Reporters Without Borders Germany Berlin Scholarship Program 2022

Reporters Without Borders Germany offers journalists from war zones and crisis areas the opportunity to take a break in Berlin for four months and complete a training program in digital security.

It aims to provide participants with practical knowledge and skills to protect themselves against digital threats such as surveillance or hacker attacks in their journalistic activities. In a second phase, with the support of the trainer team, the participants prepare their own training concept, through which they can pass on their newly acquired knowledge to colleagues in their home countries as trainers. In this way, journalists outside the scholarship program can also benefit from the digital security skills taught in the program.

For 2022, a total of twelve scholarships will be awarded to journalists from war zones and crisis areas for a period of four months each.

Benefits

• They cover the travel costs, take care of all visa-related matters, provide a pleasant apartment in Berlin for the duration of the scholarship, a monthly allowance, free use of public transportation in Berlin and an extensive training program with qualified experts in the field of digital security.
• Furthermore, during their stay in Berlin, scholarship holders will be given insights into the activities of Reporters Without Borders Germany, a globally-active journalist and human rights organization.

Eligibility

• Open to professional journalists, bloggers, media professionals and citizen journalists who
  • are exposed to digital threats due to their work in their home regions.
  • want to learn and work extensively with digital security in order to improve their personal security.
  • are interested in passing on the knowledge acquired during the scholarship program to colleagues in their home regions and, ideally, already have some experience in teaching or other areas of knowledge transfer.
• Applicants must have a very strong command of the English language, as the whole scholarship program will be conducted entirely in English.
• Applicants must have adequate experience working as a journalist, be it as a professional journalist or a citizen journalist.
• A high level of proficiency in regards to digital security is not required; anyone who is used to working with a computer and smart phone can apply.
• In addition, applicants must show that they are willing to return to their home region after the fellowship in Germany.
• Previous teaching experience would be desirable.

How To Apply

To apply, send a completed and signed application form, the completed questionnaire, your CV and a proof of identity (copy of your ID or your passport) as attachments in separate PDF documents (4 PDFs in total) via the Signal messenger service to +491636743853, or if you have a ProtonMail account to rsf.digitalfreedom@protonmail.com. If you know how to use PGP, you can also send it as an encrypted email to digitalfreedom@reporter-ohne-grenzen.de (GnuPG/GPG-Key).

Download the Application Form and Questionnaire Here

For more information, visit Reporters Without Borders

Application Deadline: November 29, 2021

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