Global Environmental Journalism Initiative
GEJI, the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative, is a project started in 2008 by four Australian and five European universities that are leaders in journalism education in their countries.
GEJI is a European Union (EU)/Australia Cooperation in Higher Education and Training project. These projects operate under the rubric of the European Commission's Industrialised Country Instrument Education Cooperation Programme (ICI ECP) and are jointly funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the European Commission.
It involves
- International collaboration in the teaching and learning of journalism about environmental sustainability
- Students working together locally and globally to produce journalism about environmental sustainability
- The building of an international archive of research materials and reports on global environmental journalism in the form of a wiki.
Participating Institutions
Australia
- University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales
- Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
- Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
- University of Tasmania, Hobart
Europe
- Danish School of Media & Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- City University, London, United Kingdom
- Helsinki University, Finland with Sámi University College, Kautokeino, Norway
For information and contacts at these institutions refer Participating Universities.
Students studying at the partner institutions should appply to their own institutions for access to these travel funds. Other students may be able to access schemes such as Study Abroad, etc from their own universities to support an international study semester.
The university partners welcome collaboration with media organisations, environmental research organisations and local communities. Enquiries should be made to Inger Munk at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, or Professor Wendy Bacon at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
