The year 2015 is the European year for development. This is the year when you can share global poverty overcoming success stories, to understand how poverty in distant countries is related to Lithuania and that there are still more challenges and how each of us can contribute to the development cooperation efforts.
In order to increase the number of journalists who are interested in development cooperation, the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC) together with NNVBO Platform provides training for journalists. During the training we will investigate the links between poverty in developing countries and Lithuanian actualities. We will become acquainted with the key players in development policy and with the development actualities of this year also we will draw ideas how to present this interesting topic, where to look for information, contacts and ethical principles. Training courses will be held by communication professional - Martin Atkin - a former BBC journalist, programs manager who worked communication manager for Greenpeace and the Fair Trade Movement.
Time, location, language
The training will be held on September 3-4 (Thursday and Friday) at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (D.Poškos street 59, Vilnius). The training will be held in English (with translation into Lithuanian language if its needed).
Interested persons are very welcome to participate and please disseminate this information to colleagues who are interested in this subject.
Registration and Program
It is important that during training you would hear what you are interested in, so please complete a short questionnaire during registration. You can sign in here till 27th of July.
Practical details
The training organizers will be responsible for meals. The travel cost for participants from other cities will be refunded and accommodation in Vilnius will be booked.