Call for Applications: “Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship” 2023

Ten journalist candidates and ten technician candidates will first be selected on file, then invited to follow a training course in Abidjan from Monday October 16 to Sunday October 29, 2023. These workshops will lead to the production of a report for journalists and an “all-sound” element for technicians.

The Scholarship will be awarded on November 2, the date decreed by the United Nations as the “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Committed against Journalists” in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon. The Scholarship will be awarded at a ceremony in Abidjan.

The Exchange will take place between October 16 and October 29, 2023.

Categories

• The Ghislaine DUPONT and Claude VERLON 2023 Scholarship is made up of the following two categories:
  • Category “Young journalist” radio rewarding the best report produced during the Masters Class.
  • “Young sound technician” category rewarding the best sound recording and technical achievement performed during the classes.

Benefits

• The winners will benefit from one-month training in Paris.
• The award winners will be awarded:
  • For the “Young Journalist” category
    • A 4-week training within the editorial staff of RFI in Issy-les-Moulineaux (92) – France including two weeks of training on the profession of journalist provided by the Science Po School of Journalism.
    • Support for all costs related to this training (outbound/return transport/accommodation/food costs) by France Médias Monde.
  • For the “Young Sound Technician” category
    • 4-week training within the technical department of RFI radio in Issy-les-Moulineaux (92) – France, including 5 to 10 days of training provided within INA in Bry sur Marne and/or Issy les Moulineaux.
    • Support for all costs related to this training, round trip transport/accommodation/food costs.

Geography Focus

• French-speaking countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Niger , Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Rwanda.

Criteria

• The Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship is intended for all young French-speaking journalists and technicians in activity, who declare that they accept the terms and who can justify their residence in one of the French speaking countries; of the exercise of their professional activity in French-speaking countries.
• Candidates must be young professionals in journalism or audiovisual technology; the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon 2023 scholarship is not intended for students in journalism school or audiovisual technician school.
• As such, candidates wishing to participate in the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon 2023 scholarship must attest to a minimum experience of at least two years as a journalist or sound technician. As such, France Médias Monde reserves the right, at any time during the 2023 Stock Exchange, to ask candidates to justify this minimum experience by any means.
• Applications from participants who cannot attest to journalistic or sound technician activity and a minimum experience of at least two years will not be taken into account.

For more information, visit RFI.