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BBC Schools of Journalism in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

BBC World Service Training has three BBC Schools of Journalism - in Ekaterinburg, Russia; Bucharest, Romania; and Sarajevo, Bosnia. These Schools run a range of courses which include 10-week foundation courses in television and radio journalism, shorter courses in radio and television production journalism skills and short seminars on topics such as commercial management and Online journalism. The Schools are funded by the British Government's Department for International Development and the Soros Foundation.

All the above are equipped with digital editing facilities for both radio and television, studios for both disciplines and networked computer systems with Internet access. A new fourth school - the European Centre for Broadcast Journalism - is due to open in the New Year. It is funded by the Foreign Ministry of the Dutch Government under the auspices of the Stability Pact.

Somalia: The journalism training programme in Somalia works with professionals from across the factionalised country. BBC World Service Training is the only external organisation to be carrying out long-term training initiatives in Mogadishu. The programme consists of radio, TV and Online journalism together with skills training courses in operating computers, cameras and audio equipment

Rwanda: Geoff Adams Spink from BBC News is working for BBC World Service Training in Kigali, as Project Director, managing a three year project to help the state media organisation develop into a public service broadcaster. This project includes top-level management consultancy and staff training. The funding for this project represents a major financial commitment by the British Government's Department for International Development.

Nigeria: A two year journalist training programme is set to start in Nigeria funded by the European Union. The project will operate in all regions of the country and aims to improve the skills of print, radio and TV journalists. It follows on from a very successful series of election workshops that the BBC ran in nine cities across Nigeria. The BBC is collaborating with the Brussel's based International Federation of Journalists on this project.

Angola: In Angola WST has been providing journalism training for radio journalists and has just successfully completed a Web Page Design and Online Journalism course.

Indonesia: World Service Training has done a considerable amount of work in Indonesia providing seminars on local radio journalism and conflict reporting. There have been seminars in over 27 locations and we have most recently been trying to work with journalists from Ambon. This has been hampered by the continuing violence in the Indonesian province. These programmes have been funded by the European Union, the UNDP, the Dutch government, the British government and the Asia Foundation.

Russia: In Russia, working out of the BBC School in Ekaterinburg, training is running peripatetic courses around the country - from Rostov to Vladivostock - in bi-media working, commercial radio management and online journalism. Later in the year we will be providing conflict reporting seminars in the Northern Caucasus.

Thailand: Working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the major Thai broadcasters, BBC World Service Training is providing TV and Radio news training to broadcasters.

Here are some of the highlights from just some of the many projects in Europe:

Hungary: Local Hungarian trainers are scheduled to begin the handover process at the Centre for Independent Journalism in Budapest, where BBC World Service Training has been delivering DfID-funded courses since 1976. Six young Hungarian journalists have been specially trained and will, over a 12-month period, gradually integrate to replace the British-based BBC trainers at the Centre.

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Audience research workshops will be held in Sarajevo in the Autumn, and it is planned that a BBC World Service Training manual, specific to television and radio in Bosnia-Herzegovina, will be published soon.

Croatia: A series of radio production skills is scheduled to be delivered for the Autumn and the Spring in association with the Croatian Journalists' Association and held at their training centre in Opatija. A Media Forum, based on the successful meetings in Hungary, is scheduled for late October.

Montenegro: A pan-Balkans Media Forum is being mooted to take place in Montenegro in the late Autumn or early next year. The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has already pledged substantial funding to enable participants to travel in from all parts of the Balkans.

Belarus: The first-ever BBC World Service Training courses for Belarus are radio production skills workshops which will take place in Minsk.

For more information on the BBC World Service Trust Training Programme contact: charles.fletcher@bbc.co.uk or simon.derry@bbc.co.uk