Our second Climate Arena cohort at the Climate Arena conference 2023 in Vienna.
For the Vienna conference held in the autumn of 2023 in Vienna, 112 pitches were received – 14 fellows were selected. The pitches selected from each set of applications inevitably has a flavour or accent of its own.
See the word clouds below for keywords which characterised the Vienna cohort’s pitches, together with three examples of published stories.
Participants of the Vienna fellowship programme and the pre-conference day
- Arlis Alikaj is from Librazhd, Albania and works as a freelance journalist. His project’s proposed headline is: “Investigating the Green Claims: Banks in Albania Under Scrutiny for Environmental Shortcomings”
- Daniel Harper is from Vienna, Austria and works at Euronews as a freelancer. His project’s proposed headline is: “A Vanishing Corner: Baltic Coastal Communities Face Eroding Landscapes As Many Contemplate Abandoning Their Homes”
- Annick Hus is from Brussels, Belgium and works as freelance journalist and researcher. Her project’s proposed headline is: “Can we stop Europe being burned to the ground?”
- Tommaso Siviero is from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and works at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. His project’s proposed headline is: “European Union floods prevention funds are not effective”
- Leopold Salzenstein is from Toulouse, France and works as freelance journalist (part-time). His project’s proposed headline is: “The winners and losers of EU climate adaptation funds”
- Aline Nippert is from Paris, France and works as a freelance journalist specialising in energy and climate issues. She investigates “green technologies”. Her project’s proposed headline is: “Hydrocrisy: How The ’Hydrogen Revolution’ Benefits The Fossil Fuels Industry”
- Andrea Palasciano and Claire Brown are journalists, now both studying at Columbia University. Their project’s proposed headline is: “Private Skies – a web app to track the movements and carbon emissions of the private planes of top billionaires, corporate executives, and major corporations”
- Zhaoyin Feng is from Rotterdam, Netherlands and works as as a freelance journalist. Until recently, she was a correspondent at the BBC. Her project’s proposed headline is: “The Hidden Price of Your Flower Bouquets”
- Katerina Topalova is from Skopje, Northern Macedonia and works at the public broadcaster MTV. Her project’s proposed headline is: “How climate change will impact food security in Europe”
- Pablo Jimenez Arandia is from Barcelona, Spain and works as a freelancer. His project’s proposed headline is: “Meta is building a massive data center in rural Spain, but the land is drying up”
- Ruth de Frutos and Amal Tarbift are from Malaga, Spain and work at La Poderio, an Andalusian feminist media. Their project’s proposed headline is: “La Viñuela, the corrupted desert of the European tropical coast”
- Cecilia Butini is from Barcelona, Spain and works at The Wall Street Journal, but will soon be freelance. Her project’s proposed headline is: “Climate change fuels insect infestations that are threatening European forests”
- Kristin Karlsson is from near Stockholm, Sweden and works as freelance journalist and journalism teacher at Uppsala University. Her project’s proposed topic is “How ammonia emissions from are turning sustainable farming into non-sustainable, industrialised farming”
- Yagiz Alp Tekin is from Istanbul, Turkey and works as a freelance journalist. His project’s proposed headline is: “A Chronological Overview of Water Levels of European Lakes”
