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GEJI at the COPs


We were in Copenhagen, see gejiweb.org/cop15
And in 2010 and 2011, we checked how media and politicians changed their ambitions on Climate Change from Cop15 to Cop16 and Cop17 - read more.

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Special GEJI reports:

BEYOND KYOTO - 25 international students covering a scientific conference, March 2009.
PLASTIC BAGS - students around the world exploring plastic bag usage, March-June 2009.
AFTER COP15 - investigating how media and NGOs change ambitions for the UN climate conferences.

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The GEJI sponsors:

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About us + Contacts

About this project:

About this website (gejiweb.org):

Would you like to join us?
Check the offers from the 8 GEJI universities and journalism schools.billedeeuropegeji-logobilledeaustralia

 

 

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The start and the funding

GEJI is the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative.

It is a project started in 2008 by four Australian and four European universities that are leaders in journalism education in their countries.

It involves

  • International collaboration in the teaching and learning of journalism about environmental sustainability.
  • Students working together locally and globally to produce journalism about environmental topics.
  • The building of an international archive of research materials and reports on global environmental journalism in the form of a wiki.

Project sponsors are the EU Commission and the Australian Government.
GEJI is a European Union (EU)/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training project. These projects operate under the rubric of the European Commission’s Industrialised Country Instrument Education Cooperation Programme (ICI ECP) under the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and are jointly funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the European Commission.

Furthermore mobility in Europe is funded by the EU Long Life Learning  Erasmus Programme and the mobility between the Nordic countries is funded by the Nordic Council of Minister’s Nordplus programme.

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Project official supporters are a wide range of media organisations.

Australia

University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales - Contact: Wendy Bacon
Monash University
, Melbourne, Victoria - Contact: Chris Nash
Murdoch University
, Perth, Western Australia – Contact: Carmelo Amalfi
University of Tasmania
, Hobart – Contact: Libby Lester

Europe

Danish School of Media and Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark – Contacts: Asbjørn Slot Jørgensen and Inger Munk
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
, Greece – Contact: Nikoleta Kapnizou
City University
, London, UK – Contact: Anna McKane
Helsinki University
, Finland – Contact: AnneSophie Hokkanen
and Sámi University College, Kautokeino, Norway – Contact: Arne Johansen Ijäs

All the partner universities offer international journalism training programs. Some of the courses are part of the GEJI project – on different topics and different levels.

Contact the international office and/or the contact persons of the GEJI partner universities about exchange possibilities. On the Partner University pages, you will find more about the individual programs offered under the GEJI umbrella.

If you are a student on one of the GEJI partner universities, you may be eligible for financial support from the GEJI exchange program. Please contact your international office, or the contact person listed.

Se partner list above.

Read more background about the GEJI project here. - and about the partner instititutions.

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  • About this website (gejiweb.org)GEJIweb.org is the NEWS and RESOURCES site for the GEJI project.You will find news and background stories about environmental and climate issues, mainly written by journalism students at the GEJI partner universities. We also link to stories on the partner web sites.
    You will also find links to relevant resources on journalism education and the environment. 

  • Lecturers, trainers, professors – mainly staff of the partner institutions.

    But also students and course participants assist in the editing.

    When you visit some of the related sites – like the gejiweb.org/beky or the project sites of the partner universities – students have been assigned as editors and subeditors. These sub-sites are usually related to smaller or separate training projects.

  • Mainly students and participants in our workshops.

    But – actually, anyone can contribute. You may in particular write comments and link to your own blog or website – as long as it is relevant for media and other stakeholders within the sphere of journalism, environment and education. Writing comments require you to register. We do occassionaly moderate posts.

  • Course material is generally kept internally for a start. Partner staff and students can have a logon to the resources on the project intranet run by UTS Sydney. Ask your local contact person – or email Wendy Bacon at wendybacon1@gmail.com

  • We do wish to link a lot.

    You bet we have plans and dreams – some of them might come true.

    We plan on building a still-growing resource base, not only for journalism students but also for media and journalists working in the field of environment.

    We also plan on collecting a database on other projects about environmental journalism, including possible sponsorships, scholarships, contests, awards and funding opportunities.

    But – all that is for later.

  • The logo is for download here.

  • For questions related to the site, contact the webmaster. For other enquiries, contact the partner universities listed above.
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