Deadline: 30 April 2024
Within the scope of the “Strengthening the Quality of Reporting and Independent Journalism in the Western Balkans and Turkey” Project, the Journalists Association will provide “Investigative Journalism Training” to 10 young journalists.
Objectives
- The training camp aims to provide journalists with the practical training and experience transfer they need to produce quality original news content.
- Experienced journalists, academics and experts will be in charge at the Training Camp. The Boot Camp will be based on the basics of investigative journalism, ethics and principles of practice. There will be theoretical training and workshops on data journalism, artificial intelligence and the use of new technologies in journalism.
- The micro-projects will be granted up to €1.000 per participant; providing assistance to professional sustainability will be the underlying theme of this support mechanism. The implementation period of micro projects will last for a maximum of 3 months and will start on 1st June 2024.
In-kind support for Micro ProjectsÂ
- The services/goods that the applicant wishes to receive support will be made through the supplier and all eligible expenditures must be invoiced to the Association of Journalists VAT exempt. Payments will be made by the Association of Journalists to the relevant supplier at the end of the service.
- All travelling and accommodation will be done through the agency contracted by the Association of Journalists.
- The expenditure items determined for the micro projects to be supported can not be exceeded. The “Eligible Costs List” determined for these expenditure items is as follows.
- Equipment Purchase or Rental
- Visibility Material Design
- Domestic and international accommodation for journalistic activities
- Domestic and international transport for journalistic activities
- Passport, visa and travel insurance
- Subsistence
- Video Production and post-production
- Website design, software and management
Eligibility Criteria
- Training camp applications will open on 1 April 2024 and will continue until 30 April 2024. The applicant who is entitled to participate in the training camp and thus can receive support for micro projects must meet the following conditions:
- Journalists from TĂĽrkiye and Western Balkans
- To be under 35 years old
- Being a Journalism/Communication graduate (priority group) or having been worked as a journalist for at least two years (priority group)
- Being a freelance journalist
- Being a journalist working in any organization.
- Women applicants will be prioritized.
Criteria
- Young journalists under the age of 35 from Turkey and the Western Balkans can apply for the camp. 10 journalists will be selected from the applicants. The language of instruction is in Turkish. For the participants from the Western Balkans, the training will be conducted via zoom and translation via zoom will be available.
- The training camp will be held between 27-31 May 2024 at Bizim Çatı Hotel in Gölbaşı, Ankara. The training will include theoretical lectures, practical workshops and discussion meetings with experienced journalists and experts. Journalists who are eligible to participate in the training are required to attend all sessions of the camp.
- Only participants who have completed the training course will be eligible to implement their micro-projects.
- No direct financial contribution will be provided to the beneficiaries, in-kind support will be provided. Beneficiaries receiving support from the project will not receive direct financial support. Instead, only the means of realisation of the beneficiaries’ projects will be financed within this framework; in other words, the necessary services, equipment and other needs required for the production of the news they have specified within the framework of the micro-projects will be purchased and provided to the participants only by the Association of Journalists.
- Expenses such as transport and accommodation that need to be incurred within the framework of the support budget provided for news work will be planned and realised with the approval of the project team. In exceptional cases and with prior written authorisation, reimbursement may be made, but in this case, the invoice to be paid must be duly issued in the name of the Association of Journalist.
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