A new generation of emigrants is growing up in Europe. Because they see few job opportunities in their home countries, more and more young people from Southern Europe are migrating to the economically stronger north of
Continents. In Greece, Spain, and southern Italy, the youth unemployment rate is partly over 50 percent.
The students of the Zeitenspiegel Journalism School therefore traveled from Reutlingen to Bari in May, taking the reverse route to research the prospects for young people in Southern Europe using the example of the Puglia region. The multimedia reports will be shown in the summer on www.reporterreisen.com published. The topics range from fishing to aircraft construction, from anti-mafia estates to the young Apulian music scene.
The journalism students are accompanied by Dominik Bauer (project management), “Spiegel” editor Bernhard Riedmann, “La Stampa”'s Germany correspondent Alessandro Alviani, and
Time mirror makers Uli Reinhardt, Erdmann Wingert, and Philipp Maußhardt. The research trip is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Wiedeking Foundation.