Visits to Finland by journalists from the developing countries

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The aim of the project is to build networks between Finnish and developing country journalists and to show what openness and freedom of the press means in practice. Main objective of these media visits is to support sustainable political, economic and social development of developing countries according to the development policy and development cooperation objectives of Finland. The total value of the project is 50 000€ and it consists of the following parts: 1. Media Visit on Circular Economy (3/2018) 2. thisisFINLAND Foreign Correspondents’ Programme (08/2018) 3. Visit to Helsinki Education Week 5.- 9.11. and HundrED Innovation Summit 7.-9. 4. Evaluation of the media visits. Evaluation includes all ODA-visits 2015-2018