EJN Virtual Media Workshops on the 30×30 Target and Marine Protected Areas 2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 2, 2026

Applications for the EJN Virtual Media Workshops on the 30×30 Target and Marine Protected Areas 2027 are actually open. EJN is internet hosting three-day digital media workshops in February-March 2027 for journalists in Ghana, Mexico and the Philippines to strengthen their information of the 30×30 marine conservation goal and initiatives being carried out to achieve it.

In every workshop, journalists can count on to reinforce their information on the following themes, in addition to particular points related to every nation context:

• The 30×30 agenda in relation to marine safety, together with particular nationwide commitments
• How MPAs are designated, together with the regulatory, technological and political components of the course of 
• The present standing, administration, and future plans for MPAs in the nation of focus 
• The scientific advantages MPAs present and the totally different ranges of safety essential to safeguard these providers
• Participatory and equitable approaches to marine conservation, together with the position, rights, and management of Indigenous peoples and native communities in the design, implementation and monitoring of MPAs
• Debates on the effectiveness of protected areas for conservation, together with “green colonialism” and the position of MPAs on the excessive seas
• Technologies similar to marine spatial planning, satellites, distant sensing, eDNA and synthetic intelligence for the efficient administration of MPAs
• National and worldwide coverage negotiations and devices to realize the 30×30 goal
• Best practices in accountability, information and options journalism for marine conservation reporting
• Tips for constructing threat administration plans whereas overlaying MPAs and the 30×30 goal
• Techniques for creating partaking and accessible content material, similar to brief-kind video, to increase protection of marine conservation points to new audiences

The periods might be structured as part-presentation and part-discussion. Journalists will be taught from researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations and native communities working on marine conservation and the 30×30 goal, in addition to take part in discussions with journalism trainers on potential story concepts.

Benefits

• To guarantee these workshops are accessible, EJN will provide a restricted variety of communications stipends to these with an unstable web connection in distant areas.
• Participants who attend all periods will obtain a certificates of completion from EJN and may even obtain particular consideration ought to they select to apply for a narrative grant to provide journalistic content material following the workshop.

Eligibility

• Applicants might be from Ghana, Mexico or the Philippines. 
• For the functions of this coaching OPPORTUNITY, they may solely be accepting functions in English, and for candidates from Mexico, in Spanish. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to think about functions in different languages at the moment. Applicants should have a working understanding of English to take part in the Ghana and Philippines workshops, and of Spanish to take part in the Mexico workshop. 
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio), journalistic content material creators/influencers with an energetic presence on a number of distinguished social media platforms, and different media practitioners with expertise overlaying ocean points.
• They welcome functions from freelance reporters, content material creators, and workers from all sorts of media organizations—neighborhood-based mostly, native, nationwide, and worldwide. They particularly encourage girls, rural, Indigenous 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 Workshops.