IJP German-Northern European Journalists Bursary 2024 (up to €3,800) APPLY NOW

This informs the public about the IJP German-Northern European Journalists Bursary 2024. Details about the Program are given below.

German-Northern European Journalists Bursary

About IJP German-Northern European Journalists Bursary 2024

The German non-profit organization IJP – International Journalists’ Programmes – hereby announces its twenty-fifth bursary in 2024 for journalists from Germany and the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In 2015 the exchange with the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was was also included.

Up to eleven German and eleven Nordic / Baltic journalists in total will have the opportunity to work for a media outlet in the respective other country in 2024.

Program Details

IJP is a non-profit organisation offering exchange programmes for early and mid-career journalists between Germany and more than 50 countries. These programmes enable participants to experience their host countries from a correspondent’s perspective. So far, similar programmes have been set up for journalists from Germany and the U.S.A., the U.K., the Netherlands, Turkey, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Russia, Southern Africa, the Middle East, Poland and Central-Eastern Europe.

Journalists from all countries, who are granted the German-Northern European Scholarship, gain personal experience and professional insight of the political landscape, the economy, and of the everyday life in the host country. Participants from the Northern countries meet opinion leaders and decision makers in Germany, the largest country in the European Union. The programme is funded by the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office of the German Federal Government), by the foreign ministries of the Nordic countries and by a small circle of private sponsors.

IJP German-Northern European Journalists Bursary 2024 Application

The application is open to any journalist from the Nordic or the Baltic countries aged between 18 and 45, working for any print, radio or TV media (employed or freelancer). The applicant should have some knowledge of the German language, although fluent German is not expected. At least workable knowledge of English is essential.

Applications should include:

• CV, incl. photograph
• letter of recommendation by an editor, supporting the application
• four written samples of work (TV and radio journalists are asked to send a comprehensive list of contributions)
• preferences of host media outlets and of host regions (i.e. Munich) in Germany.

Address of application
IJP e.V.
German-Northern European Programme

theo@ijp.org

The digital application is kindly requested in one PDF document.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 November 2024.

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