Strengthened Cross-Border Collaboration: The consortium validated a new collaborative model by producing a multilingual investigative series on Ukraine refugees, reaching a wide European audience and proving that technical and editorial cooperation can strengthen independent newsrooms.

Empowered Professional Networks: By uniting five media partners and engaging over 13,000 unique visitors, the project established a new economic framework that promotes high-quality reporting and supports the financial stability of underrepresented and young journalists.

Evidence-Based Industry Insights: Taktak delivered two comprehensive White Papers and conducted surveys in 13 languages with over 400 journalists to provide actionable recommendations on the sustainability and legal protection of freelance journalism in Europe.

A Scalable Technical Solution: The project successfully launched the Taktak platform, a modular system featuring a validated donation widget and automated revenue-sharing tools designed for per-article contributions. The technology achieved high performance and security marks under ISO 25010 standards, ensuring a reliable infrastructure for independent media.

Freelance journalists and media companies interested in collaborating on an innovative new revenue model for journalism

2024–Present

• European Union

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (Transitions Promotion Programme)

• Consortium partners

• Worldcrunch (France)
• Livy Bereg (Ukraine)
• La Marea (Spain)
• Pod Tepeto (Bulgaria)
• Mensagem Lisboa (Portugal)
• World Association of News Publishers
• WAN-IFRA
• Athens Technology Center (Greece)
• Transitions (Czechia)