Following the close on April 27 of the 2007 call for applications to the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, its selection committee is set to choose up to ten journalists to participate in this year’s programme.

The selection committee consists of six permanent members from the media community in the Balkans, Austria and Germany, as well as one annual member, who is an expert on this year’s Fellowship theme – MOBILITY. For more information on the committee, click here.

The results of the selection shall be announced on May 14 at fellowship.birn.eu.com. Click here to view the criteria for selection.

For more information, contact the Fellowship’s programme manager-editor, Anna McTaggart, on fellowship@birn.eu.com

Journalists who wish to apply for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence should do so no later than this Friday, 27 April.

The fellowship programme, open to journalists aged 35 years or younger from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia, provides a unique opportunity to travel and research in-depth articles for a special publication.
The 10 applicants selected will receive a fellowship of 2000 Euros and a travel allowance of up to 2000 Euros, while the programme’s selection committee, composed of local and European journalists and experts, will award one fellow with an individually-tailored opportunity for further professional development, to the value of 8000 euros.

Fellows’ reports will be published at the end of the year in all local languages, English and German.