Journalistic material on the Baltic Sea

1. Name and title of the person who formulated the commitment

Kaarina Korkeaoja, Director, Management Assistant and Journalist Education Unit

2. Name of the committing organization

HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences

Please indicate also the type of the organisation

other

Type of the committing organisation, if other

University of Applied Sciences

3. Home country of the committing organisation

Finland

Organization homepage (like www.bsas.fi)

www.haaga-helia.fi

4. Contact person – content of the commitment – name

Kaarina Korkeaoja

Contact person – content of the commitment – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

kaarina.korkeaojaREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]haaga-helia.fi

Contact person – content of the commitment – phone number

+358 50 526 6634

5. Contact person – for communication – name

Taru-Lotta Gumse

Contact person – for communication – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

taru-lotta.gumseREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]haaga-helia.fi

Contact person – for communication – phone number

+358 40 562 9557

6. Contact person – for communication – postal address

Ratapihantie 13
00520 Helsinki

9. Commitment title and designation/acronym etc (that you wish to use)

Journalistic material on the Baltic Sea

10. Nature of commitment

Professional service

11. Description of commitment and the implementation strategy

HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences cooperates with BSAG by taking the Baltic Sea as a theme to selected courses. Journalist students produce journalistic material in Finnish on the Baltic Sea for BSAG and management assistant students translate the texts into various languages. First, a team of journalist students cover the Baltic Sea Action Summit as the BSAG’s media team and prepare journalistic material for the BSAG internet site.

12. Focus area (see HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan)

Awareness Raising

13. Objective of commitment and its impact on the Baltic Sea (temporary, permanent, etc.)

The objective is to raise awareness of the Baltic Sea problems and the ongoing improvement work by producing journalistic material. The impact on the Baltic Sea is indirect but increases awareness and makes people think and act in a more responsible way in order to save the Baltic Sea.

14. What is needed for the commitment to be successful? (one-time action, continuous support or/and financing, support for a certain time period)

Cooperation with BSAG

15. Geographic scope of the commitment (Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Proper, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat, the whole Baltic Sea, etc.)

The whole Baltic Sea

17. Is your commitment/contribution a highly significant, significant, medium or minor effort to your organisation?

Significant effort

18. Starting date

2010 January 1^st

20. Expected commitment duration

other

Expected commitment duration, if other

12 - 18 months

19. First / next milestone - title

Baltic Sea Action Summit

First / next milestone - date

2010 February 10^th

First / next milestone - description

A team of journalist students cover the Baltic Sea Action Summit as the BSAG’s media team.

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