About us
Contrasting views and linking destinies, redesigning Europe from the ground up. Sphera is the network of independent media that plunges you into the soul of our continent.
To explore all the nooks and crannies of this world, we offer you several options: video reports and features, podcasts, social media content and events across the continent. Sphera defends a more humane and socially-engaged cross-border European journalism.
Cross-border journalism is journalism that goes beyond borders, allows reporters of different nationalities to work together and publishes in seven languages, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish and Hungarian.
Socially engaged journalism is journalism that pays particular attention to; social issues, the climate emergency, the quest for identity and stories of exile, the future of our democracies. Those themes animate our continent and concern us all.
Journalism that refocuses on the human being is a journalism which comes from the grassroots, which is immersed in daily life and brings to the surface beautiful stories and new, previously unheard voices. Finally it is cross-border journalism exploring this feeling of “European belonging” as more and more Europeans, and especially young ones, are more and more attached with the idea that our lives and destinies are more and more interconnected and intertwined.
Since its launch in 2021, Sphera has been growing thanks to a community of independent media and reporters across the continent who want to be involved in revamping the narrative of our continent. You can join this international community of citizens who have the power to put on the agenda and have the desire to confront our points of view and experiences with other people spread all over Europe.
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A journalism defending access to information regardless of borders
An editorial effort with a website video features and reportages, newsletters, podcasts and social media journalistic content
Multilingual stories accessible in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish and Hungarian
An editorial line focusing on ground realities in Europe and nourished by our experiences of crossing borders
Incarnated editorial products to cross perspectives on social issues at the heart of our continent
Offline events to meet our community
A team across the continent
Sphera was created and is led by former employees and contributors of Cafébabel, the first European participative magazine. Today, the media lives on thanks to its network of independent media and reporters and based in the four corners of Europe.
Our network of independent media
Core members
Media partners
Our network of reporters
Astrig Agopian
Amelie Reichmuth
Bernardo Alvarez-Villar
Sara Lemlem
Maïlys Gelin
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Sphera Network
Transparent funding
Sphera exists first and foremost thanks to the preparatory action “A European public sphere: a new online media offer for young Europeans “ by the European Commission DG Connect that gives us the beautiful opportunity to test and experiment the Sphera Network from 2021.
We received support by the European Commission. The editorial independence is guaranteed within the Grant Agreement.
However, this source of funding is not sufficient to cover all our activities. We have therefore devised a diversified economic model based on sponsoring fees, public and private grants and a production studio. Involving our readers in the financing of the medium is our next step and the best way to guarantee our independence and sustainability. We publish all our funding and its use on this page, which is regularly updated.
