The European Investigative Journalism Conference

Dataharvest 2025 is over. See you in Mechelen in 2026! Save the date ⬇️

Please find the 2025 conference program, presentations and picture gallery on the Program page.

  • The Dataharvest 2025 Illustration Gallery

    The Dataharvest 2025 Illustration Gallery

    The tradition of capturing Dataharvest via live illustration lives on! This year, Brussels-based illustrator Pieter Fannes returned to the conference to deliver his beautiful snapshots of our community. Conference-goers can see Pieter’s works in progress as he sits among them in sessions and, throughout the conference, as he completes drawings, drafts are displayed on the…

  • “The power of Dataharvest in action”: Our summary of the 2025 conference

    “The power of Dataharvest in action”: Our summary of the 2025 conference

    At another sold out Dataharvest, 500 journalists from around the world arrived in Mechelen, Belgium to launch or continue collaborations, hear each other’s stories and understand each other’s work, and share the skills that make contemporary investigative journalism so powerful. But we know many of our friends and colleagues were not able to make it this year. So,…

  • Send us your pitches – spring call for proposals open!

    Send us your pitches – spring call for proposals open!

    Dataharvest preliminary programme is out – and we have just opened another call for proposals! At this point, we are only able to accept a very limited number of pitches (for approximately ten time slots left to complete the programme). We kindly ask you to check out the published version of the preliminary programme before…

  • Kickstart your data journalism

    Kickstart your data journalism

    Do you consider yourself a beginner when it comes to data? Would you like an overview of how data journalism is done and try your hand at it? We no longer run beginner sessions at the Dataharvest conference, but over the coming months, you can join us as we show how to analyse data using…

  • Dataharvest 2025 – apply for participation grants

    Dataharvest 2025 – apply for participation grants

    Dataharvest – the European Investigative Journalism Conference is happy to offer a (limited) number of grants to help reduce financial barriers for journalists wishing to attend the conference. The grant is aimed towards applicants from low(er)-income countries in Europe, especially members of small, independent newsrooms and freelancers. We define as European all the Council of…

  • Dataharvest 2025 tickets are sold out!

    Dataharvest 2025 tickets are sold out!

    Tickets for the 15th edition of Dataharvest have officially sold out in less than two months. This year’s conference has reached capacity earlier than ever before, with all tickets gone four months ahead of May 22. We know many of you are eager to attend, and we’re truly sorry we can’t welcome everyone this year.…