Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applications for Media Innovator’s Mentorship Programme are now open which aims to strengthen collaboration and build a community of media innovators in Europe.
IPI’s Media Innovator’s Mentorship Programme aims to strengthen collaboration between media outlets and individuals. It creates space for sharing expertise, experience and lessons. IPI will match willing experts and media partners with individuals or newsrooms interested in mentorship.
Details
- For applicants (mentees)
- Take ownership and be proactive! You play a crucial role in defining its objectives and potential outcomes. Suggest the mentoring format and type, and agree upon the mentorship duration and frequency. Aim at leading the process and making the most of it!
- Dig into the problem you want to solve! In order to make the mentoring process effective, you should identify the question or challenge you are seeking assistance with.
- Recognize advantages and limits of mentorship! Remember that mentorship is there to guide you, not to tackle all the challenges you face or provide ready-made solutions. Although mentors provide coaching and guidance, it is eventually up to you how you deploy the insights gained into your work.
- For mentors
- Listen to and determine the needs of the mentee. Once an understanding of the scope of the question or challenge is clear, present personal experience and guide the mentee along a viable path to approach their challenge. Useful cues include reference to similar experiences in your newsroom and what steps you took to solve it.
- Together with mentees, build a trusted relationship in which questions and advice are encouraged to be provided in both directions.
- Help the mentee find their own solutions. Remember you are there to guide the mentee, not to provide ready-made solutions or impose your opinions on them. Encourage the mentee to find out what works best for them.
Eligible Countries
Media houses in the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine.
Eligibility Criteria
- Who: Partnerships can be between newsrooms as a whole or between individuals, taking place digitally.
- Setup: IPI’s innovation team will set up the initial call, then leave the participants to take it from there depending on interest and availability.
- Mutual agreement: All decisions on the format and type of mentorship will be based on mutual agreement.
- Clear outcomes: Before starting the mentoring process, they recommend that mentees and mentors agree upon what the primary focal points are by determining objectives and desired outcomes of the mentorship.
- Time commitment: mentors and mentees will interact as much as each party is comfortable with. It is up to you!
- Productivity: They recommend participants come to meetings with questions and considerations prepared, in order to ensure everyone’s time is spent productively.
- Confidentiality: At the beginning of the process, mentees and mentors should agree on whether they wish to keep the process confidential. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences and key learning with a larger audience.
- Compensation: there will be no compensation for mentors nor fees for participants.
For more information, visit https://ipi.media/innovation/mentorship/