Hello fellow babelians,

How is summer going? Are you road-tripping around Europe or rather enjoying the beautiful concept of staycation?

Well, since you're here, let's go over some of the most popular articles of Cafebabel this summer. A pretty heterogeneous list, if you ask me.

1. Youth in Exarchia, Athens: faces of ‘700 euro generation’ (photo-gallery)

2. Naked scans at Amsterdam airport

3. Teenage oral sex anti-smoking campaign shocks France (photo-gallery)

4. Contraception: buying the morning after pill in Europe

5. German nudists off Poland’s Baltic beaches!

In unrelated news, a new babelblog has just opened, if you're interested by the China-EU relationship and want to contribute, join the Facebook group!

And don't forget to take a look at our new project: the Orient-Express Reporter. We're sending off babelians around the Balkans, starting October 2010, this could be you!

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Cafebabel.com is a partner of the European Year Journalist Award 2010. It has been created by the European Commission in order to support and recognise journalists who contribute to an increased awareness and a broader understanding of poverty and social exclusion through their work.

Cafebabel.com readers should be interested: the competition is open to print, online, and audiovisual journalists who have articles published or news reports aired that cover the issues of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union. Their articles or news reports must be published or aired between 1 October, 2009 and 31 August, 2010 in a media outlet who has a headquarter editorial office in one of the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, or Norway.

The objectives of the EY Journalist Award are:

To recognise excellence in journalism in coverage of the issues of poverty and social exclusion

To create awareness of the EY2010 campaign among mass media representatives across the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, and Norway

To promote a better understanding of poverty and social exclusion; the causes and possible solutions

Interested? Simply complete for free the online submission form. The final date for entries is 24, September 2010.

Babel International is the non-profit association that publishes the European online citizen media cafebabel.com. The association aims to promote a European public opinion through participatory journalism and exchange between young people across borders.

Cafebabel.com is the first European media simultaenously translated into six languages: French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish. Thanks to a unique network of volunteers across Europe and a strong central newsroom of professionals in Paris, cafebabel.com is a community of over 10,000 Babelians and 22 local associations in Europe.

Innovation in the field of participatory journalism, cafebabel.com sends its best monthly volunteer journalists to bring the freshest news and debate from across Europe. For the period 2010/2011 cafebabel.com was selected for two calls for proposals of the European Commission on issues of EU enlargement and ecology.

As part of its development, cafebabel.com recruits:

A EUROPEAN PROJECT MANAGER (H / F)

YOUR MISSION

Under the supervision of the Commissioner General of the Association, in collaboration with the team in Paris, and in interaction with the network of local associations of cafebabel.com in Europe, you will be responsible for the:

• Coordination of programme coverage and discussions of the magazine cafebabel.com in the countries of Southeast Europe (8 stories, 5 debates) and the EU countries (10 reports, 10 segments): Respect scheduling, coordination of local teams, logistics participating journalists.

• Organisation of 3 summer schools of the association (40), bringing together young European journalists, members of the network of partner organisations. These will be held in Istanbul, Nice and Paris: logistics participants, preparation of booklet of participants, synthesis and evaluation of participants.

• Project communication: communication partnerships with sites and partner organizations, media management communication to the network, running a blog dedicated to the project

• Organisation of a photographic exhibition of the best photographs taken in the reporting of logistics, communications

• The achievement of qualitative reports destined for the European Commission

YOUR PROFILE

• In higher education in European cultural project management, communication or political science, you are sensitive to social issues in Europe and more specifically those related to enlargement, ecology and the Balkans

• With a first significant experience in the field of project management in European or international dimension, you have the real capacity for organisation and management of remote partners.

• Sensitive to the voluntary commitment, you know how to build support around a collective project

• With good drafting skills in French or English, you know communicating on the Internet and communication partnerships

• English and French fluent, another language is a plus

• A good knowledge of cultural associations and in the Balkans and / or Europe would be a plus.

YOUR CONTRACT

Fixed term contract (CDD) of 12-14 months. Salary: € 21,000 gross per year + 50% metro pass.

Position available immediately in Paris: 226 Rue Saint-Denis, 75002 Paris.

Send your application before July 28, 2010 by email only (CV in French + motivation letter in English) to Alexandre Heully, General Delegate to the following address a.heully@cafebabel.com, with the subject header JOB APPLICATION: EUROPEAN PROJECT MANAGER

Thanks, good luck and look forward to hearing from you.

Last week-end, our German editor, Katharina Kloss, travelled to Warsaw. Thjs trip was part of our Euro Crisis on the Ground program some of you might have heard about. Every month, one cafebabel.com editor gathers a team of 4 journalists and a photographer to discover a new european city and publish a package of articles in the magazine. Among the cities, there were Paris, Vienna, Berlin... and now Warsaw!

On the ground, our team met with some local friends as well as a polish journalist and a dutch researcher in order to share ideas and discuss about the polish economy and how it coped with the economical crisis better than most other European countries.

Check out the pictures and participants below. Articles are soon to come!

Caroline Venaille

Emilie Prattico (right of the sofa) - Katharina Kloss

Caroline Venaille - Anna Karla

Alexandre Heully - Aart-Jan Riekhoff

photos : ©cafebabel.com

Hello fellow readers, bloggers and passers-by,

This weekend, Babel International, the association behind Cafebabel.com, is holding its annual General Assembly in Paris. This is the time of the year when all members of the association and bloggers are coming from all over Europe to work on the objectives for the year ahead. We also are going to work on some new editorial guidelines and think about any improvements we could bring to the mag.

In short, if you have anything you want us to hear about, ideas, suggestions, critiques, it is the right time! Email me: j.anot@cafebabel.com.

As you can imagine, we won't be working day and night so there are a few social events organised, if you want to join us and meet us, let me know as well! If you're in Paris, both friday and saturday nights look very promissing!

Thank you again to all of you for reading and supporting us. It is a pleasure to work for Cafebabel and I hope you have just as much fun reading our articles.

Cheers,

Jean, your community manager.