Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism
Dear Colleagues,
Many of you knew and worked with Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt. She was a talented, much respected and widely loved Brussels-based journalist specialising in international trade. She died tragically young almost two years ago.
I am asking for your help in informing young female journalists from across the European Union about the Brussels-based paid fellowships the Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism is offering. The closing date for the next applications is 18 June.
The fund provides a financial bursary of up to €5,000 for five months. Its second placement begins in October 2017.
It will be with Politico Europe (Brussels) – a leading media organisation www.politico.eu.
The first beneficiary of the fund, Spanish journalist Maria Bofill, is currently working with MLEX (Brussels), a news service specialising in reporting and analysing global policy and regulation.
The Fund
Lénaïc’sparents, Aulde and Charles Vaudin d’Imécourt, along with close friends of Lénaïc, established thefund in her memory. Its aim is to support young female journalists keen to develop their professional understanding of the European Union.
The fund is administrated under the auspices of the King Baudoin Foundation, Belgium’s largest charity organisation. This ensures full transparency.
Applicants must be female EU nationals under 28 (the age Lénaïc died), aiming to work in EU journalism in Brussels, able to write in English and have a reasonable knowledge of a second EU language.
The Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism would be extremely grateful if you could give this information the widest possible circulation to potential beneficiaries through all your media and communication channels.
For further details and application procedure: www.lenaic.eu
Thank you
Rory Watson
(former British media API Council representative) on behalf of the The Lénaïc Fund for Quality Journalism.
Brussels, 2 June 2017
