• Building trust with an audience/citizens

If you are working in the media, creating content, or simply do not want to watch how the trust in media is decreasing, this workshop is waiting for you. It will provide you with an opportunity to design concrete steps and guidelines of how to bring media and their audiences closer together and thereby support innovations and creation of high-quality content. You will explore how the media are interacting now, engaged journalism tools and methods, what challenges they face, and what content the audiences follow the most and what they are missing.

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• Event planning & capacity building activities

By joining this working group, you will contribute to building the events that are at the very core of this project. Experiences in event planning and organising, but also campaign building and facilitation of workshops and other events make you an ideal team member. You will be an integral part of development and decision-making related to working methods and programs of local and international events. You will have the opportunity to contribute to a clear vision and quality standards connecting all those events, which will ensure the success.

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• Internal & external communication

It is a working group directed to the communication specialists, immersive story tellers, advertises and other creatives, who have a drive to find best channels to reach project target audiences (media, audience, experts) and right wording, visuals which attracts the attention and drives them to change the project is aiming to achieve.

Working group will create a communication strategy for internal (project implementation team) and external parts of the project. The working group needs to set communication standards that each of the project events has to meet, as well as to shape a publicity action plan for each local event organiser, including a list of participants’ profiles and common visuals that will unite all project events.

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• Putting engaged journalism into the practice

You will become an integral part of the working group that will contribute to the creation of the sitemap, user experience and functionality for the international platforms that connect the sites of all partners. If you are skilled in design thinking, are a good planner, and have considerable organisational skills, this group is suited just for you. Together with the platform of the Media4Change, and your acquired experience, you will test the marketplace of ideas and make it alive.

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• Study “Engaged journalism: best practices, features”

If you are passionate about engaged journalism and have gathered lots of inspiring examples from all around the World or at least know where to search for them – this workshop is for you. You will have a unique opportunity to transfer your knowledge to the practices and inspire others who are on the search for the answers where and how to start practising engaged journalism.  The outcome of this workshop – collection of the good practices highlighting their features that later on will be employed for shaping multipliers training in Slovakia.

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If you are interested in becoming a changemaker by joining one of the teams – complete a specific application by the 5th of  September 2022.

If you have any questions or inquiries, please do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing [email protected]

This invitation  is a part of the project “Media for Citizens Story Lab” funded by the “Europe for Citizens” programme.