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When I said aloud that I will be a Journalist, my family just react in the opposite way as I expected. “When will we see you on TV?”, “Let´s look for a famous footballer as Casillas” or “Well, just try to find an easy job where you earn lot of money and almost don´t have to work”. And still, four years later, some of my relatives comment the same. But these are not the rea...

Polish guests at Youth4Media

In the frame of a long-term cooperation initiated by SPLOT, the „European Quality of Public Policies”, Youth4Media is hosting 4 study visit groups from Poland until the end of June 2017. The first group arrived on 5th December 2016, to get a clear overview of German supporting systems for NGOs and best practices running in Münster. The group of 4 (Adam Poholski, Urszula Olszowska, Malgorzata Holubiec und...

The change begins

Now it is official. America has a new president. Seventy years old businessman Donald Trump. At 6pm European and 12pm American Standard Time, Trump swore an oath to lead the country to the best of his abilities as the 45th president of the United States of America. But who is this man, who is rumored to be the most powerful man in the world. Donald J Trump, son of German American real estate developer Frederick Trump, w...

"I would just like to have one human culture"

Münster is full of interesting people with diversified life stories. Our reporter Beata Jaranowska has met an always smiling girl who agreed to share her story with us. Lydia Adakouru is 28 years old and comes from Uganda. She is participating in a social voluntary service in The South-North Component of the Weltwärts Programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). My host...

Germany, a dream country?

Since 2005, Germany has become a comfortable and attractive country where nearly 9,11 Million foreigners have moved. The reasons, mostly to find a good job with nice conditions, enjoy almost free studies and to live with your husband or wife. “I moved to Münster, Germany, last September because my husband is from here and he works in the city as well. In Tokyo, my home town, I have worked in finances. And now, ...

Violence is Violence

Imagine a lovely couple who gets married. They are so happy that they have two kids but, a few months later, as in most of the marriages, they get divorce. There is someone else, that means the other one do not accepts it and the ex couple starts to send disturbing and insulting messages to each other via mobile. Both believe they are right and they can say whatever they want. One of them goes to a judge. Restraining orde...

Movies for dreamers

Did you know that getting a Golden Globe award means winning US$14,2 millions extra at the ticket window? But winning an Oscar is nothing comparable with a Golden Ball Award. And have you ever heard that the International Press is choosing the winners of the Globes? We all know the Oscar and Golden Globe´s nights but it is not so clear what is what or how both are working. For example, these two glamorous and Holl...

Freak Power

Big Bang Theory is and was a boom. Four freaks talking about physics for 20 minutes each episode. Actually, it is a TV series where four real nerds are making fun of the “cool ones”. And you know what, it works. That much that companies are paying around US$ 360.260,00 just for 30 seconds of ad in Big Bang Theory break. That means more than 10 thousand dollars per second. And the reason is not just normal ner...

Tandem Language Learning

How many languages are there in the world? More than you might have thought! In 2009 Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.com) made a list of 6909 distinct languages. So why do we actually learn languages and which methods do we use to improve our langauge skills? People all over the world learn new languages because of various reasons: their beloved one is from a different country, they need it at work, they love to travel or it'...

Merry Christmas!

Youth4Media would like to wish you: Fröhliche Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Wesołych Świąt!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEjAmTSGEc

After bombs

“It is ridiculous. I walk on that street almost every day”. Actually it does not matter where or when, unexpected bomb attacks are everywhere, but the reaction is always the same. Last week was in Istanbul, Turkey, and Yunus Yildiz one of civilians who suffered the consequences. “My friend and me wanted to go out after the football match but, in the last moment, he just said no, so we stayed longer in o...

Gojal - The Rooftop of Pakistan

Gojal valley (Upper Hunza), in Gilgit Baltistan Agency, a valley of beautiful landscape is located on the top of Northern Areas of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Gojal is a sub region of famous region Hunza former princely state, valuable in rich traditions, international spot for peace, mesmerizing landscapes, mountains, simplicity, and 100% literacy rate. The main corridors open to Russia the former USSR and th...

The Company I Work For

I am Victor. I was born and have lived all my life in Pinsk, a city which is situated in Brest Region in Western Belarus. I work as a TV reporter for a local TV channel. Although there are two TV channels in my city (state-owned and private ones) I represent private TV channel “Varjag”. The starting point in the history of the television and radio company "Varjag" was September, 1991. It was then that...

Cyrillic and Latin Scripts in Belarusian

The choice of the alphabet has often had religious roots though it is also associated with ideology, politics and culture. Latin letters are preferred in the majority of Catholic countries and the Cyrillic script is used in the majority of Orthodox ones. Belarus is situated at the crossroads of two major civilizations, the East and the West, Catholic and Orthodox, that is why both the Cyrillic and Latin scripts h...

The Fairy Tale of Polesie

People are used to call the city where I was born and live the “Fairy Tale of Polesie”. It is difficult not to agree with this definition. My native town is Pinsk. If you look at the map of Belarus, you will probably not notice it easily. Pinsk is situated in the south-west of the country on the bank of the river Pina which gives its name to the place. The Pina flows into the Pripiat river that carries its wat...

BOOM!

That was the sound of last weekend in 8 different countries. Bomb attacks, fear and death around. 160 out of 257 deaths in 5 different countries of Africaduring were noted this weekend. However, all attacks have something in common: violence against government because of religion influence. Muslims versus Christians in Egypt as Amenábar represented in Agora´s movie about 4th century. Yemen's government and A...

Wedding - The Holy Practice

Marriage is an important and Holy event in the human life cycle and also is a social event in a village. In Hunza, Northen Part of Pakistan, wedding cermonies are simple yet complicated. In this article I would like to share the rites and rituals specific to the region, Hunza, Gilgit. It is celebrated with great zeal and simplicity. The parents with consent select the suitable boy or girl for the daughter or son ...

Unknown - Unrecognized

My father is an artist, a self-made artist. An artist by birth and spirit, not by education. An artist who was the founder of a popular art movement in my native city in the 80ies of the last century which was really a breath of fresh air in the ocean of official Soviet art... I was a small boy then but remember quite well the exhibitions that took place in my town and a very exceptional atmosphere associated wit...

International Human Rights Day

A milestone document in the history of human rights, translated into over 500 languages, a list of moral principles/norms protected as legal rights in municipal and international law - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - is the essence of humans' existence. December,10 is International Human Rights Day. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and consc...

Art4Night – an audiovisual experience

Songs and drawigns were connected in the emblematic cultural spot of Münster - SpecOps (spec-ops.de/). As a result, people of different interests were enjoying art together. It was a night full of talented artist, remarkable atmosphere and unforgettable experience for those who joined Art4Night – a multi-art event. Organised by Youth4Media – an international network with the aim of "Giving young ...

Can you survive for 50€ per month?

If Ukraine wants to join EU, its government should take into consideration that living there and in other countries is different. Two women from Kyiv shared their everday struggle of how to survive monthly for not more than 50€... www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSHZB2b84k This video was produced during the project 'Citizen Journalism and Digital Media Dialogue for Social Participation' supported by the European U...

Making journalism in Ukraine

28 young people from Ukraine, Germany and Belarus met in Kyiv, Ukraine to share their points of view concerning journalism, ways of deal with different topics and difficulties in their countries. "Meeting journalists and media professionals from different countries as Belarus, Ukraine and Germany helped me realize that all of us have almost the same problems in our countries and we are fighting for the same reasons" admit...

Building Democracy in Ukraine

After the revolution Ukrainian society is changing. Fedir Musurahin is a student of journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and he has a very specific plan concerning his future and he presents his vision of Ukraine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLgrZ5D9wc This video was produced during the project 'Citizen Journalism and Digital Media Dialogue for Social Participation' supported by the European U...

Citizen Journalism in Ukraine

Project of the “Arbeitskreitskreis Ostviertel” finishes with conference in Kiev. Münster/Kiev. Media function as an adjustor between current occasions, events and citizens. One of the main tasks is the production of a public, at its best a public which deals with civil society discourses. But such a public cannot guarantee that citizen campaigns themselves act civil socially. Citizen media offer the poss...

International Tongue Twister Day

Say "She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells" really fast on November 13, because it's International Tongue Twister Day! Tongue twisters are present in all languages. They are those challenging phrases difficult to articulate especially when said really fast. The main idea of tongue twisters is to pu...

When freedom becomes a fight: Yasser Arafat myth

What does a hero mean? Having as much Jew blood as Nazis had, as Ariel Sharon said in 1995? What about terrorists? Being the biggest myth of Palestine modern history looking for freedom? After being in a few countries like Spain, Israel, Turkey and even Palestine, I just have a real Galician answer: "it depends". It depends which side you're supporting. Let's just take a break and consider it. Yasser Arafat would h...

Dear Poland...

Today Poles are celebrating the most important holiday in Polish history. November 11 is the National Independence Day. Our EVS volunteer would like to share the letter she wrote to Poland. Dear Poland, I am writing this letter because today is the most important day in Your history - National Independence Day which all of Us - Poles celebrate every year. This day commemorates the anniversary of You being free a...

Welcome to Turkey. One year living in the country to realize how hard life is ...

“Police force has arrested Alp Altinors, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy co-chair we interviewed less than one year ago”, my college Pablo Fernandez wrote me recently. It was like a message to don't forget all what we did in Turkey last year and to remind us how important it was. I had no idea where I was going when two years ago I applied for being an Erasmus in the last year of my journalism career. ...

All Saints' Day

It's the time of remembrance and reviere.. Today Christians are celebrating All Saints' Day. All Saints' Day is an important day for the Catholic Church and is celebrated annually on November 1. It also accurs in Roman Catholic Church, Angelican Communion, Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church and other protestant churches. Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic churches celebrate it on the first Sunday a...

Invasion or discovery: Day of Hispanidad

”In Latin America reconstructs its past to have a tolerant present and future, while in Spanish State, we keep mixing 12th October, Day of Hispanidad and Pilar´s Day, like a journey to show army parade, to exhibit all our country´s armamentistic power with a superior culture. We are doing it instead of using that day as a reflexion time about what was done well and what was not”, a last year Spanis...

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Timeline

Time to say Goodbye - the final conference in Kyiv Research on media - our visit at Detector Media From an apartment to one of the biggest TV channels News from the conflict zone Donbass - OstroV News Agency Reporting on conflicts: Radio Liberty The project through the eyes of the participants Discussing, filming, interviewing: the groups in action The Opening Meeting in Kyiv Kaliméra MeLDE! Ending conference in Yerevan 4 Plus: Photography from Women’s Perspective A Military Position in a Conflict Zone By Train through the Caucasus Halftime – The Conference in Tbilisi Meeting the Union of Journalists of Armenia City tour in Tbilisi Work in progress … Meeting the Georgian Charter of Journalist Ethics Neighbours with common challenges Opening Conference in Georgia The Final Conference in Volyn Zeman’s brewery Suspilne TV about fake-news and content management Meeting in the Polish Consulate What about decentralization in Ukraine? Lutsk City Tour! Opening of “Media Dialogue for Democracy and Peace” DC4JOBS in Erfurt Project meeting in Malta MeLDE in Münster

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