2. Partners
DW-AKADEMIE, based in Bonn and Berlin, is the international centre for media capacity building of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. Since the initial launch of its international training programme for developing
countries in 1965, it has been involved in partnership projects all over the world. It has cultivated and developed its portfolio of cooperation projects to such an extent that it has become a paragon of the academy’s founding idea: “Media Development Around the World”.
DW-AKADEMIE operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East, offering customized training programmes to specialists in the electronic media sector – from individual journalists, technicians and trainers through to staff and management at local TV and radio stations.
DW-AKADEMIE is dedicated to the promotion of independent journalism and freedom of the press. It works in cooperation with electronic media specialists in developing an transition countries, organising various educational and training programmes in a range of areas: training media professionals, providing long-term consulting and coaching services to TV and radio broadcasters before, during and after internal reorganization or restructuring processes, developing and disseminating innovative production formats tailored to local or international needs, coaching people in the establishment of community radio stations and promoting the active use of new media and technologies.
THE EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE
Since its inception back in 1992, the European Journalism Centre (EJC) has an excellent reputation as a trusted organiser of journalistic briefings, seminars, and similar journalistic events in Maastricht, Brussels or on location. Every year, far more than 1,000 journalists are trained under the supervision of experienced EJC course leaders, mostly on European topics, but also on change management issues in the media industry.
In recent years, the EJC has massively increased its involvement in online activities, with a particular focus on providing tools for journalistic work and in order to enable more and better media coverage and public awareness of European issues.
Most notably in the context at hand, the EJC is successfully running the project showcase website and social networking facility for the European Neighbourhood Journalism Network on behalf of EC DG EuropeAid . Other directly related activities include the website and forum eu4journalists.eu and the blogging and networking portal thinkaboutit.eu.
The EJC has ample in-house expertise for setting up thematic websites (including multimedia) and social networking fora, both with regard to technical development and maintenance as well as with the ongoing editorial management and moderation of such sites.
Prospective Internationale is an active player in the communication sector (TV, web, radio, print) and organizer of events focussing on development issues, youth and culture.
In recent years, Prospective Internationale has produced several projects in co-ooperation with the European Commission and other stakeholders:
- Volunteers Odyssey , a production with the support of the European Commission and the United Nations Volunteers;
- Europe 10 Points, a series on the life of young citizens of the ten new EU member states in co-production with the RTBF and the support of the European Commission's DG Enlargement
- Cma Planete , a series on children's rights in developing countries in co-production with the RTBF and the support of the European Commision's DG Development and DG Education and Culture
