Media Freedom in Europe Sofia, 16th of May Sofia Hotel Balkan Organized by: ENPA, Reporters without Borders, European Federation of Journalists and Union of Publishers in Bulgaria In partnership with: ECPMF, Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Association of European Journalists, Sofia
The EU Project “Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia” is organising a seminar “Legislation and Self-Regulation of the Media in Russia and the EU - Role of Professional Ethics and Solidarity” in Yekaterinburg, 16-17 May. The EFJ GS Ricardo Gutiérrez will speak on the topic “Role of professional ethical standards in protection of responsible and independent journalism. EU and Russian experiences”, on 16 May. Main goal is to present analysis of Russian and EU media development with special focus on the topics of recent changes of legislation and professional ethics & self-regulation, as well as skills in covering sensitive matters, such…
https://dataharvest.eu The EIJC (European Investigative Journalism Conference) & Dataharvest, organised by Journalismfund.eu, is the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. EIJC18 & Dataharvest will take place on Thursday 24, Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday morning 27 May 2018. Like last year, place to be is the charming city of Mechelen, 20 minutes outside of Brussels and very easily accessible! The conference hashtag will be #EIJC18. Subscribe to our newsletter here and mailinglist here and to be informed about any developments.
On behalf of the two Horizon 2020-funded innovation projects I3 and MediaRoad there will be a working lunch at the European Parliament on "The Future of Media Innovation in the EU Research Agenda post-2020". This high-level event is hosted by Dr. Christian Ehler, co-chair of the Intergroup Cultural and Creative Industries. The aim is to foster a debate on the role and relevance of media and the creative sector in the next European research agenda post-2020, and in particular in the newly announced Horizon Europe. The European media and creative sector has huge innovative potential and greatly contributes to the developments of research and innovation in Europe. However, to maintain this key role in today's globally…
The EFJ GS Ricardo Gutiérrez will participate on behalf of the European Federation of Journalists in the EU Multistakeholder Forum on Disinformation. The Forum will include representatives of online platforms (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mozilla, Wikimedia...), the advertising industry and advertisers, which will form a Working Group in charge of drafting a Code of Practice on tackling disinformation, as well as academics, media and civil society organisations (including EFJ, EBU, NME, ACT, EPC, AER, EMMA, ENPA, Poynter, BEUC...) which will be entrusted with an advisory function and act as a Sounding Board for the Forum. EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will attend the plenary…
EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will speak on disinformation: EU and Member States initiatives.
GENSummit 2018
E-tutors training ETUI
This activity by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will aim at studying a trade union strategy at European and national level towards the limits imposed by restrictive interpretations of competition authorities of the rights of self-employed workers to bargain collectively. EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will participate in the workshop, part of the project "New Trade Union Strategies for New Forms of Employment".
The EFJ GS Ricardo Gutiérrez will meet with a group of 5 media founded by civil society organisations from Serbia: European Western Balkans, Juzne Vesti (News from South), TV Forum Prijepolje, Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia, Independent Journalist’ Association of Serbia. They are partners of Belgrade Open School, CSO from Belgrade, Serbia, within the project “Civil Society as a Force of Change in Serbia's EU Accession – CS4EU”, funded by the Kingdom of Sweden. Group consists of local and national journalists, who follow different aspects of Serbian EU integration/accession process.