EJTA supports and promotes the dissemination of the publications by the EC project COPE- Covering Cohesion Policy in Europe. Apart from creating a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) teaching coverage of EU issues to journalism students across Europe, the project consortium announces the publication of an E-Book.
The COPE E-Book gathers all contents provided in the COPE MOOC, to make the teaching materials accessible to journalism educators, journalism students and media practitioners beyond the digital version.
A comprehensive set of 14 modules (one semester) will enable journalism educators across the EU to systematically teach journalism students to better understand the functioning of EU institutions and the complex factual dimensions of Cohesion Policy in the EU. Journalism students will also learn how to practically translate this knowledge into sound and sensitive, yet critical and challenging multimedia reporting techniques addressing local audiences. The courses will make a special effort to train journalism students in finding the regional angle in EU coverage, to make coverage relevant for local audiences, and act as watchdog to cover and assess the spending of cohesion funds by local actors in the regions across the EU.
Journalism educators will be substantially supported by experienced scholars (from the field of political science, mainly public policy and European studies) dealing with Cohesion Policy and EU policies in general, both in the process of preparation of the course modules and the implementation of the curriculum. Thus, an interdisciplinary approach is key for this project.
You can download the English language version of the training material with the QR-code or on the COPE website cope-journalism.eu in the section ‘Educational Materials‘:
