Balkans Voices
#Expressionsbalkaniques
Goals
To enable a new generation of young talents to reclaim the language used in media and to express themselves openly on subjects that inspire them in each country.
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27months
6Countries
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The media organizations within the Western Balkan countries still offer little in the way of content and formats that are truly adapted to the concerns of young people. The region is not immune, as elsewhere, to the spread of fake news and to logics of instrumentalization of opinions on social networks.
The Balkans Voices project identifies several ways to help young people to make their voices heard including: ensuring they are aware of the importance of images and what they can convey, helping them to develop critical thinking skills with regard to the media, encouraging and strengthening digital production, supporting audiovisual creation, etc.
Resolutely focused on the future and implemented in close collaboration with the cooperation and cultural action services of French Embassies in each country, this project thus uses digital media to promote freedom of expression throughout the Western Balkans region, which is being reinvigorated by the input of young people, in particular young women.
Project beneficiaries
Young people (15-35 years old) in 6 Western Balkan countries: around 1600 direct beneficiaries
- Around 1000 young people aged 15-20 years old, particularly those at secondary school (pupils).
- Around 450 young people aged 18-30 particularly those studying journalism and communication.
- Around 60 Media project leaders (bloggers and influencers in each country).
- Around 100 young students in film schools and young talented individuals working in audiovisual creation.
Project manager
Marie Bouilly
Files to download
Balkans Voices (PDF - 174.96 KB)
Actions
Developing critical thinking skills among young people with regard to the media
- Designing pedagogical tools for decrypting information (educational online platform and training regional trainers).
- Regional Training of Trainers on media and information literacy tools.
- Workshops on decryption and raising awareness towards fake news with young people aged from 15 to 19 years-old.
- Masterclasses on how news is produced and fact-checking for students, in particular those studying journalism and communication.
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New content on TALMIL, the Balkan media education platform
December 15, 2021The “Media in the Balkans” section of the site was expanded to include a contextual analysis of the state of press freedom, which presents the...
New training sessions on media and information education launched in the Balkans
March 30, 2022More than 100 young high school pupils in six Western Balkan states (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia)...
Strengthening the skills of the new Media contributors
- A regional conference bringing together influencers, bloggers, digital Media project leaders, and online news contributors.
- Regional Practical Workshops and Training.
- Introductory one-week workshop in Paris and six months of individual coaching.
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Introducing young people from the Balkans to the basics of online journalism
October 21, 202114 young men and women, all bloggers, podcasters or influencers from various online media in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia...
Around 20 young people from the Balkans in an incubation session for their media projects in Paris
December 14, 2021From 8 to 12 November 2021, 21 young online media project leaders from six Balkan countries — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North...
Réa Godot: from bookworm to digital entrepreneur
April 22, 2022At just 24 years old, Réa, an avid bookworm, media lover and businesswoman, has just launched her own company, NEFOS. She wants to revolutionise...
Ivan Durgutov: building a better informed and more open society
April 22, 2022Still just 27 years of age, Ivan Durgutov from Macedonia was born to travel. He has travelled to several continents and visited more countries...
Developing audiovisual and digital productions that enable young people to present their reality
- Workshops in film and audiovisual schools in the region: scriptwriting, web documentary, mobile video, web series, video games, etc.
- Regional seminar on the challenges of multimedia production and new forms of writing.
- Financial support for audiovisual, digital and interactive production on topics that interest young people (ecology, technology, art, culture, etc.)
- Financial support for projects gathering young professionals from the six countries.
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🔵 #CFImedias supports the program "Things that bring us together", which is a series of short videos about the interests & difficulties of young people in the Western Balkans
Project : #ExpressionsBalkaniques 👉https://t.co/THktNZOWR3
💙 Join them on FB : https://t.co/dQc8GP7Bf0https://t.co/0bXRohCvOm
🔵 Dans le cadre du projet #ExpressionsBalkaniques CFI soutient le projet Things That Bring Us Together qui représente une série de vidéos sur les problèmes des jeunes des Balkans occidentaux.
👉 Videos : https://t.co/GI5PfPu7WF#CFImedias#BosnieHerzegovine#Montenegrohttps://t.co/O67AEdPduo
🔵 Globe-trotteur de 27 ans, Ivan Durgutov s'est lancé dans la création d’un podcast dédié à l'importance du bien-être mental. Il fait partie des 13 jeunes des Balkans occidentaux que #CFImedias accompagne
Découvrez son portrait 👉 https://t.co/c6gxrNH34o#ExpressionsBalkaniqueshttps://t.co/5pZivRJCYh
🔵 De nouvelles formation à l’éducation aux médias et à l’information (EMI) lancées dans les Balkans @FranceenSerbie @France_Albanie @france @FranceauKosovo @FranceMacedoine
#BosnieHerzegovine#Montenegro#CFImedias#Expressionsbalkaniques
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🔵 Réa Godot, bénéficiaire du projet #ExpressionsBalkaniques et passionnée des médias lance son projet NEFOS pour révolutionner le monde du livre et de l’information en favorisant l’expression des jeunes albanais•es.
👉 Portrait : https://t.co/eBDjhbxkHq#CFImedias#Albaniehttps://t.co/Ya3aRS1H30
🔵 De nouvelles formation à l’éducation aux médias et à l’information (EMI) lancées dans les Balkans
@FranceenSerbie @France_Albanie @france @FranceauKosovo @FranceMacedoine #BosnieHerzegovine#Montenegro#CFImedias#Expressionsbalkaniques
👉 Plus d’infos https://t.co/DLZSHph9fQhttps://t.co/gY8k0UUILd
