Youth4Regions is the European Commission programme helping journalism students and young journalists to discover what the EU is doing in their region.

If you are a journalism student or a young journalist and you are interested in what EU regional policy is doing in your region, you could have the opportunity to:

• Receive trainings on journalism and EU regional policy and mentorship from established journalists from your country;
• Work side by side with renowned journalists during the EU Regions’ Week;

• Visit the EU affairs media headquarters and EU institutions;
• Take part as a journalist in European Commission press trips to Member States.

The application period runs from 6 April until 13 July, 17:00 CET.

More information on the application criteria and the application form are available here.

Please note that besides EU Member States, the other countries accepted in the programme are: EU candidate countries (Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey), potential candidates (Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo) and ENI countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine*, Syria  and Tunisia, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).