MARS - Media Against Racism in Sport

Council of Europe and its partners (Community Media Forum in Europe, Fair Play, International Federation of Journalists, Media Animation, UEFA…) have come together to bring you a new initiative: the MARS - Media Against Racism in Sport – joint programme.

You are invited to take part in one of the numerous MARS' activities: the MARS' Media Work Exchanges.

What are the MARS’ Media Work-Exchanges?

MARS will give media professionals the opportunity to widen the scope of their media practice and contact pools by providing financial and logistic support to travel and work with colleagues all over Europe.

Exchanges will last 10 days (5 days as guest / 5 days as host) and will be a unique opportunity to work with a European colleague on a variety of projects having expression of diversity and non-discrimination as an essential angle to media coverage, with a specific focus on sports issues.

Who can participate?

The large community of Media and Communication professionals that includes:

Journalism and/or Media Trainers/Teachers/Lecturers, Journalists, Photographers, Photo journalists and Journalism Students, Managing Editors, Executive Editors, Deputy Managing Editors, Publishers, Editorial Operations Directors, communication & press officers and managers, public relations officers and managers but also professionals and staff members of regulatory bodies (Press councils, audiovisual regulatory bodies), of media professional unions(of journalists, editors and broadcasters…), of human rights, anti-discrimination and anti-racism bodies, of sport clubs, of sports persons’ unions and of sport associations, etc.

This list is large and wide open… You will surely find your place!

How to enrol for the Media Work Exchange ?

There are two ways to participate in the Media Work Exchange programme:

- You can apply directly on behalf of yourself and another participant in European media organisation of your choice if you have already defined a common project.

- Otherwise the Council of Europe will support each motivated applicant to find a possible applicant partner in one of the EU countries.

Want to know more?

Simple, click on our new MARS website or write to us on dg4_marscrossvisit@coe.int

As a media professional or student, several other possibilities are offered by MARS to participate, see www.coe.int/mars

You can also apply for the nearest MARS events:

1st National Encounter -Media Cross-Productions– Vienna (Austria) – 14-17.09.11 
Learn more - Register 

1st European Encounter -Journalism & Media Training & Literacy in Europe - Brussels (Belgium) – 11-14.10.11 
Learn more - Register