STEP beyond
The ECF mobility funding scheme which also supports young cultural journalists on specific projects in broader Europe. Go to STEP beyond to find out more.
Milena Jesenská Fellowship program
The lack of in-depth journalistic coverage of European issues prompted the ECF and Vienna's Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) to establish the Milena Jesenska Fellowship programme.
Named after Milena Jesenská, an outstanding journalist and mediator between the Czech and German cultures in Bohemia and widely known for her famous correspondence with Franz Kafka, the programme is directed at European print, broadcast and electronic media journalists.
The fellowships give journalists the chance to research thoroughly a European topic of their choosing.
The call for applications 2007/08 is aimed at cultural journalists, but this is to be understood in a broad sense, encompassing a wide variety of artistic and intellectual fields.
The programme is supported by Project Syndicate.
Download the Milena Jesenká brochure now. Visit the official site.
Tragic death of former Milena Jesenká Fellow
People sometimes pay with their lives for saying out loud what they think, said the journalist Anna Politkovskaja who was also a fellow of the Milena Jesenská Programme in 2001. These words were uncomfortably prophetic as Politkovskaja, a courageous and outspoken critic of Putin´s government who also wrote extensively on human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Read more