EUROPEAN YOUTH PRESS

Newsletter July 2018

Dear young media makers, We hope you all had a great start to July! Last month Orange Magazine covered the Deutsche Welle Global Forum in Bonn. This year’s focus was on Global Inequalities. In addition, the team members could enjoy Deutsche Welle’s 65th anniversary, as it began broadcasting on May 3 1953. We are happy to be cooperating with DW and congratulate them on this important milestone! For this special occasion, our Orange Magazine reporters interviewed Deutsche Welle Director General Peter Limbourg for some exclusively career advise for young journalists. Please find the videos and articles here: http://www.orangemagazine.eu/editions/gmf18/ Our board member Ajala Carvalho (on photo) participated in June in a kick-off meeting of GIZ Prospects for Youth -Twinning Program in Kyrgyzstan. “Prospects for Youth Twinning Program” is designed for non-profit organizations and local administrations from Kyrgyzstan, Europe, Eastern Partnership Countries and Kazakhstan to foster cross-border exchange on the topics of youth empowerment and youth employment. It was a great success and we are happy to continue cooperation with Youth Volunteer Organization Leadership in Kyrgyzstan! The next step in this project will be an internship. The twinning partner organizations will have the opportunity to gain direct experience in each other's localities and help participants to familiarize themselves with the partner’s organizational context. EYP will provide training on media literacy, storytelling and use of social media for internal communication. The EYP participant will also visit local media makers in Kyrgyzstan. During the final meeting, all participants share the outcomes of their cooperation. This meeting includes evaluation sessions and the opportunity to connect to other professional networks and organizations in Berlin. Last June, I myself facilitated the training: “how to sell your ideas: keys to public communication and campaigning” together with Martin Maska in Prague and the Bakala Foundation. As part of the training, participants had to pitch themselves and their ideas in front of the cameras. It was really inspiring to see all the young professionals interested in this topics! Additionally, we visited Vyšši Odborna Skola Publisictiky - a university in Prague that teaches audiovisual media, journalism and PR. Therefore I had the opportunity to meet with former EYP board member and Orange Magazine supervisor Dmitri Romanovski, to share ideas and experiences.  Follow EYP on social media to stay tuned! Mariell Raisma Board Member Opportunities Call for Entries to Youth Essay Competition Deadline: 16 September 2018 Call for application for the Young Photography Award Deadline: 15 July 2018 Call for applications to Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism Deadline: 22 July 2018 Call for participants for Youth multipliers training course Deadline: 11 July 2018 Call for changemakers for international team Deadline: 15 July 2018 Call for writers for Bitch Media Fellowship Deadline: 31 July 2018 News On 9-15 July, EYP will collaborate on the project "Media Moving Forward Camp" in Salzburg, where 44 media makers from 11 countries will gather. Here, EYP gets another opportunity to facilitate workshops and moderate panels.