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EYP Corner EVENT: European Youth Media Days 2012 16-18 October, 2012 European Youth Media Days selected its participants 100 lucky young journalists will report from the European Parliament in Brussels between 16 and 18 of October during this year’s edition of the European Youth Media Days. We received over 400 applications from motivated young journalists across Europe, eager to take part in the 3-days event at the European Parliament. “Divided we stand?” This year's topic is the euro crisis that threatens Europe and the best way to report it.The participants, by sharing information and experience, will try to get answers to the following questions: How to survive the crisis as an entrepreneur journalist? How to address the social effects of crisis? How to explain European policies in times of austerity? What is the impact of crisis on youth? With different backgrounds and experience, aged between 18 and 30, the 100 young media makers will be dived in workshops - video, photo, radio, print or multimedia - in which they will be able to produce different media content related to the topic. They will have the opportunity to participate in political discussions and gain valuable insights into the European Parliament, while interacting with high-level European politicians and other journalists. This year, apart from the EU countries, European Youth Media Days will also have participants from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which makes it the biggest event dedicated to young journalists everorganised in Europe. For more information please follow updates on www.youthpress.org. PRINT: Do you want to be published? Choose our official partner EMAJMagazine! EMAJMagazine has a new fresh design, a new address, a heart full of passion and a head full of ideas! Since the start of 2010, EMAJMagazine has brought to you stories from Middle East, North Africa and the EU under the slogan “Report news not prejudice”. The magazine focuses on issues related to the European Union, Middle East and North Africa with a special regard to the relationship between the regions as well as human rights, intercultural dialogue and immigration. Together and from different points of view, EMAJMagazine has reported on Ship to Gaza, tackled the burqa ban in Europe, investigated the aftershock of the Wikileaks revelations in different countries, covered the different aspects of Ramadan in EU, MENA and beyond and iscurrently closely following the revolution in the Arab world. EMAJ is produced by a network of around 40 young journalists from EU and MENA. The magaizne wants to grow and expand its cooperation across the three regions. If you are a young journalist, leader or opinion maker from our regions, join them by dropping an email atemajmagazine@gmail.com! EMAJMagazine promises you an international platform and an amazing network to help you in your future journalistic endeavours. They call it the EMAJMagic. If you want to write for EMAJMagazine, please send them concrete ideas for stories. Want to learn more about how EMAJ Magazine works? Check out emajmagazine.com. Conferences Call for Berlinale Talent Campus Participants, Berlin, (February 9 – 14, 2013) Deadline: 20th September Berlinale are looking for the most talented and ambitious up-and-coming filmmakers, distributors and film critics, who are (disregarding their age) in the first years of their professional career. Film students who are about to graduate or taking part in post-graduate programmes can apply, but should have realised outstanding achievements already. All master classes, panel discussions, workshops and hands-on programmes are in English. Therefore an advanced knowledge of the English language is a basic condition for participation. For details on requirements and applications please visit berlinale-talentcampus.de. Single market 20 years on 15-20 October 2012, Brussels, Belgium The European Journalism Centre, in cooperation with the European Commission (DG MARKT), will organize a one-day tailor made seminar for 30 EU journalists/bloggers to cover the opening events of the Single Market Week, a pan-European event organized across EU member states between 15-20 October 2012. For more information please visit ejcseminars.eu. ECFIN seminar for EU-27 journalists 19 October 2012, Brussels, Belgium In the light of the aforementioned decisions, the European Journalism Centre (EJC), in cooperation with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), is organising one seminar for 18 journalists from the EU-27 taking place on October 18-19. Only journalists covering economic and financial affairs shall be eligible to apply for any of these two workshops. For more information please visit ejcseminars.eu. Fellowship on cultural journalism accepting applications Deadline: 2 October 2012 Journalists worldwide can apply for a one-month fellowship in Colombia.La Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano and the Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia are offering the Gabriel García Márquez scholarship on cultural reporting. The fellowship will take place January 7-27 of 2013 in Cartagena de Indias and Barranquilla. Participants will receive training on cultural reporting, and will have the chance to report and produce their own stories. Twenty journalists will be selected. Applicants must be fluent in English, have at least three years of experience and have published stories in print or digital media. Applicants should submit an 800-word autobiography in English, Spanish or Portuguese, with emphasis in the applicant’s experience in cultural reporting; a letter from the applicant's employer specifying that the news outlet will publish the pieces produced during the fellowship; and a long-form piece published within the last year. More information is available in Spanish and English.