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Western Balkan PSM Awarded EU Grants

Five public service broadcasters in the Western Balkans—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo*, and Serbia—have each been awarded €60,000 EU grants to co-finance their innovation projects over the next 12 months. These initiatives focus on advancing children, youth and minority programming, upgrading technology, improving content, and boosting community engagement.

These five innovation projects will begin in October 2024 and run for 12 months. The grants are part of the EU-funded Innovation. Media. Minds: Support to Public Service Journalism in the Western Balkans Program, managed by the Goethe-Institut on behalf of the European Commission, in collaboration with DW Akademie.  The IMM Program works on improving governance, expanding audiences, and enhancing the quality of content produced by Western Balkan public service media.


*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244