Duration: October 2017 – March 2021

Countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

Communities: Various

What is this programme about?

This project seeks to raise public awareness in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia of poverty, migration and exclusion of minority communities. Through various education opportunities, training schemes, graduate internships, stipends and awards, the programme aims to strengthen the capacity of journalists and journalism students to report sensitively on those issues, counter the dominant anti-migrant media campaign and promote positive attitudes towards migrants and refugees across the general public.

What is in the programme?

• 8-week online course on development, minorities and migration for 200 journalists and journalism students
• 1-month internships for journalism students graduates of online training at national media outlets
• 7-day face-to-face training and site visits for 80 journalists and journalism students to urgent frontline EU arrival points and Africa
• Offering stipends to most active online trainees for investigative reporting projects
• National high-profile roundtables on development journalism for senior media professionals
• Annual editorial awards for outstanding development journalism
• International high-profile media gatherings on development journalism for senior media professionals
• Providing media information resources on development, minorities and migration (3 global reports on minorities and migration and 1 best practice report on minority-sensitive development journalism)
• Providing documentary films and online materials (visual materials focussing on issues concerning development, minorities & migration) for use by television channels and online media in the four EU target countries

Who are our partners?

Our partners are:

• Human Rights League – Slovakia
• Gender Project for Bulgaria – Bulgaria
• Cracow University of Economics – Poland

Who is funding this programme?

This programme is funded by:

• The European Union
• The Visegrad Fund

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