The Circle Hubs

🎙It’s pitch-time! It's been a while, but we're once again open for pitches for two exciting projects: 🇪🇺 Borderlines is a podcast series based on personal narratives of border areas and in-between spaces in Europe. In a continent increasingly shaped by hardening nationalisms, these stories explore the places where different European identities meet, merge and mix. 🔼 ENTR is our multi-channel video project. We're looking for thought-provoking stories relevant to a young European audience from the following countries: Finland🇫🇮, Sweden🇸🇪, Denmark🇩🇰, and Iceland🇮🇸. 🔝 Ready to pitch? Find more information and the pitch forms here: https://lnkd.in/d4fgnPY9

The Circle Hubs, alongside European Lab, reveals the programme of its final event bringing together media professionals, journalists, creatives, and policymakers from all over Europe at La Gaîté Lyrique on March 14th. By addressing topics from the challenges of crossborder reporting to the necessity of creating communities within the media landscape, the ethics of responsible journalism, and the role of technology in shaping democracy, the event aims to foster cross-cultural understanding and promote high-quality, inclusive journalism. On the programme: workshops, talks, networking sessions, podcast listenings, artistic formats and dj set. Co-curated with Are We Europe, n-ost - Network for border crossing journalism , Hostwriter & Europod.  📅 Thu. 03.14.24 📍La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris I FR)  🎟️ Free but registering is recommended · tickets are now available   🔗 + info in the comments

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 European Lab 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲's 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗹 🌐 After kickstarting 8 media hubs in all corners of Europe — Tbilisi, Porto, Vilnius, Lyon, Gothenburg, Cluj-Napoca, Naples and Belgrade — The Circle is planning an event to put the spotlight on new — 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴-𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 — ways of doing journalism, building on the design thinking and business experimentation methodologies. At La Gaîté Lyrique on 14th March, The Circle Hubs and European Lab will bring together European media professionals, journalists and creatives to address the challenges of cross-border collaboration in media. On the programme: – talks – workshops – networking sessions – DJ-sets ⬇️ Link to pre-register in the comments to join our exploration of knowledge-sharing and collaboration between media professionals across Europe’s local and cross-border independent media landscape. 👀 Stay tuned for the detailed programme in 2024! 📆 03/14/24 📍 La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris I FR  🔗 Link to pre-register in the comments

🚀🌟 The Circle Hubs travelled to Belgrade at the end of November to establish a new media hub in Serbia’s capital. Our team of 7 participants, with diverse local and international backgrounds, is enthusiastically tackling one of Serbia’s most pressing challenges: bridging the gaps within its multifaceted media landscape and the Serbian public. 🇷🇸 During the design sprint we combined expertise and unique perspectives to develop a project aimed not just at addressing this structural issue, but also at enhancing connectivity and collaboration across different sectors of the Serbian media. The sprint was an energetic mix of brainstorming and collaboration, with ideas taking shape and partnerships forming right before our eyes!Keep an eye out for updates as the newly formed Belgrade hub team continue to test out and shape impactful solutions throughout the next three months of mentorship. 🌐🤝 We’re excited to add this new hub to The Circle's vision for a more interconnected, cross-border and innovative media future for Serbia and Europe as a whole. #TheCircleBelgrade #MediaInnovation #ConnectingSerbianMedia   

We are excited to announce that On the Gothenburg Media Hub is running its first event: "How to survive as a media freelancer?" upcoming Thursday, November 24! 🤩 Read the post below for more information ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Big news from The Circle: Lyon! The Estafette collective —the project which came out of the design sprint The Circle Hubs held in Lyon last April— ran its first MIL workshop in Lyon at Hôtel71 with about 25 participants. 🔎 What is MIL? It stands for “Media and Information Literacy”. Needless to say that given the current state of the news, which is threatened by disinformation and misinformation online, there’s still a lot of work to be done. The Estafette collective co-hosted a 2-day introductory workshop on podcasts and radio-writing on the theme of stereotypes in the city or in the countryside alongside educators, mediators and librarians from Greece, Italy, Portugal as well as France. 🎯 Their aim is to give as many people as possible the tools needed to tell their stories and give a voice to communities which are rarely represented or heard in the traditional media. 👏 Congratulations to them and stay tuned to hear about their next achievements!

📣 UPDATE ABOUT THE CIRCLE: BELGRADE 📣 Applications to participate to our 2 week design sprint are extended until the end of the week! 🇷🇸 If you are a journalist, media-maker or creative, don't miss out on this unique opportunity to contribute to making your local media landscape more vibrant and better connected with the rest of Europe 🇪🇺 From 20th November to 1st December, The Circle Hubs is heading to the Serbian capital to run a 10-day media design sprint, bringing together local journalists and creatives to collaboratively draw up a media project tailored to the cities' needs. At the end of the design sprint, participants will benefit from a kick-off grant of €10.000 as a team to develop and test their projects on the ground. The team will also receive mentoring from Arty Farty, Are We Europe, Hostwriter & n-ost - Network for border crossing journalism, and have access to a series of online training and workshops from media professionals. Link to apply in the comments ⬇️ #TheCircle #TheCircleHubs #Belgrade #CrossBorderJournalism #Opportunity #MediaTraining #Serbia 

The Circle has made it to the Southern Italian capital–Naples–where we have gathered 9 media-makers for a 2-week design sprint. Keep your eyes peeled for more news from The Circle: Naples in the coming days 🇮🇹 After Naples, The Circle will be heading to Belgrade from 20 November to 1 December for its last sprint of the year. During 8 days, we will bring together a group of journalists and creatives to collaboratively draw up a media project tailored to the cities' needs 🇷🇸 If you would like to map, research, and experiment with like-minded media professionals working on a brand-new project, apply to be a part of The Circle: Belgrade before 22 October (link in the comments) ⬇️

Ciao a tutti! [English version below] Vi condivido qui un evento che la fondazione per cui lavoro, Are We Europe, terrà al Riot Studio giovedì 19 ottobre. Non esitate a condividerlo con amici e colleghi che potrebbero essere interessati. The Circle sbarca a Napoli con una serata tutta dedicata al futuro dei media e del giornalismo in Italia. Che futuro per il giornalismo? Perché i giovani in Italia faticano a sfondare nel settore dei media, e quali sono i progetti da e per i giovani che rompono con gli stereotipi? Vieni a sentire cosa ne pensano scrittori, giornalisti ed esperti del settore giovedì 19 ottobre. Non mancare al nostro evento dalle 18 nella suggestiva location del Riot Studio. Aperitivo, dibattiti e dj by @vinylstudio fino alle 22! Registrati qui: https://lnkd.in/gxDezMtE ENG Good evening network! Are We Europe is hosting an event at Riot Studio on Thursday, October 19. Please feel free to share it with friends and colleagues who might be interested. The Circle lands in Naples with an evening all about the future of media and journalism in Italy. What does the future of journalism look like? Why are young people in Italy struggling to break through in the media industry, and what projects by and for young people are breaking these stereotypes? Come listen to what writers, journalists and experts in the field think on Thursday, Oct. 19. Don't miss our event from 6 p.m. in the gorgeous location of Riot Studio. Cocktails, debates and DJ by @vinylstudio until 10 pm! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gxDezMtE 

THE CIRCLE IS HEADING TO BELGRADE Calling all journalists, media-makers and creatives in Belgrade!   The Circle is thrilled to announce that it will be holding its last design sprint of the year in the Serbian capital. From 20 November to 1 December, The Circle Hubs is running an 8-day media design sprint in the Serbian capital, bringing together journalists and creatives to collaboratively draw up a media project tailored to the cities' needs. After the design sprint, participants will benefit from a kick-off grant of €10.000 as a team to develop and test their projects on the ground. The team will also receive mentoring from Arty Farty, Are We Europe, Hostwriter & n-ost - Network for border crossing journalism, and have access to a series of online workshops from media professionals. If you would like to collaboratively map, research, and experiment with like-minded media professionals working on a brand-new project, apply to be a part of The Circle: Belgrade before 22 October (link in the comments). Please share with your networks, and don't miss this unique opportunity to contribute to making your local media landscape more vibrant and better connected with the rest of Europe! #TheCircle #TheCircleHubs #TheCircleBelgrade #Serbia #Belgrade #designsprint #Media #CrossBorderJournalism #Opportunity #MediaTraining