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Postgraduate Program on Journalistic Investigative Collaborations

Credits
50 ECTS
Duration
225 hours
Vacancies
20
Regime/Location
Blended learning
(FLUC)
Language(s) of instruction
English
Funding
Recovery and Resilience Plan

Next edition

Registration period

13/03/2024 to 15/09/2024

Course duration

27/09/2024 to 23/04/2025

Presentation

# New Postgraduate Program on Journalistic Investigative Collaborations

The University of Coimbra is offering a postgraduate program on Journalistic Investigative Collaborations.

Name: Postgraduate Program on Journalistic Investigative Collaborations - I2C (standing for Investigative Collaborations Clinic) 

Location: FLUC

Start Date: September 2024 (Fridays)

For the first Semester classes will take place face to face on Fridays, between 9.30 to 17.30 (starting on the 27 of September ending on the 16 of December);

For the second Semester tutorship sessions will happen in a hybrid form or online, depending on the agreement with students, also on Fridays (starting 5th of February ending 23 of May). 

The more the media industry is engaged in collaborative investigative work, the more visible is the lack of a new generation of journalists specialized in this field.

Therefore UC decided to offer a year-long class on investigative collaborations in journalism. In a Lab-like environment, the course is following a hands-on approach, including a series of workshops, guest trainers and a practical project. The program is co-designed together with UC Clara Santos and led by Stefan Candea who has pioneered work in this emerging field, at the intersection of newsrooms and networks that publish collaborative investigations.

If you are interested in receiving more details and an alert about the registration period for this class, please send an email to IC3@uc.pt. 

Please note: 

1. Foreign students with Portuguese nif and address, must apply at the PT version!

2. Foreign students without Portuguese nif or address must contact the coordination to obtain more details! 

 

Objectives

- The objectives of this curricular unit are to provide trainees with a first approach to collaborative investigative reporting through hands-on practices and general grasp of all phases of the process; 

- This course will be organised like an informal laboratory for journalism education, focusing on the interdisciplinary education of knowledge production professionals involved in future independent, high-quality cross-border and collaborative investigative journalism projects.

Skills to develop

- Students will be able to start from one idea, establish a team, develop a plan, design, and build a collaborative investigative journalistic project.

Access conditions

- Students or holders of a degree (BA or MA) in any area or the public, if they have a relevant CV validated by the coordination, want to have collaborative investigative journalism experience. Interdisciplinary expertise is a plus. 

COURSE PRICE TO BE BEARED BY THE TRAINEE: €450

(The price of the course is €900.00 and will have the support of 50% from the PRR - Living the Future Academy Project - in the form of a scholarship, in line with the type of scholarships provided for in the Regulation for the Attribution of Incentives for the Training of Young People and Adults within the Living the Future Academy Project).

Under Regulation No 1126/2022 for the Attribution of Incentives for the Training of Young People and Adults, published in the DR of November 21, 2022:
  • Any financial benefits that may be granted under the PRR are conditional on candidates holding a Portuguese NIF and residing in Portugal, at the time of the course;
  • Trainees who wish to repeat training for which they have not been approved and for which they have already benefited from a scholarship are not eligible for a scholarship;
  • Trainees who register in a course or initiative financed by PRR-LFA (Investments RE-C06.i03.03 – Adult Incentive and RE-C06.i04.01 – Impulso Jovens STEAM, opened by Notice 01/PRR/2021), accept that they were aware of the total/partial discount on the price defined for the course, initiative and/or attendance expenses and authorize that it be granted if its attribution is decided under the regulations in force.

Predominant scientific area

Informação e jornalismo

Languages of learning/evaluation

Inglês

Study plan

1 Collaborative investigative reporting and data

- Develop skills in the area of in-depth reporting, information databases and data research in the public interest. 

2 Contemporary journalistic production

- Showcasing and demonstrating the various formats and ways of presenting and disseminating the results of investigative journalism, as well as aspects related to funding, collaborating, co-publication, legal defence and more. 

3 Crossborder investigative reporting

- The objectives of this curricular unit are to provide trainees with a first approach to investigative reporting through good practices and general grasp of all phases of the process. 

4 Project

- Form a team, develop a plan, file reporter notes, design and build a collaborative investigative journalistic project, deal with the legal aspects. 

Promoters

Education Institutes

University of Coimbra

Organic unit(s)

Rectorate

Living the Future Academy Project

Sponsors

Investimento RE-C06-i03 - Incentivo Adultos e Investimento RE-C06-i04 - Impulso Jovens STEAM no âmbito do Projeto Living the Future Academy apoiado pelo PRR - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência e pelos Fundos Europeus Next Generation EU.