Participants

Kirill Artemenko, 23, Russia
Kirill has freshly completed his master's degree in technological entrepreneurship. Before that, he obtained a bachelor in journalism. Kirill worked as an assistant and translator to DER SPIEGEL correspondent Walter Mayr during his stay in St. Petersburg. He has been awarded with the Golden Pen Prize for being one of four best young journalists of the year.

Iulian Birzoi, 23, Romania
Iulian is finishing his thesis about data journalism for his bachelor studies. Since three years he has been working along his studies at the Romanian student newspaper Opina Studenteasca.

Petr Chernetckii, 23, Russia
Petr has studied journalism in Czech, Sweden and Russia, and has currently begun to examine the theory of journalism for his PhD Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the regional news website Krestianin.Ru. He was among the finalists of Spark of the South, the professional journalism award in South Russia.

Miroslav Caksiran, 22, Serbia
Miroslav is working as a journalist and live broadcaster at Radio Jat and Radio Karolina. He is studying journalism and media production and has participated at a European Youth Press Event 2013, live broadcasted from the Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin and assisted the campaigning for NGOs and the musical festival Exit in Novisad, Serbia.

Alice Corona, 25, Italy
Alice is a Data Journalist at Silk.co where she structures data and creates interactive reports for NGOs. She is also a research assistant at the Data J Lab, a virtual lab at Tilburg University on data journalism trends and techniques. She freelances for Wired Italy and datajournalism.it

Lucie Dupin, 26, France
Lucie works as a journalist for a monthly about EU transports policies in Strasbourg. She is also freelancing for Radio France and has been nominated for the French-German Journalism Award in 2012 and is president of an association dealing with European online media.

Aline Flor, 24, Portugal
Aline is an editor at the news web portal AEIOU. As a member of the European Youth Press she covered the sustainability workgroup at the European Youth Press Event in Strasbourg. She is trained in documentary cinema and entrepreneurial journalism for the digital age.

Laure Fourquet, 24, France
Laure is a French-born media professional with experience working in both investigative journalism and in the newspaper industry. Highly versed into European politics, she was reporting from the European Youth Event 2014 taking place in Strasbourg and is now working on multiple projects as a freelance. Laure recently graduated with First Class Honours from the London College of Communication and was awarded a distinction for her thesis on The Guardian’s revelations of mass surveillance.

Martín González Gómez, 20, Spain
Martín has completed a data internship at eldiario.es, a Spanish ground-breaking online newspaper. He studies Journalism in Barcelona and is involved in the local data community, attending to several hackathons and conferences. When he was in high school he completed a Google Code-In program, a challenge to attract young students to free software projects. He is a also member of KDE Spain, the Spanish association of users and developers of KDE, a free software project that aims to revolutionize the Desktop. http://martingonzalez.net

Maaike Goslinga, 24, The Netherlands
Maaike recently completed her master thesis in European Studies about British media coverage on Edward Snowden's mass surveillance revelations. She is currently working as an editor for the World Expo Rotterdam 2025 and will be starting another internship at crowdfunded media outlet De Correspondent in October. In the past, she was an intern at the European Journalism Centre in Maastricht, where she supported the Bill & Melinda Gates Innovation for Development Reporting Grant programme.

Ani Hovhannisyan, 25, Armenia
Ani is working for the NGO of Investigative Journalists of Armenia as a multimedia journalist. In her work she focuses on youth problems and is creating data visualizations. She further is the author of Armenian Blog Hetq Sard (http://sard.hetq.am)

Ana Kakalashvili, 21, Georgia
Ana has been the coordinator of a Digital Rights workgroup at the Federation of the Young European Greens in Brussels. Currently she is working as a Human Rights Lawyer´s Assistant at the Human Rights Education Monitoring Centre in Georgia and continues to blog for the Georgian Young Greens. She has also been a participant of the M100 YEJ in 2012.

Una Maria Kelly, 23, Ireland
Una Maria is a recent graduate of law and German. She has been one of 25 selected young journalists from across Ireland to cover the Irish presidency of the EU council in 2013 and currently works for a media monitoring service as well as writing for a local travel magazine in Berlin.

Olha Konsevych, 26, Ukraine
Olha is a postgraduate student at the Institute of Journalism. She has gained professional experience while working as a content manager at the East Europe Foundation, as a journalist at various Ukrainian online portals and in a training of conflict prevention and peace building for NGOs, business communities and mass media between Russia, Moldova and Ukraine.

Katerina Kuznetsova, 23, Russia
Katerina is a European Youth Press Board member with a degree from Leeds University in broadcast journalism. She has been a researcher for two BBC programmes as well as a reporter and presenter of Missis Universe 2012. She has been a participant of M100 YEJ in 2013.

Nerea Martínez García, 23, Spain
Nerea is finishing her degree in journalism. She obtained her knowledge about data journalism through various conferences and workshops, at the Centre for Investigative Journalists and Journalists Association of Catalonia. Nerea has worked at the internet department of Radio Catalunya.

Roman Melnyk, 23, Ukraine
Roman is obtaining his master in political science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He has won a grant from Microsoft for realising an interactive crime map of Ukraine and has consequently launched a first crime map of Kyiv. He was a participant at M100 YEJ in 2011, since then he has been participating at educational study trips to Switzerland and Sweden within the program Young Generation Will Change Ukraine.

Yarina Mykhyalyshyn, 23, Ukraine
Yarina is finishing her master degree and has created the infographics for Yanukovych Leaks. As a result of her experience in designing infographics and interactive visualizations, one of her interactive maps was used by the Economist. An interactive map about the antiterrorist operation in the Eastern part of Ukraine became the top news application in the Ukrainian segment of Google Play. She was participating at M100 YEJ in 2012.

Petr Obrovsky, 26, Czech Republic
Petr is an editor of the online new service Czech Television. He graduated with a master degree on media & communication studies. He took part in a panel discussion focussing on the role and possibilities of the current public media service while finishing his bachelor studies in economy and management.

Oliver Schnuck, 26, Germany
Oliver studied computer science and urban studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In his thesis he deals with gentrification from a data-driven perspective. He is also completing an internship at the online department of Süddeutsche Zeitung, contributing to and working on data-journalistic projects.

Krystina Shveda, 25, Belarus
Krystina works as a media manager at EPAM Information Technologies in Minsk. She holds a degree from Belarusian State University, of the Faculty International Relations, and has completed several trainings on data driven journalism, data science and data visualizations.

Nikola Simic, 22, Croatia
Nikola works as an editor at the newspaper Global where he writes for the European Union and foreign affairs column. He is a student of journalism, where he received an award as a best student of his generation.

Danilo Supino, 26, Italy
Danilo created his own periodic online review of data journalism after participating in a visual and data driven journalism course by La Stampa and Google. He worked at the Italian newspaper Fuorilemura where he often examined data from the EU.

Jim van Nunen, 23, Belgium
Jim recently graduated as an engineer in computer science and participated in the European Youth Media days to observe how the EU is acting upon challenges of the digital revolution. For his essay "We are the 100%" about the economic downfall he was selected for the Young Vision Award in 2011.

David Tvrdon, 26, Slovakia
David decided to swap his career in medicine with journalism. His bachelor's degree was achieved thanks to a thesis about Data Journalism in Slovakia, now he is moving towards a master degree. Alongside his studies he works for the agency Curaden as a copy writer and community manager.

Anna Wojcik, 25, Poland
Anna is finishing her master's degree in cultural anthropology and law. She also works an assistant editor at Visegrad Insight and as editor at Res Publica Nowa and New Europe 100. In 2014, Anna qualified for the 44th St Gallen Symposium as a "Leader of Tomorrow".

Ani is working for the NGO of Investigative Journalists of Armenia as a Multimedia Journalist. In her work she focuses on youth problems and is creating Data visualizations. She further is the author of Armenian Blog " Hetq Sard" (http://sard.hetq.am)

Jim van Nunen, 23, Belgium

Jim recently graduated as an engineer in computer science and participated in the European Youth Media days to observe how the EU is acting upon challenges of the digital revolution. For his essay "We are the 100%" about the economic downfall he was selected for the Young Vision Award in 2011.

Oliver Schnuck, 26, Germany

Oliver studied computer science and urban studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In his thesis he deals with gentrification from a data-driven perspective. He is also completing an internship at the online department of Süddeutsche Zeitung, contributing to and working on data-journalistic projects.

Lucie Dupien, 26, France

Lucie works as a journalist for a monthly about EU transport policies in Strasbourg. She is also freelancing for Radio France and has been nominated for the French-German Journalism award in 2012 and is president of an association dealing with European online media.

Laure Forquet, 24, UK

Laure is a trainee journalist in England. She has been researching about the Freedom of Information Act. She has been part of the European Youth Press at the European Media Days 2014 in Strasbourg and is currently working with the London website Arts news. She obtained a Bachelor in Journalism at the London College of Communication with her thesis about a study of the Guardian's revelation on mass surveillance.

Ana Kakalashvili, 21, Georgia

Ana has been the coordinator of a Digital Rights Working Group at the Federation of the Young European Greens in Brussels. Currently she is working as a Human Rights Lawyer´s Assistant at the Human Rights Education Monitoring Centre" in Georgia and continues to blog for the Georgian Young Greens. She has also been a participant of the M100 YEJ in 2012.

Una Maria Kelly, 23, Ireland

Una Maria is a recent graduate of Law and German. She has been one of 25 selected young journalists from across Ireland to cover the Irish Presidency of the EU council in 2013 and currently works for a media monitoring service as well as writing for a local travel magazine in Berlin.

Alice Corona, 25,Italy / The Netherlands

Alice is a Data Journalist at Silk.co where she structures data and creates interactives reports for NGOs. She is also a research assistant at the Data J Lab, a virtual Lab at Tilburg University on Data Journalism trends and techniques. She freelances for Wired Italy and datajournalism.it

Danilo Supino, 26, Italy

Danilo created his own periodic online review of data journalism after participating in a visual and data driven journalism course by La Stampa and Google. He worked at the Italien newspaper Fuorilemura where he often examined data from the EU.

Maaike Goslinga, 24, The Netherlands

Maaike is writing her Master thesis in European Studies about the discourse analysis of British media coverage on Edward Snowden´s mass surveillance revelations. She has been an intern at the European Journalism Centre in Maastrich, where she supported the Bill & Melinda Gates "Innovation for development Reporting Grant" Programm and will be starting another intership at the crowdfunded online Newspaper De Correspondent.

Nikola Simic, 22, Croatia

Nikola works as an editor at the newspaper Global where he writes for the European Union and Forgein Affairs column. He is a student of journalism, where he received an award as a best Student of the Generation .

Anna Wojcik, 25,Poland

Anna is finishing her Master in Cultural Anthropology and Law. She also works an assitant editor at "Visegrad Insight", "Res Publica Nowa" and "New Europa 100". In 2014, Anna received the 44th "St Gallen Symposium Wings of Excelence" Award and qualification as a "Leader of Tomorrow".

Aline Flor, 24,Portugal

Aline is an editor at the news web portal AEIOU. As a member of the European Youth Press she covered the sustainability workgroup at the European Youth Press Event in Strasbourg. She is trained in Documentary cinema and entrepreneurial journalism for the digital age.

Iulian Birzoi, 23, Rumania,

Iulian is finishing his thesis about Data Journalism for his Bachelor studies. Since 3 years he has been working along his studies at the romanian Student newspaper "Opina Studenteasca" .

Katerina Kuznetsova, 23, Russia

Katerina is a European Youth Press Board member with a degree from Leeds University in Broadcast Jounalism. She has been a researcher for two BBC programmes as well as a reporter and presenter of Missis Universe 2012. She has been a participant of M100 YEJ in 2013.

Kirill Artmenko, 23, Russia

Kirill has freshly completed his Master degree in Technological Entrepreneurshp. Before he obtained a Bachelor in Journalism. Kirill worked as an assistant and translator to DER SPIEGEL correspondent Walter Mayr during his stay in St.Petersburg. He has been awarded with the "Golden Pen" Prize for being one of four bests young journalists of the year.

Petr Chernetckii, 24, Russia

Petr has studied journalism in Czech, Sweden and Russia, and has currently begun to examine the theory of journalism for his PDH studies. He is the editor in chef of the regional news website Krestinian.Ru. He was among the finalists of "Spark of the South", the professional journalism award in South Russia.

Miroslav Caksiran, 22, Serbia

Miroslav is working as a journalist and live broadcaster at Radio Jat / Radio Karolina. He is studying Journalism and Media Production and has participated at a European Youth Press Event 2013, live broadcasted from the Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin and assisted the campaigning for NGOs and the musical festival Exit in Novisad, Serbia.

David Tvrdon, 26, Slovakia

David decided to swap his career in Medicine with Journalism. His bachelor degree was achieved thanks to a thesis about Data Journalism in Slovakia, now he is moving towards a Master. Alongside his studies he works for the agency Curaden as a copy writer and community manager.

Nerea Martinez García, 23, Spain

Nerea is finishing her degree in Journalism. She obtained her knowledge about Data Journalism through various conferences and workshops, at the Centre for Investigative Journalists and Journalists Association of Catalonia. Nerea has worked at the Internet Department of Radio Catalunya.

Petr Obroskyr, 26, Czech Republic

Petr is an editor of the online new service Czech Television. He graduated with a Master degree on Media & Communication Studies. He took part in a panel discussion focussing on the role and possibilities of the current public media service while finishing his bachelor studies in Economy and Management.

Olha Konsevycvh, 26, Ukraine

Olha is a postgraduate student at the Institue of Journalism. She has gained professional experience while working as a content manager at the East Europe Foundation, as a journalists at ukrainian online portals and in a training of conflict prevention and peace building for NGOs, bussiness communities and mass media between Russia, Moldova and Ukraine.

Roman Melnyk, 23, Ukraine,

Roman is obtaining his Master in Politcal Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He has won a grant from Microsfot for realising the interactive crime map of Ukraine and has consecuently launched a first crime map of Kyiv. He was a participant at M100 YEJ in 2011, since then he has been particpating at educational study trips to Switzerland and Sweden within the porgram "Young Generation Will Change Ukraine".

Yarina Mykhyalyshyn, 23 , Ukraine

Yarina is finishing her MA degree and has created the infographics for Yanukovych Leaks. As a result of her experience in designing infographics and interactive visualizations, one of her interactive maps was used by the Economist. An interactive map about the antiterrorist operation in the Eastern part of Ukraine became the top news application in the Ukrainian segment of Google Play. She was participating at M100 YEJ in 2012.

Krystina Shveda, 25, Belarus,

Krystina works as a Media Manager at EPAM Information Technologies in Minsk. She holds a degree from Belarusian State University, of the Faculty International Relations, and has completed several trainings on Data Driven Journalism, Data Science and Data Visualizations.