Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship 2024: (Deadline 25 August, 2024)

Applications for the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship 2024 are now open. Created in tribute to two reporters assassinated on November 2, 2013 in Kidal, in northern Mali, this Scholarship rewards each year a young African journalist and a young technician. Ten candidate journalists and ten candidate technicians will be selected on the basis of their application and then invited to attend workshops from October 14 to 29, 2024, provided by RFI’s internal training department, at the SRTB premises in Cotonou.

The scholarship will be awarded on November 2, the date declared by the United Nations as the “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists” in memory of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon. The scholarship will be awarded at a ceremony in Cotonou. The winners will benefit from a one-month training course in Paris.

Benefits

• The winners will benefit from a one-month fully-funded training course in Paris.

Eligibility

• Open to all young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in the radio field for at least two years;
• Reside in one of the following French-speaking countries: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, Togo, Tunisia and Rwanda.

Deadline: 25 August, 2024

Application

To participate, you must download and send to bourserfi2024@rfi.fr:

• The Participation Form with the boxes correctly checked, your CV and your cover letter.
• A report or sound element for journalists, an edit/mix or on-air production for technicians. These sound elements must not exceed 2’30.

For more information, visit Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship.