This two-year project is designed to diversify the information currently available to the citizens of Central Asia.; read more about this project

Central Asian Blogging and Organizational Development: Hivos; The project aims to secure the future of Neweurasia and to further TOL’s organizational development.; read more about this project

Promoting Environmental Civic Journalism in Russia: NED and The Open Society Institute; This project gives a platform to still largely neglected issues concerning the environment, including in the area of investigative journalism. This digital project will help “connect the dots” on these issues across communities.; read more about this project

Reporting the Environment in Serbia: The project is co-financed by the European Union within the ‘Strengthening Serbia-EU Civil Society Dialogue’ Project, which is managed by the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by GOPA Consultants.; Since June 2010, Transitions has been implementing Reporting the Environment in Serbia, a training project for journalists covering issues related to the environment.; read more about this project

Promoting Blogging and New Media in Azerbaijan: IREX; The project promotes Internet publishing, blogging, social media, and other new media tools to increase media plurality and civic activism in Azerbaijan.; read more about this project

Developing the New Media Community in Moldova: National Endowment for Democracy; The project aims to nurture a core group of new media enthusiasts in Moldova through in-country workshops and out-of-country training opportunities.; read more about this project

Reporting Roma Issues in New Member States of the European Union: Open Society Foundation Media Program, Erste Foundation, and the Embassy of the United States, Prague, Czech Republic; This year-long project will give advanced multimedia skills to Roma and majority community reporters in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, promote cooperation between them as well as produce a significant amount of media content.; read more about this project

Promoting Blogging and Citizen Media in Azerbaijan: National Endowment for Democracy; TOL’s project in Azerbaijan is a one-year plan to increase media pluralism and civic activism in Azerbaijan through promoting the use of new media techniques among journalists, NGOs, youth movements, and other civil society organizations.; read more about this project

Raising Public Awareness of Education Issues: Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute; The project trains journalists through distance learning courses, workshops, and other resources to report on education-related topics while also raising public knowledge of education issues throughout TOL's coverage region and beyond.; read more about this project