European Youth Press

Besides our ambition to advance closer collaboration between national and regional youth media organisations the EYP is also keen to associate our organisation with other European institutions. Co-operation between EYP and European schools, media associations, and other organisations, which support young peoples' media knowledge benefits all associations involved. Our main partners are the following:

Cafebabel.com
Cafe Babel is the first multilingual European current affairs magazine, designed for readers across borders. Aiming to go beyond national politics and media,  cafebabel.com offers its readers, every week, critical analyses of European current affairs on the internet in seven different languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. Cafebabel.com represents a new genre of European media. Available entirely online, it is the made possible by the efforts of a network of more than 450 voluntary contributors in over 20 European cities, from Madrid to Warsaw, including Brussels, Berlin and Paris.

European Federation of Jounalists (EFJ)
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) was created within the framework of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The EFJ represents the interests of journalists' unions and their members. Furthermore, the EFJ fight for social and professional rights of journalists working in all sectors of mass media. www.ifj-europe.org

European Youth Forum (YFJ)
The European Youth Forum is an international organisation established by national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations. The purpose of the YFJ is to represent the interests of young people from all over Europe. It functions as the youth platform in Europe, representing youth organisations in international institutions - mainly the European Union, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. The YFJ serves to channel the flow of information and opinions between young people and decision-makers. The European Youth Forum has 93 members and is made up of national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations, which are federations in themselves. The European Youth Forum brings together tens of millions of young people from all European countries. www.youthforum.org

European Youth Portal
The European Youth Portal is an initiative of the European Commission. Its aim is to give quick and easy access to youth relevant information on Europe to as many young people as possible. The ultimate objective of the portal is to enhance young people's participation in public life and to contribute to their active citizenship. http://europa.eu/youth/

Europocket TV, www.europocket.tv
Europocket TV is the first online multimedia platform with a programme exclusively about Europe which can be viewed in either English, French or Spanish. Europocket also has correspondents from all over Europe.

Forum of European Journalism Students (FEJS)
The students of different european journalism academies are connected in the Forum of European Journalism Students. That network organises, each year, a large gathering of european journalism students and also arranges study-visits between the universities. For students looking to travel abroad the FEJS has also established a database of all relevant universities and their offers. www.fejs.org

Indigo Magazine, www.indigomagazine.eu
Indigo is the first European lifestyle magazine to be published in nine languages. More than 150 young journalists, from all over Europe, produce the magazine on a voluntary basis. For many young people today, Europe is no longer just a spot on the world map, stretching from Lisboa to Saint Petersburg and beyond. Nowadays, the youth experience Europe everyday, wherever they go, whatever they do. Although their perspectives may be different, they are united through a common European lifestyle. Indigo is produced by young europeans for young europeans.

M100 Sanssouci Colloquium
The Colloquium gathers 100 editors of the most important print media of EU member states are given the opportunity to engage in direct discussions with prominent players in European politics, culture, science, business and commerce in Potsdam (Germany). The conference in 2005 focussed upon the central question of "Quo vadis Europa?" and 2006 was the topic "The Media in Times of International Crisis". Each year there was a congress of young european journalists preparing and attending the colloquium. www.m100potsdam.org

PLOTKI, www.plotki.net
PLOTKI is a project from around the old Warsaw Bloc. PLOTKI spreads rumours. PLOTKI investigates our cultural sphere. And PLOTKI brings together writers, photographers and graphic artists from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. The magazine was founded in 2000 by a group of students from Berlin, Warszawa and Praha. In the meantime PLOTKISTY from all over Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe have joined them. Their goal is to increase and intensify the contact between East Europe and Western Europe, between neighboring countries and their peoples.

UNICEF Magic - Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children
In November 1999, young people involved in media projects, media professionals and child rights experts gathered in Oslo to discuss the role the media can play in the development of children's rights throughout the world. From their deliberations emerged the Oslo Challenge--http://www.unicef.org/magic/briefing/oslo.html. This Network was set up for professionals and organizations working in the field of children, as well as for the media, as a way to share information and ideas about child rights. This network - now known as the MAGIC Network - communicates through an email group. You can join this this group on the website: http://www.unicef.org/magic/