Shabab up! School project holds its 2nd seminar in Tunis

As part of the Shabab up! project, since July 2013 CFI has been shadowing two journalism colleges - the ISIC (Higher Institute for Information and Communication) in Morocco and the IPSI (Institute for Journalism and Information Sciences) in Tunis - to help them develop multimedia journalism contents in their syllabuses while incorporating the teaching of practical aspects that as closely as possible mirror the actual conditions of the labour market.

The increased use of digital technology is generating profound changes in journalists' practices, as is multimedia-content production in the Maghreb region. And that is not all: online media consumption by young Moroccans and Tunisians is growing by the day. In Morocco, 15 to 25 year olds account for 32% of those who go online on a daily basis, and the figure for Tunisia is 62%. It is therefore crucial that journalism colleges should gain a strong foothold on this market and take up the challenges of this changing sector by offering the training for new recruits that the profession requires.

These 2 days will involve an overview of experience and of the multimedia courses offered by the colleges or French university institutes and Tunisian training centres and will include the CUEJ (University Journalism Teaching Centre), the ESJN (Montpellier Journalism College) and the CAPJC (African Centre for Training of Journalists and Communicators).

Discussions will cover the syllabus offered by the two colleges, based on the qualitative survey conducted last June amongst more than a dozen Tunisian and Moroccan media players on the issue of "What are your current expectations of a school for journalists?".