CEE AI
LAB.

A 9-month container that brought 20 newsrooms from across Central and Eastern Europe into the same rooms to reckon with what AI actually means for journalism done under pressure, with limited resources, in languages few algorithms understand.

Newsrooms

Countries

Months

Site Visits

WHAT
IT BUILT.

Concrete Policies

Three days of in-person workshops in Warsaw where newsroom leaders set concrete AI goals and drafted internal policies — not slide decks, actual decisions made in a room.

Staff Training

A second Warsaw gathering dedicated to staff training: reporters, editors, social media managers learning tools side by side, across languages and borders.

Site Visits

Facilitators traveled to Vilnius, Budapest, Kyiv, Minsk-in-exile, Bratislava, Bucharest and beyond, creating case studies from the inside of each participating newsroom.

Showcase

A concluding showcase where participants presented pilot projects, AI strategies, and workflows that didn't exist nine months earlier.

Peer Network

A regional peer network across 10 countries that continued exchanging knowledge beyond the program's end.

PARTICIPATING_NEWSROOMS

Darik Digital

Media Group 24 Hours

HVG

LRT

The Kyiv Independent

Gazeta.pl

Spider's Web

Tygodnik Powszechny

Denník Postoj

FactCheck.BY

WAS Media

Texty.org.ua

ȘTIRILE TRANSILVANIEI

NewsMarket

HOW IT
LIVES ON.

The 20 newsrooms carry forward AI strategies, internal policies, and pilot projects built during the program. The regional network — journalists from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia — remains active.

The methodology feeds into future iterations of the lab format, ensuring that Central and Eastern Europe continues to define its own digital future.

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