To this end, MigraVoice will establish a cross-border community of experts with a migrant background, the MigraVoice Superpower Community (the ‘MigraVoice Superpowers Community’), which will serve as a platform allowing the knowledge of experts from different fields to be used as sources in European media content.
In addition, a temporary newsroom (Pop-up Newsroom) of 15 journalists with a migrant background will be set up, which will produce journalistic content on the main news topics, in the seven languages of the project (Spanish, Arabic, English, Hindi, French, Italian and Serbo-Croatian), adapted to different formats and platforms.
At the same time, journalists from mainstream European media outlets will develop their skills in inclusive journalism techniques in order to foster the production of more representative narratives and media coverage.
“This project represents a crucial step towards fostering inclusion, diversity and authenticity in journalism and in the media content consumed by Europeans. By giving people with a migrant background the opportunity to share their perspectives, MigraVoice not only enriches the media landscape, but also contributes to a more dynamic and inclusive European society,” said Samuel Allan, Impact Project Coordinator at Fundación Maldita.es.
What will Fundación Maldita.es do?
The experts from the MigraVoice Superpower Community (the MigraVoice Superpowers Community) will be included in the platform The MigraVoice Center, a database where media professionals and European citizens will be able to consult experts with a migrant background. The technological development of The MigraVoice Center will be carried out by Fundación Maldita.es.
In addition, journalists from the foundation will deliver fact-checking and social media journalism workshops to members of the temporary newsroom (Pop-up Newsroom) and will also contribute to the production and dissemination of content with a migrant perspective that combats disinformation on various topics, as part of the project’s dissemination campaign.
The consortium includes organisations from 5 countries producing content in 7 languages
The consortium is made up of:
- Fundación Maldita.es (Spain) is a non-profit foundation that builds public trust by fighting disinformation through journalism, education, technology, research and public advocacy.
- Raseef22 (Germany) is the first regional Arabic media outlet focused on underrepresented communities: women, ethnic and religious minorities, LGBTQ+, young people and disadvantaged groups, and focuses on fostering a new civic awareness and promoting new values aligned with human rights to build a better future.
- Media Diversity Institute Global (Belgium) works internationally to promote accurate coverage and nuanced reporting on issues of race, religion, ethnicity, social class, age, disability, gender and sexual identity across media landscapes worldwide.
- The London Story (Netherlands) is a non-profit foundation that investigates human rights violations and abuses, analyses and documents governmental and non-governmental actions that infringe upon them, and advocates for justice, peace and collective action.
- Are We Europe (Belgium) is a foundation that works to create a borderless pan-European media space, developing opportunities that shape, diversify and strengthen the European media landscape and publishing stories on issues affecting European identities.
- Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (Italy) is a group of experts focused on Southeast Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus, exploring social, political and cultural transformations in six European Union (EU) member states, seven countries involved in the EU enlargement process, and much of post-Soviet Europe engaged in the European Neighbourhood Policy.
The project has a total budget of €653,504.86, of which Fundación Maldita.es will receive €106,117.75 over 18 months.