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Rhine-Ruhr 2025
National Young Reporters
Young Photographers
Young Commentators
YRP
OVERVIEW
For over a decade, aspiring sports journalists from all over the world have been developing and honing their skills on the celebrated 'FISU Young Reporters' programme. Created by the International University Sports Federation in 2011, the programme assembles a team of enthusiastic media talents for each edition of the FISU World University Games, where they spend around 12 days immersed in the mixed zones and media tribunes of a truly global multi-sport event. Here, the young journalists work alongside established media professionals, covering the sports with their voice recorders, microphones or cameras, and gaining invaluable insights into how a major multi-sport event is projected to the world.
Now the Organising Committee of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games is taking this project even further.
To join the team, young media talents aged 18 to 25 can apply in one of three roles: reporter, photographer, or commentator. The selected students will receive training from mentors and be invited to join the ranks of the world’s media covering the FISU Games this summer. For all successful candidates, free travel and accommodation will be provided.
All applicants will be invited to a series of online guest lectures this spring while the fortunate few chosen for FISU Games-time positions will be enrolled on a comprehensive training programme in the weeks before the sports festival of the year begins on 16 July 2025.
One Project: Three Programmes
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FISU-AIPS YOUNG REPORTERS
12 participants: six from Germany + six from outside Germany (non-EU)*
Production of news articles and flash quotes for the official Media Information System
Production of social media content
Conducting interviews in the mixed zone for the Host Broadcaster
*A separate programme 'U-Media Ambassadors' to recruit EU students with the support of the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme will begin in Spring in 2025.
**Please note, that two different application procedures are in place for FISU-AIPS International Young Reporters and FISU-AIPS National Young Reporters programmes concerning national and international applicants. For more information please click on the "Submit application" button below.
Rhine-Ruhr 2025 Young Photographers presented by NIKON
10 participants: five from Germany + five from outside Germany (incl from within the EU)
Production of photos for the official Media Information System
Editing of photos from competitions
The Organising Committee is proud to have Nikon as an Official Supporter Partner of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games. This enticing partnership means that for the duration of the ‘Young Photographers presented by Nikon’ programme, the world renowned brand will be the exclusive provider of camera equipment and accessories. Not only that: in the weeks before the FISU Games, Nikon will help select the programme participants and train them through a series of informative online workshops and onsite briefings. At the end, Nikon will award each of the three young photographers adjudged to have captured the best images during the FISU Games with a prize (Nikon camera and a share of a EUR 6,000 cash pool). Finally, a selection of the best shots from every ‘Young Photographers presented by Nikon’ will adorn the wall of the Main Press Centre in Messe Essen.
Rhine-Ruhr 2025 Young Commentators
Six participants from Germany
Audio-descriptive commentary of competitions in tandem with experienced professionals
Official media accreditation
U-Media: Learn. Practise. Shine.
U-Media
Just as every great moment needs a storyteller, so every great storyteller needs a network.
Enter U-Media – a new interactive educational portal from the organisers of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games.
Co-funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ Programme, U-Media will provide aspiring sports media professionals with a comprehensive resource including practical information, invaluable advice and tips from experts, and the latest media trends in sports reporting and photography.
Expected to go online in February 2025, the U-Media project will additionally recruit 12 'U-Media Ambassadors' - six from Germany and six from elsewhere within the EU - to join the bigger team of Young Sports Media Talents at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU Games. The U-Media Ambassadors will contribute media coverage from in and around the mixed zones of the world’s biggest multi-sport event for student-athletes. Accommodation and travel will be provided.
A public recruitment process is planned for Spring 2025 – stay tuned for updates!