Fully Funded 2024 RFI Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship for Francophone African Journalists. – Scholarships and Aid

Applications are now open for the 2024 RFI Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship.

RFI is organizing the eleventh edition of the Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Scholarship, in tribute to the two reporters murdered in northern Mali on November 2, 2013. This Scholarship, which trains ten young radio journalists and ten young reporting technicians each year, is open to candidates from all French-speaking African countries. The training will take place in Cotonou.

Requirements

• It is aimed, this year again, at all young journalists and reporting technicians under the age of 35 who have already worked in the radio field for at least two years, and who 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.

Programme Details

• 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.
• At the end of these days, the jury will meet to designate the winners, both journalists and technicians, of the Scholarship who will benefit from four weeks of fully-funded training in Paris during the first quarter of 2025.

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.

Applications are open  from Monday, August 5 to Sunday, August 25, midnight , Paris time.

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.