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Streets of Europe – Call for Photos

Maybe you have already had a look on the ‘Streets of Europe’ blog which I took over and reactivated in October. Fabien (from Babel Auvergne) and I would like to vitalize it with your contribution.

SoE This babelblog is ‘devoted’ to European streets, features that make the streets alive, characteristics that let us remember and we want to keep them on pictures. I have already launched the View from my flat section, and I am planning Round 'n' round Carousel.

I think both have a talkative name! You can look at some posts from the View from my flat here, and from the Round 'n' round Carousel here.

If you have photos for these sections or if you have other great shots you want to share, please send your photos with a short comment (e.g. what we can see on the photo, where you took it, why you like it, etc) to my e-mail address.

Thanks everyone!

Csilla

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Tuesday, February 3 2009 By Csacsillus - Making of

New year 2009: make a will!

To hail in 2009 on 1 January, cafebabel.com is gathering your wishes. Whether you are student or already on the job market, a true European or a true eurosceptic, traveller or stay-in kind of person, activist or ‘passivist’, share your good resolutions with us and let us know what your wishes are!

Be original. Be funny! Be no longer than 500 signs (characters with spaces included!) Don’t forget to send a picture of you with your piece. Send everything tied up in a nice red virtual knot to redaction@cafebabel.com, the soonest the better, before 15 December. Thanks everyone!

Jane

(Photo: rusty/flickr)

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Friday, December 5 2008 By Jane - Making of

In three words:who still dreams about Europe?

Utopie post dossier Cafebabel.com is preparing a special edition about Europe: is it still a utopia? Institutions seem ever-distant and far away from the reality of daily life... Through crossing borders, communication, helping each other... what is a better future for a whole continent and its people?

Write to Jane at redaction@cafebabel.com, and define what Europe means to you! Three words, no more (please add your sex and age). Read the results of this survey on 30 September on cafebabel.com.

If you are lacking inspiration : here is a speech from the French writer Victor Hugo, given on 21 August 1851 during a peace congress in Paris:

'All of us here, we say to France, to England, to Prussia, to Austria, to Spain, to Italy, to Russia, we say to them, A day will come when your weapons will fall from your hands, the United States of Europe, stretching out their hands across the sea, the recognition of all nationalities, the restoration of the historical unity of nations'

(Credits:Guesus/flickr)

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Wednesday, September 17 2008 By Prune - Making of

cafebabel.com is hiring!

In line with the development of our website cafebabel.com, we are looking for a:

Community editor, based in Paris and a
Polish editor, based in Warsaw

Please click on each link in order to download the job offers.

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Wednesday, June 18 2008 By natalia - Making of

Cafebabel call for articles Society February 2008

Babelians, come and find out what 2008 February’s Society section will be about!

To write or to propose different subjects for cafebabel’s society section you simply need to be a member of our community. Nothing easier: go on the homepage just click on the red button “participate!” in the upper right to find out more about the conditions of being a writer for cafebabel.com.

If you’re interested in one of the topics below, do not hesitate to contact our society editor Jane at redaction@cafebabel.com. We’re looking forward to reading you in 7 languages!

1. Dossier : Your first steps in work world
a. 1000 ways of writing a CV
b. Can Erasmus change your career?
c. "I am a French baker in London " Working world first impressions.
d. Best of sites to find a European job

2. Divorce in a click and let's go dancing

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Tuesday, January 15 2008 By Jane - Making of

Cafebabel Call for articles CULTURE February 2008

Babelians, come and find out what 2008 February’s CULTURE section will be about! To write or to propose different subjects for cafebabel’s CULTURE section you simply need to be a member of our community.

Nothing easier: go on the homepage just click on the red button “participate!” in the upper right to find out more about the conditions of being a writer for cafebabel.com.

If you’re interested in one of the topics below, do not hesitate to contact our cultural editor Katharina at redaktion@cafebabel.com. We’re looking forward to reading you in 7 languages!

1. DOSSIER: ARTS AND YHE CITY

a. Make arts from city dust: Romanian artist Nicolae Comanescu

b. Monsieur Chat: European tagging

c. Interview with young Paris architecture photographer

d. Eboy design: German-Norwegian pixelcity artists in Berlin

e. Lokstoff: when theatre discovers the city (author: Yvonne Pöppelbaum)

f. Photo-gallery: arts and the city

Monsieur Chat

2. Cultural Agenda for January

3. Literature Agenda for February

4. Culture projects panorama: “European Year of intercultural dialogue”

5. Sweet & Tender: European art project

6. Torino: World Capital of Design 2008

7. Film: Bianco e Nero - discrimination in European film business?

8. Beatles’ song as archi project in Stavanger (cultural capitals 2008)

9. Tokio Hotel phenomenon swaps Europe (author: Yvonne Pöppelbaum)

10. Expo “C’est notre histoire” + debate with Simone Veil (author: Graziella JOST)

11. Italian photographers without limits (author: Valeria Ibello)

12. Hong-Kong animation in Europe (author: Inga Pietrusinska)

13. “Tower of Babel” idies out without your help! THIS LANGUAGE SECTION REALLY NEEDS AUTHORS! I look forward to recieving your proposals and ideas. Think of any strange expression in your country and look up its origin, compare idiomatic expressions in the babelian languages, explain why a film title has been translated in a very bad way. Everything around you could be a Tower of Babel! Do not hesitate to contact me if you need help or hints! WE ARE THERE TO HELP YOU.

Katharina Kloss

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By Katha - Making of

May 68 pictures needed!

Remember the old pics of your parents with long hairs and wearing wierd large pants ? Did they tell you their memories about demonstrations in the streets of Paris, Roma or Prague during the year 1968 ? Were they students or workers ?

Cafébabel.com is going to publish very soon a weekly edition to celebrate 1968 anniversary. Please, send us your family photos of this particular year when Europe experienced waves of emancipations. We need these pictures to illustrate our edition.

You can scan your pics and send them to redaction@cafebabel.com before january 15th. Don't forget to write a small description of the picture, the place and the date when it was taken. Credits will be mentionned. Thanks you!

Hippie family

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Monday, January 7 2008 By Jane - Making of

Call for blog reviews

I guess each of you has a favorite babel blog, the one you find most interesting, funniest, the one you go on every day to see if there are some new posts. Now you have a chance to express your interest - or maybe tell which ones you hate? - by writing about it!

We are looking for bloggers and blog readers willing to write blog reviews for cafebabel.com.

It’s easy – check one of already published blog reviews – all you have to do is write a short comment on 3-5 posts from different babelblogs, saying what you liked about it, making reader want to go on blog (it means: not spoiling the surprise! ) and spicing it up with a smart comment.

Interested? Contact me before writing at redakcja@cafebabel.com

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Friday, January 4 2008 By natalia - Making of

Call for articles Politics february 2008

ISSUE: European Politics
PUBLICATION: February 2008
EDITOR IN CHARGE: Fernando Navarro
redaccion@cafebabel.com

RULES: This “Call for articles & information” aims to find writers for the next proposed issues related to the Cafebabel.com European Politics section during February 2008. If you are interested in writing a paper about current issues described below, please send me a short outline of the proposal. (English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Italian or Portuguese read).

If you request more information about the current issues described below, do not hesitate to feed us with, so that we can focus much better our information and editorial offer.

Be careful: please, contact me before writing!

If you have any other idea for an article in Politics section July 2007, do not hesitate to communicate it to me as soon as possible.

WE WANT TO COVER:

24th January: Drugs in Europe
4th February: Treaty ratifications
06th February: Muslims economy
07th February: Nuclear energy in Europe
13th February: Streets of Europe
14th February: Commissioners blog review
15th February: Videopolitics
28th February: Price of fuel

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Friday, December 21 2007 By Alberti - Making of

Call for articles Ñam nyam

PUBLICATION: Spring 2008
SECTION: Ñam Nyam
EDITOR IN CHEF: Fernando Navarro
redaccion@cafebabel.com

RULES: This call for authors and information aims to find writers for the next proposed issues related to Ñam nyam section of Cafebabel.com during the spring 2008. If you are interested in writing a paper about gastronomic issues desribed below, please send me a short outline with your concrete proposal.

Be careful: please, contact me before writing.

If you have any other idea for articles, do not hesitate to communicate it to me.

WE WANT TO COVER:

Michelin stars
Bio food
European kitchens = plenty of foreigners
Chocolate
Interview cook specialised in desserts

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Monday, December 17 2007 By Alberti - Making of