http://fellowship.birn.eu.com Fellowship Tue, 13 May 2008 09:27:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year's edition of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence was inaugurated on Thursday in Berlin. Ten fellows from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia, are taking part in events hosted by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in the German capital. The fellows have already attended training sessions ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events-2008/fellowship-programme-kicks-off-in-berlin/ The Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence was awarded on March 20 to ten journalists from around Southeast Europe, following their selection from almost 70 applications received. The chosen journalists are: Aleksandra Stankovic from Serbia, Andrea Gheorghe from Romania, Dalibor Dobric from Croatia, Darko Duridanski from Macedonia, ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events-2008/balkan-fellowship-selection-results/ Entry to the competition for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence closed on February 29, 2008. We have received total of 64 eligible applications. Following the close of the appeal for applications, the selection committee intends to choose up to ten journalists to participate in this year's programme. The selection committee ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events-2008/competition-for-the-balkan-fellowship-closed-selection-committee-to-judge/ A presentation of the publication “Moving On: Overcoming Barriers to a European Future” was held in Zagreb on Monday, January 28.  The occasion was to mark the completion of the Balkan fellowship for journalistic excellence for 2007, an initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation in cooperation with ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events-2008/%e2%80%9cmoving-on%e2%80%9d-presented-in-zagreb/ The Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation announced on 16 January 2008 the launch of the second year of its fellowship programme for journalists in the Balkans. To be run in cooperation with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, the initiative will each year give ten reporters the chance to ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events-2008/launch-of-the-balkan-fellowship-for-journalistic-excellence/ It's a topic that preoccupies officials, politicians and citizens across Europe - and arguably one of the biggest challenges facing this continent and the international community. In 2008, applicants for the Fellowship programme are invited to explore the subject of energy. But not only headline issues such as the supply ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/uncategorized/balkan-fellowship-for-journalistic-excellence-2008-energy/ The Balkan news media are increasingly required to report on complex reform issues with regional and Europe-wide dimensions. Journalists, however, are under-prepared to tackle these, lacking resources for appropriate training and foreign travel. The lack of information and analysis on transitional challenges and opportunities feeds the introspection common in all ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/uncategorized/balkan-fellowship-for-journalistic-excellence/ BIRN Romania on December 13 launched the book "Moving on: Overcoming Barriers to a European Future" at the Center for Independent Journalism in Bucharest. Representatives of local media, various NGOs, as well as friends of the organization attended the presentation. BIRN Romania Director Marian Chiriac spoke about the Fellowship and announced next ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events/birn-book-launch-in-romania/ Skopje _ BIRN Macedonia held a launch for "Moving On: Overcoming Balkan Barriers on the Way to a European Future" in the Journalists' Club in Skopje on December 17. Journalists and editors from the country's most influential media as well as friends of the organisation attended the reception, organised to promote ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/news-and-events/%e2%80%9cmoving-on%e2%80%9d-launched-in-macedonia/ As I sift through numerous articles in the Internet, regarding Al Gore’s Peace Nobel, I find out more about issues from global warming itself, to global perceptions of the significance of a global award. One of those articles I read today and was written by a Scandinavian environmental expert. He ... http://fellowship.birn.eu.com/blog/concluding-words-of-sincerity-reflection-on-the-fellowship/