Science & Journalism for Climate Action
© Moritz Günter
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© Moritz Günter
Strengthening the ties between journalism and science to increase public awareness on climate change in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia.
Context
Awareness about climate change is not prevalent in mainstream discourse in many Central and Eastern European Countries, thus impeding public support for climate change prevention and mitigation. Media does have the power to increase awareness. Yet climate change coverage is often weak, opinionated, and lacks solid scientific argumentation. Scientist, on the other hand, who have the necessary understanding of climate change’s causes and effects, often lack expertise in climate science communication, not being able to communicate their knowledge in an accessible manner.
Journalist taking notes in a jotter; Photo: © Pexels
Project
The project team aims to strengthen the connections between journalists and scientists in order to increase communication capacities of each group and thus improve the quality of climate change coverage and climate science communication. First, project members identify capacity gaps in both groups. As a next step, members take part in a series of events: in training groups, they improve their knowledge, skills, and expertise regarding effective climate communication. As part of these trainings, participants produce high-quality content such as popular science articles and science talks. National and regional media provide the distributional channels for these products. Furthermore, networking events establish connections between journalists and scientists that last beyond the project’s time frame, thus providing the basis for future high-quality climate change coverage and climate science communication.
Project information
Updated: January 2022
Countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Serbia
Project duration: 08/21 - 03/23
Funding: 70,000 €
Target groups: Civil Society, Experts, Journalists
Implementing organisation: BlueLink Foundation
Partners: 1.5 Celsius, Climate101, Climateka, InfoClima
Contact Person:
Mr Pavel Antonov
Organisation:
BlueLink Foundation
Address:
257, Slivnitsa Blvd
1202 Sofia
Bulgaria
Email:
office∂bluelink.net
EUKI
This project is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI). EUKI is a project financing instrument by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The EUKI call for project ideas is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union (EU) in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Contact
European Climate Initiative (EUKI)
Potsdamer Platz 10
10785 Berlin – Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)30 338424 570
info∂euki.de