MediaLab Campus

Promoting democracy and civic engagement

Goals

To enhance and diversify journalism training with the aim of adapting it to the changing landscape through a range of mobility, exchange and partnership initiatives between journalism schools.

24months

8Countries

430Trained professionnals

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Project timeline

April 2019 March 2021

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This project is finished

Presentation

At the first edition of the Journalism Convention held in Tunis, in November 2018, over 500 speakers and delegates from the Arab world, Africa and Europe attended the workshops, debates and conferences on offer.

Since the Tunis event, partnerships on both sides of the Mediterranean have taken shape. A number of journalism schools in Europe and around the Mediterranean have been keen to launch projects involving their students and teaching staff. Supporting such initiatives is vital because future journalists have a key role to play in promoting dialogue and easing tensions in their countries of origin.

The MediaLab Campus project contributes to developing student and teacher exchanges between schools through partnerships that are both rich in meaning and conducive to great experiences. By supporting bilateral and multilateral initiatives, it promotes the development of links between students, encourages educational exchanges and supports the organisation of content production activities on the ground

The project falls within the scope of the “International Strategy for French Language and Plurilingualism".

"The MediaLab Campus scholarship has allowed me to spend two months in Beirut at The Daily Star newspaper. I learned a lot about being a journalist, including many practices that I foresee in the direction of my career. I am extremely grateful for the scholarship for enabling me to do this, I would have struggled to make these steps without it."

Freya Pratty Williams, student at Sciences-Po Paris (France) and MediaLab Campus Fellow

Project beneficiaries

Students at partner journalism schools
Teachers and contributors at partner journalism schools

Project manager

Anne ILCINKAS

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Assessment of opportunities and needs of schools

Organisation of a meeting with journalism schools from France, Belgium, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt to develop and share an assessment and devise potential exchange and mobility schemes.

Selection of partnership or exchange projects submitted by journalism schools

- Calls for projects and selection of proposals.
- Provision of support to selected initiatives.
- Allocation of internship grants to students from journalism schools wishing to undertake an internship abroad.

Experience sharing and capitalisation around the projects carried out

- Creation of a monthly newsletter aimed at schools to highlight their initiatives and activities.
- Attendance of the Tunis Journalism Convention in November 2020 by participating schools.
- Promotion of awareness of European student and teacher mobility programmes (Erasmus)
- Updating of pages of the “24h in a newsroom" website in Arabic and provision to schools