International Summer School for young journalists

On July 11-15 2017 20 young journalists from Russia and the EU  countries such as Sweden, Latvia, Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands went to Dublin to take part in the International Summer School for young journalists. The school was dedicated to the history, current policy in Ireland as well as the EU-Ireland relations.  

In Dublin the journalists visited the premises of the largest Irish media outlets such as the Irish Times, RTE and The Journal.ie. The journalists also met their Irish colleagues, learned how the mass media worked in Ireland and how the print media coped with the competition with the Internet and social media networks nowadays. Such topics as the Irish economy and Brexit; political protests and journalism; the conflict in Northern Ireland and its peaceful settlement; Northern Ireland - after the conflict and before Brexit were brought up at the summer school. Almost all the Irish experts, with whom the participants met, consider Brexit to be a very important topic for Ireland. At a special briefing for the participants of the school the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that Ireland saw its future exclusively within the EU, but it also wanted to maintain close ties with Great Britain.

The International Summer School was organized in the framework of the EU project "Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia" in cooperation with the European Federation of Journalists and the Journalist School of the Dublin Institute of Technology.