This conference is organised by the European Commission.
The Renew Europe event “Risking everything to uphold EU values and democracy: protecting journalists in the EU” will take place in the European Parliament on October 17th, 2019 from 10h to 13h30. The event is dedicated to the protection and support of independent media and investigative journalists. This initiative aims to be the start of a close collaboration between the legislators and independent journalists taking the shape of two initial workshops, where journalists and civil society partners can meet and discuss their necessities in areas such as future EU legislation, future financing mechanisms or other connected topics. The workshops “Creating…
EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will be one of the speakers of the first of seven sessions of a lecture series on disinformation, co-organised by DG COMMUNICATION and DG CONNECT (CONNECT University and the Unit of Paolo Cesarini). It aims to inform about the latest digital trends and challenges which are highly linked with EU's relevant policies and serve as a platform for sharing knowledge through thematic discussions, workshops and seminars. The lecture series will be webstreamed and will be publicly accessible. This first session should present the main issues and the state of art of the expert debates on disinformation.…
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) with the support of the three Italian Trade Union Confederations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, is organising the Final Conference of the “REBALANCE” project – Trade unions’ and social partners’ actions to improve reconciliation of work, family and private life for women and men”. The objectives of this Conference are to disseminate and promote the final results of the study on social partners’ practices tackling work-life balance issues in collective bargaining, as well as to launch the transposition guide of the Directive. It will also aim at raising awareness on the better use of collective…
The Education Department of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) will organise with EFJ a second workshop on ‘Trade Union Leadership Training II’ which will be held from 28 to 30 October 2019 in Porto, Portugal. Aims: To equip future leaders with leadership and trade union mobilising skills; To provide networking opportunities for future leaders to exchange among themselves; To find innovative and inclusive ways to mobilise and organise members Participants Participants are future leaders or key person making decisions and leading change in the organisation in the next five years.
Opening day of DJV Congress.
The international conference will bring together national and international journalists and activists to increase international attention and awareness of the plight of journalists and provide a crucial morale boost to the activists in Turkey. The conference will showcase the achievements of the project and the TGS, make the case for strong journalists unions and strengthen the platform and collaboration between journalists groups campaigning for improved rights and conditions. The conference will bring together over sixty journalists, unionist and activists and experts on press freedom and labour rights. They will address the key concerns facing Turkey’s journalists including press freedom, media…
The Group on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law (FRRL) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is a horizontal body within the EESC tasked to provide a forum for European civil society organisations to meet and share their assessment on the state of fundamental rights, democracy and rule of law in the Member States. The Group aims to promote the respect for the European values listed in Article 2 TEU, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the check list on the rule of law by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. Its objective…
The OSCE is organising the conference “Freedom of the Media and Safety of Journalists in the Russian Federation and in the OSCE region: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age”, on 6 November 2019 in Moscow. The conference will expectedly bring together more than 150 Russian journalists, experts from the media community and academia, policy makers, and representatives of government institutions.