Innovation
Award 2017 Nominee
Monitoring EU Funded Projects in Hungary
Antónia Rádi
András Becker
Katalin
Erdélyi
Brigitta Csikász
Ildikó Kovács
Gábor Vágó
Attila Bátorfy
Zoltán Sipos
Ákos Baranya
Ákos Maróy
Balázs Krich
Mihály Orsós
Csaba Tordai
Tibor Sepsi
Balázs Tóth
Krisztina Zala
The colour-coded feature highlights which areas received the most money during which periods, based on a scraped government database of EU-funded projects. Those interested can search by region, township or time period, to determine average funding amounts per capita, or totals for governed cycles.
Based on database entries and whistleblower tips atlatszo.hu journalists produced multiple investigative articles on some EU-funded projects, one of them ended up investigated by OLAF european anti-fraud agency. Some of these stories are illustrated with short videos and camera drone footage to make them more compelling to the reader.
The database serving as the basis of the feature is available at adat.atlatszo.hu/eu-kereso, while the map itself can be visited at adat.atlatszo.hu/eu-terkep. Resulting investigative articles and short videos are available at