Apply for Euromed reportage in Tunisia - 11 to 16 February

Published on January 15, 2014

inside cafébabel

The Brief

'cafeba­bel.​com' is a cit­i­zen media site which aims to em­power Eu­ro­pean cit­i­zens. Young jour­nal­ists - both am­a­teur and pro­fes­sional - have the op­por­tu­nity to gain gen­uine jour­nal­is­tic ex­pe­ri­ence re­port­ing 'on the ground'.

With the Eu­romed pro­ject,  we want to cre­ate a bridge be­tween gen­er­a­tions of young Tunisians, Mo­roc­cans and Eu­ro­peans. Tra­di­tional media often trans­mit noth­ing but stereo­types. But what is the re­al­ity on the ground after the Arab Spring?  How do young­sters of these Ara­bic coun­tries re­ally live? How dif­fer­ent are they from us?

In 2014 Cafébabel is giv­ing a young group of re­porters the op­por­tu­nity to in­ves­ti­gate the na­ture of civil so­ci­ety in Tunisia and Mo­rocco.

What do we ex­pect from you ?

The abil­ity to deal with civil so­ci­ety start­ing from the small sto­ries, at­ten­tion to de­tails, the abil­ity to get in touch with lo­cals, to be orig­i­nal and to break free from clichés.

In other words: the abil­ity to pro­duce an eye open­ing re­portage for a Eu­ro­pean au­di­ence.

All this in no more than 6000 char­ac­ters

We want you to pitch 2 top­ics that match 2 of the 4 main sec­tions of our web­magazine: Cul­ture, Lifestyle, So­ci­ety or Pol­i­tics. Each pitch should be no more than 1000 char­ac­ters, or 2000 char­ac­ters to­gether. The pitches should reach us no later than 21 Jan­u­ary. Please at­tach a CV.

Eu­romed in fig­ures

We will pub­lish 8 fea­ture re­ports and 2 photo re­ports, drawn from 2 cities, Tunisi and Casablanca. We will bring to­gether 5 young Eu­ro­pean jour­nal­ists of dif­fer­ent na­tion­al­i­ties for 5 days. A team of local col­lab­o­ra­tors will wel­come the team and help the jour­nal­ists to de­velop their ar­ti­cles and find their feet in the cities. The pro­ject will be launched in Tunis, 11 to 16 Febraury.

Want to par­tic­i­pate ?

Ap­pli­cants have to be under 35. Only res­i­dents of coun­tries el­i­gi­ble for the pro­gramme will get their travel ex­penses re­im­bursed. It is not a mat­ter of na­tion­al­ity but res­i­dence: par­tic­i­pants can only come from and travel from a coun­try that has cho­sen to par­tic­i­pate in this Eu­ro­pean pro­gramme. The coun­tries par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­gramme are: the 28 mem­ber states of the Eu­ro­pean Union

For Tunisia :

http://​www.​tunisie.​co/​index.​php/​ar­ti­cle/​4/​voy­age/​for­malites-d-en­tree/​visa-pou-175516#.​UrGClb­wePmQ

Na­tion­als from the fol­low­ing coun­tries do not need a visa. They just need to be in pos­ses­sion of a valid pass­port.

Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Bul­garia, Croa­tia, Den­mark, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, Hun­gary, Ice­land, Ire­land, Italy, Lux­em­bourg, Malta, Mo­rocco, Nor­way, Nether­lands, Por­tu­gal, Ro­ma­nia, United King­dom of Great Britain and North­ern Ire­land (for na­tion­als hold­ing or­di­nary pass­ports), Slove­nia, Spain, Swe­den, Switzer­land, Turkey.

Na­tion­als from Poland, the Czech Re­pub­lic, Slo­va­kia, Latvia, Lithua­nia and Cyprus need a visa.

Ac­com­mo­da­tion is or­gan­ised and paid for by Cafébabel.

Travel costs are re­im­bursed up to 440 €

Liv­ing and local trans­port costs are re­im­bursed (re­ceipts re­quired) up to 150 € for the du­ra­tion of the trip.

Pub­lish­ing your ar­ti­cle

Once you get back home, you have one week to send us your ar­ti­cles. Then our ed­i­tors will edit the ar­ti­cles and they will be trans­lated into all six of­fi­cial lan­guages of the mag­a­zine on cafeba­bel.​com, thanks to our won­der­ful, hard­work­ing teams of vol­un­teer trans­la­tors. All texts need to be a max­i­mum of 6,000 char­ac­ters which in­cludes spaces, whilst the photo gal­leries should con­tain be­tween 12 and 20 im­ages.

Only se­ri­ous can­di­dates in­ter­ested in writ­ing and pro­duc­ing an orig­i­nal, fresh and well-re­searched ar­ti­cle for cafeba­bel.​com need apply with your ideas and thoughts.

Send your CV and your two pitches to the fol­low­ing ad­dresses:

a.​dami­ano@​cafeba­bel.​com

m.​amare@​cafeba­bel.​com

We look for­ward to hear­ing from you!