Deadline: 24-Jul-20
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has announced a call for applications for the Reporting on European Forum Alpbach, it is an interdisciplinary platform for science, politics, business and culture.
Established in 1945, the annual European Forum Alpbach addresses the relevant socio-political questions of time. Each year, the Forum brings together thinkers from across generations and different ideologies in Europe to network and explore current challenges and potential solutions.
Since its establishment in 1945, the Forum has welcomed speakers such as Theodor W. Adorno, Karl Popper, Indira Gandhi, Friedrich von Hayek, Hans Kelsen, Ban Ki-Moon, Jeffrey Sachs, Saskia Sassen, Yannis Varoufakis, Joseph Stiglitz, Talia Sasson, Anya Schiffrin, and Stephen Sackur.
This year for the first time, the Forum will be a 12-day online conference (23.08.-03.09.2020). They will receive inputs from partner organisations all over the world. Together they will discuss the restart of our societies after the pandemic and the Fundamentals of our future.
The Workshop
Fundamentals are omnipresent topics in today’s world – especially to you as journalists. The focus of this online workshop, taking place from 28.08. – 01.09.2020 in will be on democracy, politics, and law. Before and after your training, you will have access to entire online conference, and the chance to experience a mix of innovators, policy makers and drivers of change with differing perspectives who will help you dig deeper.
You will gain insights into diverse issues that are tackled during the Forum, such as the fundamentals of democracy, European unity, solidarity and dialogue. These fundamentals have guided the activities of the European Forum Alpbach for the past 75 years.
The workshop is an opportunity for you to join and inform the debate on the way forward and to encourage your readers, listeners and viewers to join that debate and make their voices heard. In a world driven by vested interests, this workshop offers you a chance to discover WHO might be doing WHAT to WHOM, WHY and HOW, and WHO are, or should be, the gatekeepers.
The Foundation will cover participation for 15 journalists for the whole duration of the European Forum Alpbach online conference.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to participate, you will need to:
- Be a professional journalist from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Possible countries are: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.
- Have a strong interest as well as professional focus on the topics democracy, politics and law.
- Be active in working in any of those media: print, radio, TV, or online.
- Have a minimum of one year’s experience in the profession.
- Be either working full-time for a media organisation, or be a freelancer whose main work is journalism.
- Commit to writing at least one article that will be published in your media (regional, national language).
For more information, visit https://tmsnrt.rs/3j198SK