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Video: 'Making of' cafebabel.com 'Babel Ackademy' Istanbul 2010

Every two years cafebabel.com mutters what the heck, let's break out of this virtual world and actually *hang out* with our collaborators. Thanks to some kind project funding are able to invite High Representatives of cafebabel.com local teams, writers and even a photographer to our 'summer ackademies'. This year the 'Babel Ackademy' was an autumn one, and in the auspices of a certain enticing city called Istanbul. All the more appropriate, since we used the occasion not only to have pan-European hugs and cultural clashes with our fellow networkers across this shiny happy citizen media, but also to launch two important projects we're running this and next year - Orient Express Reporter (OER) and Green Europe On The Ground (Green EOTG, currently recruiting journalists for Brussels in December). In honour of OER, which will span eight Balkan cities starting in Sarajevo this week (!), we were able to invite a new Balkan network of babelians, drawn from our strengths and sources from as far wide as Banja Luka-Paris to Zagreb via Belgrade, Sofia, Skopje and Prishtina...

Contact us if you have any questions! For OER editors@cafebabel.com, for Green EOTG o.tataru@cafebabel.com

Monday, November 22 2010 By Nabeelah - Making of

On the road to Warsaw

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!

Warsaw, Poland Caroline Venaille

Warsaw, Poland Emilie Prattico (right of the sofa) - Katharina Kloss

Warsaw, Poland Caroline Venaille - Anna Karla

Warsaw, Poland Alexandre Heully - Aart-Jan Riekhoff

photos : ©cafebabel.com

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Tuesday, June 22 2010 By jean - Making of

Adriano Farano: “Ciao cafebabel”

Dear Babelians,

I would like to inform you that I no longer work for cafebabel.com.

After nine years with you, it’s time for me to turn the page of the wonderful story we’ve been writing together.

Since 2001, we have re-invented journalism with a new form of hybrid and productive collaboration. We’ve built what is today one of the oldest on-line publications in Europe – studied and discussed even in American universities. We have contributed to the emergence of a European public opinion raising the voice of our generation. We’ve been speaking our mind in all the languages of this continent and beyond.

Today, I want to tell you I feel myself so proud of this journey we spent together; so thankful for the relationship we had – I have learned a lot from each of you, always; so confident in the future of this project which is now chaired by Simon Loubris and directed by Alexandre Heully.

I also want to tell you I am so happy and excited about my new life. I am working now as independent consultant to help media companies in organizing their collaborative journalism experiences, leverage on new business models and go international.

But I am also to leave Europe for nine months. In August, I will fly to California since I have been awarded a Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford. I feel this opportunity as a sort of Erasmus 2.0. Let’s hope it will give me the same breath and spirit I felt with Nicola Dell’Arciprete and many of you in Strasbourg almost ten years ago – to open a new cycle of innovation for journalism.

Building a pan-European public sphere – that mission is still alive and is one worth pursuing it for longtime yet. The show must – and will – go on.

Grazie a tutti.

Ad maiora,

Adriano Farano

Saturday, May 15 2010 By jean - Making of

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