The grant of DKK 4 million (€537.000) is given by the Nordic Council of Ministers and will be administrated by the Nordic Journalist Centre in Århus, Denmark.
- It’s great. With this amount of money we’ll be able to dig deeper and run really high-quality projects. It’s extremely important that we in the Nordic Region have a regional network and working relationship with our big neighbor to the east. Especially so for Norway and Finland, which share common borders with Russia, says Steen Rasmussen, head of Nordic Journalist Centre.
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The grant will allow Russian journalists to learn more about Nordic democracy and the free press, while Nordic journalists will acquire more in-depth knowledge of Russia, reads the portal of Nordic cooperation.
The grant will help to fund a wide range of projects for student journalists and, in particular, for their more experienced colleagues. Projects will range from actual continuing education to study trips, teaching and working together on journalistic and cultural projects, e.g. photography books.
In previous years, the Barents Press network of journalists in the Barents Region has arranged a wide-range of topical seminars and study trips across the borders in the north with financial and technical support from Nordic Journalist Centre.
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