taz Panter Foundation : International networking
The current focus is on the regions of Africa, Eastern Europe, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria
When seven young female journalists from Belarus joined our workshop in 2011, it marked the start of the foundation's international activities. Further seminars with participants from eleven post-Soviet states followed, as well as workshops with media professionals from Cuba, Asia and Africa. Since 2016, the foundation has been offering individual journalists who are facing danger in their home countries the opportunity to take a time-out as part of the "Refugium Stipendium" programme.
So far, over 200 journalists from different regions have taken part in the Panter Foundation's international workshops, the majority of whom are still connected with both each other and taz. The approach of bringing together people from diverse, sometimes directly conflicting countries, to encourage dialogue and mutual understanding, has proven to be a successful model.
The current focus is on the regions of Africa, Eastern Europe, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria:
As part of the Africa workshops 2021/22 and 2023/24, the magazines "trans.continental - African-European Reflections" and "trans.continental - Africa's Future and the Competition of Global Powers" were published in German as well as in English. Since autumn 2022, journalists from Eastern Europe have been attending meetings in Berlin and Riga on the invitation of the taz Panter Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office. In addition, authors have written about the impact of the Ukraine conflict on their lives and their home countries, leading to the publication of the diary " Krieg und Frieden" (War and Peace) in German and Russian. In 2023, the "Climate Journalism Handbook" was published in English and Arabic as part of the workshop "Her Turn II", in which participants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region took part.
