The European Youth Press is happy to announce its special Brussels training course of “Flag it: training course on digital tools for environmental reporting“, which will take place from the 4th to the 6th of October 2013, at the Mundo-b building, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels. 

Young Friends of the Earth Europe as partners in the training course have two free places available to activists from the network who would like to take part (the course otherwise costs 100/200 euro per person).

This is a hands-on training course held by one of the best data journalist in the world: Gustavo Faleiros: “O Eco” collaborator and Knight International Journalism Fellow.

The “Flag it!” project aims to train young media makers from all over the world on how to report on environmental issues at local level with a global impact by using digital visalization tools in open source. The “Flag it!” training course will be based on the best practice provided by the Brazilian association “O Eco” in mapping deforestation in the Amazon basin through the use of tools such as: Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Fusion Tables, Crowdmap, Ushahidi and Geocommons, among others. The course will have integrated field trips for the participants to apply the tools in reporting on specific on-the-ground environmental issues.

The training course is aimed at journalists, communication professionals and others interested to learn more about the use of data and data visualization in their reporting or in their daily work. It will give participants the opportunity to learn about:

1st Module – Sourcing/Mining and Cleaning Data;

2nd Module – Visualizing and Analysing Data;

3rd Module – Mapping Data;

4th Module – Crowdsourcing and Mobile.

The training course is organised by the European Youth Press in partnership with: Internews, “O Eco”, Young Friends of the Earth Europe, the Philippines Network of Environmental Journalists (PNEJ), the Nigerian Association of Science Journalists (NASJ), YouthPress Romania and the Latvian Forum for European Journalists Students (FEJS). For further information please consult the “Flag it” website

To express your interest in taking one of the free YFoEE places, please contact Sophie from YFoEE as soon as possible.

Accommodation, travel and food costs are not covered by the origanisers of the event. 

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