WAN-IFRA has joined Stars4Media.eu, an exchange program for young media professionals to boost media innovation and cross-border cooperation in Europe. A media-driven pilot project co-funded by the European Union, Stars4Media will support 100 promising young news media professionals working together around collaborative, innovative project-based initiatives.
Stars4Media.eu will be led by a consortium formed by VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Fondation Euractiv, the European Federation Journalists, and WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers. Participants in the program will be young media professionals with 2-10 years of media experience.
The objective of Stars4Media is to enhance media innovation and cross-border cooperation in the European media industry by implementing a sustainable framework for innovation. A European leadership training program for 100 young media professionals, Stars4Media will develop project-based sustainable Initiatives between European media outlets.
The project calls on the participation of professionals coming from different areas of expertise (journalists, graphic designers, social media managers, technology and product developers, marketing experts).
“We are addressing two of the key challenges that still hinder the processes of press transformation in the digital age: project-based product management and culture. With its unique European-wide twinning program, Stars4media will help participating companies to truly rethink their relationship to innovation and embed experience innovation into our culture and organization.” Vincent Peyrègne, CEO WAN-IFRA
The call for expression of interest and initiatives will be launched in the upcoming days on www.stars4media.eu. After a pre-selection phase, the match-making event (“Europe’s media lab” planned from 3 to 6 March 2020 in Brussels) will help perfect the initiative proposed and, when necessary, pair professionals from like-minded media outlets around innovation initiatives. Selected teams will benefit from ad-hoc training and will then implement joint concrete cooperation. This core on-the-ground exchange will involve both geographic mobility and virtual teamwork.
