Sapienza University of Rome hosted the May 2025 EJTA Teachers’ training, which explored the teaching practices of environmental journalism.
Environmental Journalism is a significant, stimulating and valuable subject of study, which lies at the intersection of politics, economics, science, nature and culture, between the individual and collective dimensions, and also between the local, regional and global levels.
Here are the presentations that were discussed during the three-day conference (pdf’s).
Wednesday May 21 – Pre-conference meetings
- Teaching Data journalism and AI
- Teaching Inclusive journalism
- EUfactcheck
- Research within EJTA schools
Thursday May 22
PANEL 1: BEST PRACTICES IN JOURNALISM TEACHING
- Carole Layac (Institut de Journalisme Bordeaux Aquitaine): “Empreintes, Notre Impact sur la Terre”. Journalism students tackle biodiversity issues through solutions journalism
- Beata Użarowska, Weronika Dopierała-Kalińska(The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan): Bridging the gap: Promoting environmental journalism through student media initiatives
PANEL 2: BEST PRACTICES IN JOURNALISM TEACHING
- Jesica A. Menendez Signorini (Universidad de Vic, Universidad Central de Catalunya): Podcasts as a teaching tool to promote environmental journalism
- Giada Sereni (Sapienza University of Rome): Sentieri Urbani (Urban Walks): designing an educational podcast on sustainability in a broadcast journalism course
PANEL 3: BEST PRACTICES IN JOURNALISM TEACHING
- Harmen Groenhart (Fontys Journalistiek, Tilburg): Ecology, climate, sustainability and circularity for journalism students in The Netherlands
- Antonis Skamnakis, Ioanna Kostarella (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): Integrating Environmental Journalism into Journalism Curricula: The Case of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
PANEL 4: BEST PRACTICES IN JOURNALISM TEACHING
- Oana Marcela Ometa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca): Integrating environmental journalism into the social journalism course
- Soetkin Bulcke (Thomas More, University of Applied Sciences, Mechelen): The ‘Climate Watch track’ at Thomas More
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Friday May 23
PANEL: HOW TO VISUALISE ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM?
- Andreas Veglis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): The role of visualizations in Environmental Journalism
- Daphne Van Paassen, Floor Van der Wal, Danielle Arets (Fontys Journalistiek, Tilburg): Climate Perspective(s): The effect of climate visuals in journalism
PANEL: HOW TO BUILD AWARENESS ON ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM?
- Johanna Mack, Sara Namusoga-Kale, Merle van Berkum, Enoch Sithole, & Susanne Fengler (Technische Universität Dortmund; Makerere University, Uganda): Climate change: Deserted land in journalism education
- Leonardo Bartoletti, Lucrezia Ceccarelli (Università di Firenze): Communicating sustainability and the environment: a suggested decalogue for journalists
PANEL: THE CHALLENGE OF OBJECTIVITY
- Bruno Mazzara (Sapienza University of Rome): Effective ways to highlight the connection between consumption and climate crisis
- Tuomas Pulsa (Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki): What separates environmental journalism from environmental activism?
PANEL: ETHICAL ISSUES AND STRATEGIES AGAINST FAKE NEWS
- Laura Kettunen, Carien Touwen (Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki; University of Applied Sciences Utrecht / EJTA Board member): Factchecking climate change: EUfactcheck Lab Barcelona
- Michele Sorice (Sapienza Università di Roma): Information disorder and platformization
WORKSHOP: DISSEMINATING SCIENCE: USERS INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND JOURNALISTS
- Anamaria Neagu (University of Bucharest) and Simone D’Andria (Zwan)
WORKSHOP: UNCERTAINTIES REGARDING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET: HOW SHOULD JOURNALISTS COMMUNICATE THEM?
- Alexander Mader (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart)
PANEL: LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
- Énekes András, Kálai Sándor, Mészáros Péter (University of Debrecen): Industrialization, public concern and odd media landscape –Debrecen and a discourse on a battery factory
- Dejan Andonov, Kiril Przo (Institute for Communication Studies – ICS, Skopje): Pioneering eco journalism and environmental communication in region in desperate need of it – study case Macedonia and the Western Balkan
- Bogdana Nosova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Ukrainian Media on Strategies for the Restoration of Ecosystems and Natural Landscapes
