Membership applications must be submitted before the end of February. The application should describe briefly the statutes, the curricula and the number of students in journalism.  If the applying member has a national accreditation, the report should also be included.

1. The EJTA Board will examine the application.

2. If the Board evaluates the application positively, the candidate member gets a detailed outline of the procedure from the EJTA Secretariat. This is a summary:

The applicant must submit 200 euro for administration costs and gets from the Secretariat the EJTA questionnaire about the status of their training centre.
An independent EJTA Board member will visit. The applicant covers the expenses of this assessment visit. The assessor will write a report and a recommendation.
The Board will circulate this report and recommendation to the members at the Annual General Meeting in May/June. The Annual General Meeting votes on admission.

(For full details see Article III of the EJTA statutes).

For all applicants:
The training centre accepts the EJTA TARTU Declaration (see website)

Where to send your application:

By email to info@ejta.eu
OR
European Journalism Centre
EJTA Secretariat
Attn. Anna McKane
Sonnevillelunet 10
6221 KT Maastricht
The Netherlands

Criteria for membership:

That the candidate member runs an active curriculum of professional practical training (including regularly creating journalistic products) and the curriculum achieves integration of theory and practice of journalism;
That students are taught a variety of journalistic methods to bring them to a professional level of competence;
That a full cycle of teaching has been completed and the teaching programme has been running for three years;
That the training centre does not depend on a political party or any group involving social, political, ideological religious or racial discrimination;
That if the training centre does depend on a single press group, its student membership is not limited to employees of that group but is open to the general public and that the curriculum does not constitute a programme of in-house training;
That the training centre accepts students without discrimination on social, political, ideological, religious or racial grounds and without conditions or obligations as to future jobs and employers;
That the training centre does not operate as a commercial organisation trading for profit (to be discussed with the EJTA representative visiting your school).

For further information please contact: info@ejta.eu