2020 edition of the Youth4Regions competition for aspiring young journalists
14/04/2020
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).
The first meeting of the Joint Programming Committee – body responsible for the preparation of the Interreg NEXT (Neighbourhood External) Black Sea Basin Programme 2021-2027 – was held on the 29th of January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The eligible participating countries of the new Programme involves ten states from the Black Sea Basin: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine.
It is a step closer in spreading awareness of environmental challenges and good waste management practices in the Black Sea Basin region. Further, by involving children it was anticipated to improve attitudes towards the environment.
The new generation of projects to be funded under the Joint Operational Programme Black Sea Basin 2014-2020 has been approved by the Joint Monitoring Committee during the meeting held in Odessa, Ukraine, on 17th of September 2019.
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