Image via Wikipedia I got this via Email from the European Journalism Centre. I took part in Th!nk1 and Th!nk2 (though didn’t finish it). Do check it out. The European Journalism Centre (EJC) invites you to apply for the third round of our acclaimed blogging competition, TH!NK3: Developing World. TH!NK3 will bring together some 100 bloggers, journalists, issue experts and students from the 27 EU member states, as well as neighbourhood countries and beyond, to exchange ideas and debate...
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Image via Wikipedia The draw took place today for the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. Ireland has been drawn to be in the second half of the second semi. That semi will take place on the 27th of May. Here are the results of the Draw. Semi-Final One, May 25th Serbia (first half) Finland (first half) Russia (first half) Greece (second half) Slovakia (first half) Bosnia & Herzegovina (first half) Iceland (second half) Moldova (first half) Malta...
So we are at the half way point of the EU Blogging Contest “Think About It” and I must say I am enjoying it. The first month was hard for me, but I got back into the swing of it last month. This month sees a change of focus. From now on we have to blog purely about the European Parliament to stay in the competition. We can still blog about European issues but they wont count towards the...
Thanks to Eoin Ryan MEP for highlighting this on twitter. Vist www.dyp2008.org/ to see how you could win a trip to Africa. One person from Ireland has to win! Check it out! Best of luck if you enter!
Image via Wikipedia Well my first post is up on the Th!nk about it blog. It is on “How do we make Europe Sexy?“. Please read, comment and vote! Heres an excerpt from it: One of the issues that kept coming up during the Launch event last week in Brussels was how do we make Europe Sexy? By Europe I mean the European Union. This is something that I have spent much time thinking about since getting back to...
Well, I think I am finally recovered after my trip to Brussels and it was amazing. I met amazing people! There was fantastic talks and I will share some of my thoughts on them in later blogposts. My only problem with the event was the fact my baggage didnt arrive till Monday!! Luckily a friend of mine had recently moved to Brussels and actually had a shirt that fitted me! The two days of the event were great (when...
This is one of the most asked questions about my upcoming trip to Brussels for the Thinking about it competition so here goes an idea of what I will getting up to. Monday sees me in a hotel all day at talks from fascinating people. After a welcome, Tony Barber of the FT, Mark Mardell of the BBC and Stefan Happer of Politikportal (German) and Brussels Media (English), will be talking to us about blooging about the EU and...
Yes this, is the Blogging Competition thing that I am in. Im off to Brussels on Sunday for the launch. Will be back in Cork on Tuesday. The organisers have a blog up with advice and stuff for us, but there is also information on the EU and other campaigns on it. Some of the others taking part have linked to their websites, so here that are if you want to check out what I am up against. Not...
Remember my post about the EU Blogging Compeition? Well guess who has been selected as one of the three participants from Ireland to attend the launch event? ME! I cannot believe it! I am soooo excited and over the moon! On sunday the 25th I head out to Brussels for the launch event! So there shall be plenty of blogging from me next year!
Think about it is a european blogging competition. The full details of which is on the website. What does it entail? Each participant will post at least once a month (February 1 – June 9, 2009) on the THINK ABOUT IT Elections 2009 blogsite. In February and March, any European-related topic is welcome and from April-June the theme is the European Elections 2009 (issues, candidates, parties, EP, national views on the elections). Photos, audio and video are always encouraged!...
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