It feels like since Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, we've gone no further in trying to discover what lies beyond this complex Balkan hyperbole. What does the Balkan and Turkey region actually mean for young Europeans? From October 2010, we're tearing down the mountains to visit eight capitals from the Balkans and Turkey to enlarge our minds - and not just the European Union. WITH YOU! Live from Tirana and Belgrade to Istanbul and Podgorica, join us to demystify south-eastern Europe via a series of written or photographed features from a young, pan-European, citizen journalist perspective. Talk to the people; uncover the issues which might just show us that maybe EU citizens should be trying to join the Balkans, not vice versa. 
The mission starts with a bang at our annual summer university in October. This year Turkey is the setting for potential participants having an opportunity to meet one another, share ideas. The mission will run with a monthly online publication of special editions of your investigations and photo reports. The mission ends with a bang in a photo exhibition in May 2011, featuring you as guests, and the best of the year's reports. Before we talk cocktails in Paris in September 2011 though, we need to know who's in, and what coverage you can help us to bring to the Balkans/ Turkey - APPLY TODAY.
 
Send us your CV, links to other reports you have done and one paragraph on how you're going to Balkan-ise/ Turk-ify cafebabel.com: Nabeelah Shabbir/ editors@cafebabel.com Take two minutes to answer our short survey and help us know more about you: CLICK HERE