The Lenaïc Fund is open. Apply… Support!

(B2) Lenaic was a journalist colleague, competent, smiling, with more than promising talent. Specializing in European issues, she was insightful and hard-working. Having worked first at Europolitique then at ViEUws (with the online magazine InsightTrade), she has become one of the best, if not "the" best specialist in European trade policy. Difficult field, because very technical, very complex, very political too, in which Lenaïc managed like a chef. His professionalism was recognized by all. She died of overwhelming cancer a year ago, in September 2015. She was 28 years old.

His parents, his friends have decided to honor his memory by creating a " Funds Lénaïc for journalism which offers a scholarship to two young female students who have recently graduated from an EU Member State and wish to start their career in the profession of European journalism. Tough career if ever there was one. But a very nice idea that "sticks" well to the image that I have kept of Lenaïc.

A Lenaïc grant for young journalists

Each selected participant will thus benefit from:

• A financial grant of €5
• A five or six month internship in a media based in Brussels, specializing in European affairs.

 There will be two internship periods of five months per year. The first takes place from March to July, the second from October to February. The first scholarships should be awarded in the spring of 2017. Two media in Brussels (Politico and Mlex) have already agreed to host the selected candidate(s).

Each beneficiary will be required to write a report at the end of their internship describing their achievements during the period of the scholarship.

How to apply?

If you are a graduatee from an EU country under 30 years old, and you want to work in European journalism in Brussels, prepare a motivation letter and your CV in English and send it to candidate@lenaic.eu. First deadline: December 31, 2016. Other informations here

This selection of a small group of finalists will be made by an independent jury. The final choice of the young journalist(s) to receive the scholarship award will be made by the organizing committee composed of the parents of Lénaïc, Aulde and Charles Vaudin d'Imécourt, John Clancy and David Thual. The Foundation benefits from the support of MEP Marietje Schaake.

To support the Foundation?

A first donation of 2000 euros was obtained with the team of " The Annual Press Review  (animated by press correspondents in Brussels, mainly Anglo-Saxons, who make an annual satirical review of life in Brussels). But funding remains to be secured. To support the Lenaic Foundation — which is placed within of the King Baudouin Foundation - the main Belgian foundation- It is Here

NB: The inauguration of this Foundation takes place this Thursday (November 10) at the Press Club Brussels Europe, 95 rue Froissart (Brussels), from 18 p.m. to 20 p.m.