Mediacentar Sarajevo and EuroConsult Mott MacDonald are announcing
Call for Applications

REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
-Training for Journalists from SEE-

Training content

In spite of their importance, environmental issues in the SEE region are not sufficiently recognized and discussed publically. Media have one of the key roles with regard to this - monitoring and reporting on environmental problems, creating and adjusting environmental policies to the European standards, as well as raising public awareness on these issues.

Therefore, the aim of this training is to increase journalists’ knowledge and awareness of important environment topics and problems, and to provide them with long term support in their continuous work on these subjects. The training will take place in Mediacenter Sarajevo, from April 12 to April 17, 2010 (6 working days in total). The following areas will be discussed from theoretical and practical aspects:

- EU Acquis Communitaire
- Water  and Water Management in SEE Countries
- Waste  and Waste Management in SEE Countries
- Sustainable Development (with the focus on tourist development in SEE countries and environment protection)
- Climate Change

Application for the training must include synopsis of the participant’s story (in English, no longer than 500 words) that has to be related to one of the areas mentioned above. Working language of the training is English.

Training methodology
The training will combine theoretical workshops providing basic information about the EU policies with regards to the specific topic, institutions, legislatives, case studies and technical background information, and practical mentoring for the participants on their own investigative stories that have to be related to the areas mentioned above.

Who can apply?
Journalists with experience in working on the environmental issues (all media included); young journalists with up to 5 years of working experience (all media included); and journalism students in their final year of undergraduate studies. Applications from the following countries are eligible - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia.

Application requirements

Obligatory application documents are following:

- Filled application form you can find here
- CV with the detailed list of published articles, broadcasted radio or TV reports, essays from the University
- Short presentation of your topic for the investigative story that you will be developing during the training, no longer than 500 words, in English, containing the following information - sources, importance of the story for the local community, main questions that you would like to explore

Results

During the training, participants will develop/finalize their own story, having investigated the  selected topic related to the areas mentioned above. All finalized stories will be published on MC Online and other interested web portals in the region.

Expenses

The organizers of the training will cover full accommodation expenses. As for travel expenses, they will be covered as following: up to 50 EUR for participants from Serbia and Montenegro; up to 300 EUR for participants from Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo; and up to 30 EUR for participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Please send us your application until March 22, 2010 on the following e-mail address trening@media.ba. For any additional information, please contact us via e-mail  ljilja@media.ba  or telephone number +387 33 715 840.

Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration!

Support
Organization and implementation of the training is joint activity of Mediacenter Sarajevo, B&H and EuroConsult Mott MacDonald from the Netherlands, with the financial support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgrade, Serbia.