October Opportunites For Youth Media Makers

Middle East and North Africa Committee call for team members 

Deadline: November 5th

Interested in media, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa? Apply as a voluntary team member of the Middle East and North Africa Committee (menac) of the European Youth Press. The committee works to enhance the voices of young journalists and media-makers from across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to promote intercultural dialogue and the development of a better contextualisation of the respective regions.

For more information, please see the call on youthpress.org.

Media Agenda Talks, London School of Economics, London Autumn 2013  

Each autumn the journalism think tank Polis invites a dozen media practitioners to discuss the latest trends as part of their yearly Media Agenda Talk series of public lectures. This year, speakers include Tom Standage, Digital Editor at the Economist, Amanda Farnsworth, Head of BBC Visual Journalism and many more. The event is free and open for all.

For more information, please see the call on youthpress.org. 

"Young voices against poverty" Video Contest  

Deadline: November 1st The European Commission has just launched a video contest in the run-up to the European Development Days (EDD13). Entitled “Young voices against poverty: What would you change? Have your say!”, the contest will include young voices from around the world in the debate about the future of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
For more information, please see the call on youthpress.org.

Grants for European Exchanges of Media Practices  

Deadline: December 15th MEDIANE supports European Exchanges of Media Practices (EEMPs) involving journalism and media training centers, mainstream, community media, minority and diversity media, journalists’ unions, organisations of media owners etc. These exchanges intend to allow various media actors to strengthen and enlarge their competences in terms of journalism training and practice or media content production with the view of including diversity and non-discrimination in their everyday practice.
For more information, please see the call on youthpress.org.     

Europe and Me: Young Journalists Award  

Deadline: November 1st Fed up of reading the same old Euro crisis articles? The Europe & Me Young Journalist Award is giving young Europeans the chance to win a €500 cash prize, online publication, and an invitation to a journalism workshop in Berlin or Hamburg for writing about Europe in a fresh, personal and transnational way!
For more information, please see the call on youthpress.org.