Media and Development

The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations promotes with the programme Integration and Media German minorities in Middle- and East Europe as well as in the CIS. Currently it oversees the following projects:

Nothing easier than radio! A radio workshop in Silesia.

Once everyday life and back. Report photographs of the Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung for Romania show the life on the Romanian Danube.

Aside the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations is organising German Arab media dialogues that take place alternately in Arab countries as well as in Turkey, Iran and Central Asia or in Germany.

The German Development Service supports local civil organisations and municipal structures by providing specialist advice, if required by financial support. It has an effect on public debate on development issues and participates in the intercultural dialogue. Currently it works in 47 partner countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and is in charge of different projects in the field media and development.

In West and Central Africa for example:

Media Promotion in Burkina Faso.

Listener's clubs and women's groups in Niger.

In Eastern and Southern Africa for example:

Youth Radio 'Heza!' in Rwanda,

Elucidation via radio in South Africa.

In Asia for example:

Bachelor Programme "Media Management" in Cambodia,

Internet in rural areas on the Philippines.

In the Middle East and Central Asia for example:

Construction and expansion of conflict-sensitive and peace-supporting media work in Afghanistan.

In Latin America and the Caribbean for example:

'Oi Kabum!' in Brasilia.

The DW-Academy as an international training institute of the Deutsche Welle supports with its programmes freedom of opinion worldwide. With its projects it is in the regions Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa as well as in Europe and Central Asia locally represented.

In the media development the DW-Academy offers for journalists

in the field radio training courses about reporting current events, features and documentaries, interviews, radio plays, special interest programmes and magazine programmes;

in the field television training courses about reporting current events, documentaries and features, TV magazine and special interest programmes;

in the field multimedia training courses about opportunities and benefits of interactive elements, users’ expectations of an internet site and how to package journalistic content specifically for the internet.

For technicians the DW-Academy offers

in the field radio training courses about digital audio technology, digital archiving, production technology, network technology and Linux for network servers in TV and radio stations;

in the field television training courses about TV production technology, computer graphics in production planning, digital TV systems and production management;

in the field multimedia training courses about designing web sites, packaging multimedia elements and internet broadcasting for television.

Furthermore there are special courses for managers and trainers.

The DW-Academy has a network of partners around the world and focuses on cooperation with its partners in the media development. Its internet sites appears in the languages English, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, Arabic, Russian, Persian, Albanian, Amharic, Bengali, Bosnian B/H/S, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, French, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kiswahili, Macedonian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Urdu.

With its Culture and Development initiative, the Goethe Institute employs specific consulting and training programmes to promote institutions and stakeholders from culture, the media and society, in particular in countries involved in development cooperation. The programmes aim to provide professional qualifications, to advise and support the formation of regional networks and create cultural and social platforms.

The Goethe Institute offers the further training programme Antenne Deutsch/Land for young radio journalists. It consists of a language and information programme with events, discussions and jointly activities.

The InWEnt – Capacity Building International intends to support with its focal point Media Development independent and critical media in developing and transition countries.

The International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) of InWEnt offers young journalists from developing and transitional countries advanced training and dialogue programmes to strengthen freedom of expression and press freedom in the partner countries of the German development cooperation and thus improve the conditions for democratisation and economic and social development.

With the training course Media and ECOWAS the journalists improve their understanding of regional political and economic integration and they are informed about the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS).

The programme In Dialogue with African Media invites print-journalists from reform-oriented countries in sub-Saharan Africa on a research tour through Germany and to Brussel holding conversations with high-ranking people from politics, business and civil society and getting to know different media houses in Germany as well as the European institutions in Brussel.