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The European Journalism Centre is proud to announce that it has received financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance journalistic coverage of issues related to global development and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Therefore, in 2013 the EJC will implement a grants programme supported by the Gates Foundation.

The Centre will…

Are you a journalist? Are you looking for the right expert to contact for your next article on food research? Would you like to enlarge your network all over Europe, but this is something that is turning out to be very difficult? 

Introducing the MAITRE online platform, which is an open database that…

Hey guys,

Just to let you all know, registration for the EU Health Prize for Journalists is open. The prize is awarded to stimulate high-quality journalism that raises awareness of issues related to healthcare and patients' rights. The prize highlights health policy initiatives contained in the "Europe for Patients" campaign.

This year's theme for the…

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The EJC is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Maastricht, the Netherlands, with a program focused on the topic dearest to its work: journalism education. 

Right now Howard Finberg the director of partnerships and alliances at The Poynter Institute in Florida, is giving his keynote speech about the future of journalism education and how this topic will be the key element in determining the future of the journalistic profession at large. 

Shortly before the…

The question might not be new but is surely still very hot. 

Does Web 2.0, a more widespread and improved Internet connection and the ability to air personal opinions on blogs, social networks and websites make us automatically more engaged with the reality we live in?

Prof. Henry Jenkins is an authority in the field of participatory culture and the (unfulfilled) promise of Web 2.0

Is our society more…

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to introduce you to the JFPCISC - Journalist Forum of Pakistan & CIS Countries.I'd like to share with you some of the things that this Forum has to do. We have plan to select One Vice President of  each & every country ( he      she will be a General Secretary of His/ Her Country's  Governing body of this forum.  …

One week ago the International Journalism Festival held in Perugia, Italy came to an end. 

The festival, which was organised for the first time in 2007 by journalist Arianna Ciccone and Chris Potter, is an annual miracle for a country like Italy, whose media landscape is sadly known for being state controlled, biased and mainly focused on national…

Dear all,

I have a story related to International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation (CSIT), based in Vienna.

I'm looking for colleagues working and/or living in Austria, to ask for some info.

Very kind if anybody can help.

Kind regards.

As I watch the play 2 +X Welten at Pumpenhaus in Muenster, I was carried away by the spirit of the cast, they remind me so much of the kids I come across daily on my street back home in Jos Nigeria. It is not easy placing them in a German scenery in my mind yet here they are here expressing themselves in a way that is best experience if you are in the theatre - and in German too.…

The ThinkBrigade website has officially launched! Thinkbrigade is an independent online magazine, which is published by a united, collaborative and multi-media team of 35 international reporters. It aims to showcase “best practices” of multimedia reporting through a team-based method where sharing ideas and skills takes place in order to cover the…

PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar (UoP) has announced fully-funded scholarships for university teachers of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences who want to pursue higher studies within Pakistan.

 A notification of Directorate of Planning and Development of the university stated that the scholarships have been announced as part of Human Resource Development component of the project, strengthening of University of Peshawar.

 One scholarship each has been…

For several decades the government along with several private organizations have been working to solve the acute sanitation problems in Bangladesh. Unfortunately though, their efforts have met with little success. Even today the overwhelming majority of the rural population is not fully aware…

For separation of men and women we need two of each, two parliament two national council…

I hate to call myself as an Afghan as a vandalist as a discriminator and as a cruel, Afghanistan Islamic Council the first and high Islamic Council in Afghanistan call women as a pet to men under the hidden words, and order them that they can’t go anywhere without the ancestors. Afghanistan a country surrendered by bad tradition as always now…

‘’The vocabulary we have does more than communicate our knowledge: it shapes what we can know’’ Evaluate this…

For the past 27 years, Israel has been trying to free Jonathan Pollard, a civilian American Naval intelligence Analyst.  Both US and Israel have kept him under a plea agreement. Years back, Jonathan found out about an undeclared intelligence embargo continuing in US under which Israel was not given information regarding vital information about Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian nuclear weapons/ capabilities. Under ideological sense, Jonathan felt it was his prime duty to deliver these…

The unexpected (for some) and unfortunate (for the world) end of the 'American Dream' is driving the US politics to find a scapegoat for their crisis. 

US Elections' Republicans candidates are struggling for words to fight the inevitable interventions of the Social State in the life of Americans.

But some one like Mitt Romney seems to believe he has found that throwing the blame on Europe will be his 'Golden Fleece' that will protect him from more sensible and reasonable…