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The German school system is facing major challenges: A shortage of teachers, growing educational deficits, a lack of equal chances, a renovation backlog of 45 billion euros in school construction. This makes well-founded reporting on today's education issues all the more important. However, many newsrooms do not reflect this. This is where the Schöpflin Foundation, the Wübben Foundation and the ZEIT Foundation come in and jointly offer an advanced training scholarship for reporting on the school system.
There are only a few newsrooms and theme pages that focus exclusively on education topics. The goal of the Nina Grunenberg Fellowship is to give journalists and editors from news agencies in Germany the opportunity to better understand the structures of the education system and the challenge of schools in order to ensure qualified reporting.
The Nina Grunenberg Fellowship is aimed at interested journalists (freelance and salaried) and editors from local and national media and news agencies. Ten places will be offered in the first round of the fellowship. Participants will receive insights into the German school system, administration, state and federal politics, the status of science, and networking opportunities in two two-week blocks over the course of 2023.
With Nina Grunenberg (*1936 in Dresden; † December 28, 2017 in Hamburg) as the namesake of the Fellowship, the Schöpflin Foundation, the Wübben Foundation, and the ZEIT Foundation commemorate the outstanding education journalist, who was a member of the Science Council from 2000 to 2009, was deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT from 1987 to 1995, and also headed the "Knowledge Department" there for a time.
For more information on the fellowship and how to apply, click here.