Learn from the best in sports media: expert lecture series begins
Are you interested in exploring or developing a career in the sports media industry? Do you have the passion, but lack the direction? Own the ‘map’, but need a compass?
From Thursday, help is at hand! The Organising Committee of the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games is proud to present the U-Media Expert Lectures – an online series of professional insights into sports reporting, photography, and commentary.
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The first lecture - focusing on audio-descriptive commentary - will be delivered on 6 March 2025 by Lucas Schmelz and Maxim Brehme from T_OHR - a subsidiary of AWO Südwest gGmbH which provides blind and visually impaired people with access to cultural and sporting events.
Maxim Brehme states: "Let's work together to ensure that visually impaired and blind people no longer have to ask whether they can participate in the future, but rather whether they want to!"
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The lecture series forms part of the wider Erasmus+ project U-Media. The project additionally includes open-source educational materials and will soon announce a call for U-Media Ambassadors - a group of 12 students from Germany and across the EU who will contribute live media coverage during the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU Games.
These ambassadors will work at the FISU Games alongside other young reporters, photographers, and audio-descriptive commentators enrolled on the Young Sports Media Talents project – a pioneering expansion of the renowned FISU-AIPS Young Reporters Programme which closed to new applications on 28 February.
All interested students are warmly invited to attend the online lectures – whether or not they applied to the Young Sports Media Talents project, or intend to apply to become U-Media Ambassadors. Participation is free of charge.
The first lecture will be held from 17:00 to 18:30 (CET) on Thursday and is accessible from this page. New events will be added in the coming weeks. Why not take a look and seize this opportunity to learn from the best!
Photos: © Lucas Schmelz