The European Investigative Journalism Conference

The Dataharvest 2026 programme is live – and our spring call for proposals is open

We’ve just published the Dataharvest preliminary programme – a huge thank you to everyone who pitched to us and helped shape it this year!

If you’d still like to attend, our spring call for proposals is now open. However, at this point, we are only able to accept a very limited number of pitches (for the remaining free time slots in the programme). Before submitting, do check the preliminary programme, as we won’t be able to accept proposals that overlap with sessions already confirmed.

You can send us your session ideas until Friday, 10 April (5 pm CET).

What type of pitches are we looking for at this point?

  • New cross-border investigations, big and small, published since our last call for applications, closed in January, or are yet to be published before the conference.
  • We are especially interested in the investigations on topics that reflect the urgent topics of our times, such as climate/environmental investigations, ongoing wars, and enablers of war crimes and genocide.
  • We are also looking forward to unconventional storytelling examples, proposals on how to investigate lobbying systematically, and interesting stories based on a (creative) use of freedom of information requests. We’ll also welcome your pitches about interesting data journalism stories and skills, and useful or experimental methods of collecting or analysing data.

If you pitched after the initial call and we didn’t include your pitch in the programme, please refrain from pitching again unless you have new revelations about your investigation/methods/tool that you’d like us to reconsider.

You can pitch your session via this form.

Also, please check out our general pitching guidelines here before submitting your pitch. Please note that we will only get back to you if we have accepted/shortlisted your proposal.

Any questions? Drop us an email at info@dataharvest.eu