The Rory Peck Trust - Support Centres

The Rory Peck Trust was established in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993. Based in London, the Trust has grown into an international organisation that provides practical and financial support to independent journalists and their families worldwide.

The Trust assists freelancers in four main ways:

- Assistance grants: they are meant to help professional freelance journalists (and/or their family) who are facing a crisis directly related to their work. The amount of assistance varies according to the particular circumstances of the applicant, but may include medical and rehabilitation costs, subsistence costs, legal advice and relocation costs. More info here.

- Training fund: it enables freelance journalists to gain the essential skills and knowledge needed to work in difficult and potentially dangerous situations. Courses teach them to assess risk and spot danger, handle a crisis, support others and give vital first aid. More info here.

- Safety clinics: they are one-to-one consultations, held both online and in person, for freelance journalists, photographers and videographers. Security advisors provide personal guidance and advice on specific safety and risk assessment issues, assignment planning and digital security free of charge to freelancers at all stages of their career. More info here.

- Freelance resources: they are tailored to the safety, security and professional development needs of freelance journalists. These resources are free and accessible to all freelance journalists. More info here.

Media Accessibility Platform - Stakeholders

MAP (Media Accessibility Platform) aims to make media accessible to all, regardless of sensorial and linguistic barriers by creating an atlas of research, policies, training and practices in this field. Its beta version was presented in 2016.

Universität Wien (University of Vienna) - Stakeholders

The Media Governance and Industries Research Lab of the University of Vienna studies the processes of and challenges posed by governance of communication processes and the media in relation to Democracy, Citizenship and Human Rights. Its work is both theory and practice driven and it aims to bridge academic systematic enquiry and theory together with applicability and solution driven research. 

Albanian Centre for Quality Journalism - Stakeholders

Financially supported by US Embassy in Tirana through the US State Department’s Alumni Office Program, the Albanian Center for Quality Journalism aims to improve professional journalism standards in the country, paying particular attention to trainings for young students. Under this initiative, the contents of the website (both in English and Albanian) are produced and edited by the students of the Investigative Journalism Laboratory project, who are responsible for the policy and the editorial line.

Università degli Studi di Perugia (UNIPG) - Stakeholders

Founded in 1308, the Università degli Studi di Perugia is one of the oldest universities in Italy and one of the most accredited, offering a wide variety of courses in all fields of education. Among them, a master degree in Public, Digital and Business Communication .

School of Journalism and Public Relations - Stakeholders

The School of Journalism and Public Relations from Skopje  is the first and only institution in Macedonia that provides education to journalism and public relations specialists, successfully combining theory and practice. At the School there are two graduate courses: journalism and corporate communications and public relations. The division into two courses that, although complementary and alike, has the purpose of dividing and separately developing both professions that are on two opposite ends of information and communication.

MED media education - Associazione Italiana per l’Educazione ai Media e alla Comunicazione - Stakeholders

The Italian Association for Media Education (MED) is a non-profit organization established in 1996 in Rome by a group of university professors, school teachers and media professionals in order to promote research, study and experimentation in the field of media education. One of the main initiatives organized by the Association since 1996 is the Summer School in Corvara (South Tyrol), aiming at training media educators, both at theoretical and practical level.

School of Communication and Media (SKAMBA) - Stakeholders

The School of Communication and Media, n.o. (SKAMBA) is a research establishment founded in Slovakia in 2008. SKAMBA´s mission is to provide high quality in-depth research on issues related to communication and media, as well as courses, seminars and lectures mainly related to the dissemination of research results.
It focuses particularly on the areas of mass media communication and the functions and interactions of the media in a liberal democracy.

It closely cooperates with the Slovak Section of the Association of European Journalists and took place to research projects such as MEDIADEM and ANTICORRP .

Transitions On Line - Stakeholders

Transitions On Line (TOL) is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to strengthen quality and independence of news media in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe by offering media training programs and publishing Transitions Online  magazine.

Mediacentar Sarajevo - Stakeholders

Mediacentar Sarajevo supports the development of independent and professional journalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Over time, activities have been expanded to include:

• training programmes;
• publishing;
• media research;
• PR training and consulting services;
• AV production;
• event management;

 An integral part of Mediacentar is Infobiro , an archive of print media from B-H and the former Yugoslavia and a library containing literature on mass media. Mediacentar also publish a regional journal on culture and literature called Sarajevske Sveske (Sarajevo Notebooks) . Mediacentar was founded by Open Society Fund of B-H in 1995 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2000 it was registered as a separate education and research institution owned by Open Society Fund of B-H.