EJN Virtual Media Workshop 2026 to Strengthen Reporting on Environmental Threats and Solutions in the Western Balkans – YOA

Deadline: November 26, 2025

Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Media Workshop 2026 to Strengthen Reporting on Environmental Threats and Solutions in the Western Balkans. EJN is internet hosting a two-day digital media workshop from 28-29 January 2026 for journalists in the Western Balkans in reporting on environmental threats and options.

This workshop will provide journalists an introduction to biodiversity and its position in our world. The classes shall be structured as part-presentation and part-discussion. Participants will study from media trainers, researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations and native communities working on biodiversity points.

Following the workshop, they are going to be awarding funds for tales on this matter, with attendees at the workshop receiving particular consideration. Journalists who take part can anticipate to:

• Gain a greater understanding of the definition and position of biodiversity and nature in the world round us
• Understand options to higher shield biodiversity – from nationwide insurance policies to grassroots initiatives
• Learn about journalistic methods to enhance viewers engagement with biodiversity
• Gain a greater understanding of the place to discover information, sources and instruments for biodiversity tales
• Receive a certificates of completion from EJN for attending each days of the workshop

After the coaching, they anticipate that the journalists shall be higher geared up to inform audiences of the grave dangers to the area’s biodiversity in addition to the progressive responses to safeguard it.

Themes

The workshop will cowl subjects akin to:

• What is biodiversity and how can we measure it? What is an ecosystem and what providers do ecosystems present to communities?
• The hyperlinks between biodiversity, local weather change and human well being
• Biodiversity-related insurance policies at the worldwide and regional ranges, from the Ramsar Convention to EU accession laws and necessities
• What is conservation? Examples of profitable conservation devices, akin to protected areas and nature-primarily based options
• Biodiversity credit or biodiversity offsets
• The use of applied sciences akin to satellite tv for pc imagery and synthetic intelligence to observe threats to biodiversity and monitor biodiversity safety measures

The ultimate agenda of the workshop shall be shared with chosen individuals in December 2025.

Eligibility

• Applicants could be from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.
• For the functions of this coaching OPPORTUNITY, they’ll settle for purposes in English solely. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about purposes in different languages at the moment. Applicants will need to have a working understanding of English to take part in and absolutely profit from the workshop.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio) and different media practitioners with expertise protecting nature and biodiversity points.
• They welcome purposes from freelance reporters and employees from all forms of media organizations – group-primarily based, native, nationwide, and worldwide. They particularly encourage girls, rural, and early-profession journalists to apply.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the use of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the proper to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, submitting AI-generated content material as their very own.

Application

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For extra info, go to EJN Virtual Media Workshop.