Cultural Program Office is currently cooperating with Goethe-Institut, Amsterdam in the project of Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Young Journalists Amsterdam 2009, the project aim is to enable the young participants to create active information networks and sustainable cooperation beyond borders,

The project  topics is related to  the field of “migration issues” to work on during the EMAJ 2009 academy:

-   Refuges (persons in need of international protecftion); tension in between: refuges – immigrants - expats

-   Work-related immigration

-   Women’s rights and gender issuesf

-   Urban dimension

-   The 2nd generation of immigrants (language, education, integration)

-   Historical dimension of migration

-   Integration (institutions, procedures, legacy, policy, positive sides of integration/migration)

-   Language problems

-   Migration as a common experience in the European history and the history of the Mediterranean states

-   Journalists with a migration background

Participants: 

The group of 20 young journalists (in the last years of their university education or in the first years of their professional career) from the whole Euro-Mediterranean region - 10 from the EU member states and 10 from the Mediterranean countries taking part in the Barcelona Process (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Mauritania) - was selected to participate in the EMAJ 2009-academy.

The   List of   Accepted Participants is as follow: 

Abousamra, Hanan                Egypt

Abusrour, Rawan                    Palestinian Authority

Alloui, Soumia                        Algeria

Aoussar, Abdellah                  Morocco

Bacher, Marion                       Austria

Di Maio, Alessandro               Italy

Halfon Ovadia Adi                 Israel

Helmink, Alwin                     The Netherlands

Kayi, Elif                              France

Manhalter Dániel                  Hungary

Melkonian, Elsy                    Syria

Nordberg, Kim Michael          Sweden

Pfisterer, Sophia                  Germany

Rojo, Cristina                      Spain

Shaker, Issa                       Palestinian Authority

Soliman, Hossameldin         Egypt

Spriņģe, Inga                     Latvia

Stanciu, Larisa                   Romania

Thebian, Assaad                Lebanon

Yazan, Aylin                      Turkey

The working language of the whole event will be English. The group of participants will be coached by 3 trainers – professional journalists with some experience in training methods from both – European and Mediterranean states.