How can New Media be used to stimulate the public debate on EU Enlargement?

How can New Media be used to stimulate the public debate on EU Enlargement? presentation by Milena Stosic & Debora Miranda Closing conference EYJA 2010 May 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

Impressions of Istanbul – in sound and image

Click here to watch an 8-minute glimpse of what we’ve been doing in Istanbul – post your comments and thoughts below! Slideshow produced by Debora Miranda and Zsuzsa Szabo

Overheard in Istanbul

“I am very accident man” – our waiter “Hello lady you want shoes? Buy one get one free” – bazaar guy / comedian “Hello sexy my name Percy you want jeans?” – another bazaar guy “I had one and a half hours of sleep. And you?” – Nadya, day 2 “How I can help you [...]

On board!!!

Dear all readers! Now the EYJA 2009 team is on the plane to Istanbul and after some hours we will meet each other in one of the most beautiful cities of Europe. We promise that we will write and tell you everything that will happen in Istanbul at the trip of “European Young Journalist Award [...]

One day before departure

Right before our plane takes off, our e-mail inboxes are fulfilling with organizational information, telephone numbers, addresses, tourist information about Turkey, but also with smileys and exciting comments. Everyone of us will sit into the plane on saturday (if the Icelandic vulcano Eyjafjallajökull allows it), and in the evening we will meet each other in [...]

What we need before taking off…

What do we need? We are leaving to Istambul in a few days; and I am not sure what to do with my luggage… Is it going to be sunny? Windy? Rainy? Who knows… I don’t usually rely on meteorology… And what about our clothes? And our “journalistic” equipment? We can forget an audio-recorder, a [...]

Organising it all: Some pre-departure thoughts

Since December 2009 we’ve been developing this alumni project; next week, we’ll finally reach our destination, Istanbul. As I’m the one living in Brussels, I’ve been the main contact point of the European Commission (our source of funding) and therefore I became a sort of representative of the team. There’ve been a lot of ups [...]

Welcome to the EYJA Alumni blog

An ambitious project has started! Let’s move this new European Young Journalist Award network. The trip to Istanbul is less than one week ahead, so our group will have grown up soon. Enjoy our coverage!