Access to Information Programme, Bulgaria: One of Europe’s oldest and leading access to information organisations, AIP was founded in 1997 and successfully promoted adoption and implementation of the Bulgarian access to information law. AIP has extensive experience of working with journalists, who formed part of its founding coalition, and has conducted training of hundreds of journalists in Bulgaria and across central and Eastern Europe on the right of access to information.

Tactical Technology Collective: Tactical Tech is an NGO based in the UK and India which works to advance the skills, tools and techniques of human rights advocates, empowering them to utilise information and communications as a critical asset in helping marginalised communities understand and affect progressive social, environmental and political change. Its goals include finding effective ways for marginalised communities and rights advocates to create and disseminate information, and it works to decrease the security and privacy vulnerabilities of these communities by finding practical solutions to these challenges.

FOI Advocates Network: This network has over 160 organisations working on the right of access to information as members, around 45% of which are in Europe and would provide a valuable resource for assisting journalists from around Europe in filing request or with legal questions during the course of this project.

SEEMO: The South East Europe Media Organisation is a regional organisation operating under the auspices of the International Press Institute in Vienna. SEEMO has over 500 individual members (editors-in-chief, media executives, media owners and leading journalists), as also corporative members (media companies) and it works to promote press freedom.

SEENPM: The South East European Network for Professionalization of Media promotes excellence in journalism through policy initiatives, research and training. SEENPM unites fifteen non-for-profit media centres from eleven South East European and neighbouring countries.

Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIN) is a Bosnian-based non-profit organization dedicated to using high standards of journalism to provide people with the information they need to make informed decisions in a participatory democracy. They also seek to hold government and government officials accountable and to promote transparency through improving the freedom to access information. CIN is also a member of the regional network of reporters, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) is a group of editors and trainers that enables journalists in the Balkan region to produce in-depth analytical and investigative journalism on complex political, economic and social themes. BIRN works on publishing, media training and public debate activities and has become synonymous with quality, reliability and impartiality. A fully-independent and local network, it is now developing as an efficient and self-sustainable regional institution to enhance the capacity for journalism that pushes for public debate on European-oriented political and economic reform.