Call for papers/participation

We invite journalism educators and researchers to submit papers, presentations, workshops, and best practices that focus on:

• Innovative approaches to teaching journalism as a meaningful and sustainable career
• Pedagogies that promote professional resilience, well-being, and purpose among journalism students
• Case studies on fostering joy, motivation, and identity in journalism education
• Curriculum design that integrates emotional intelligence, ethics, and storytelling
• Strategies for supporting students’ mental health and work-life balance in journalism training
• Best practices in mentorship, peer support, and newsroom simulation in the classroom
• Teaching journalism in times of crisis: cultivating hope, critical engagement, and civic responsibility
• Cross-cultural and comparative perspectives on sustaining journalism as a calling
• Research on burnout, disengagement, and professional precarity – and how education can address them
• The role of educators in shaping positive newsroom cultures and future-ready journalists

Please send your proposal and a short description (250 words) via a proposal submission form BEFORE 10 March 2026:

Can’t wait to see you in Tartu!