EYP StoryLab

The EYP StoryLab is a series of online workshops with communications experts designed to help young people turn topics they care about into purposeful media work. In an age where digital media is continuously becoming more influential and accessible for everyone, it’s important for creators to transform the topics close to our heart into informative, authentic, and engaging output.

With the StoryLab, we invite aspiring creators from all backgrounds and communications experience to three 60-minute online workshops that will teach participants how to start meaningful conversations and raise awareness within communities. Participation is free, online, and those who complete all three workshops will receive a certificate recognising their training in purpose-driven storytelling. All sessions can be attended as standalone workshops, or as a series of three.

About the sessions:

• 14 April, 18:00 CEST/12:00 EST: Journalism 101 – How people are trying to solve problems and what we can learn from their successes and failures.
  With Karli Zschogner, Solutions-Based Video Journalist
• 28 April, 18:00 CEST/12:00 EST: Different storytelling tools and how to use them – Understanding the resources at your disposal to communicate your ideas with impact.
  With Nikita Salukvadze, EYP Communications Manager
• May, date and time TBD: Journalism in practice – How to turn ideas into engaging stories and what works best for messaging and outreach.
  With Anna Saraste, Senior foreign affairs reporter at MTV Uutiset

Meet our trainers:

• Karli Zschogner – a Canadian solutions-based video journalist, filmmaker, and trainer. With combined degrees in Journalism and Conflict Studies and Human Rights she has published works including under CBC News, APTN National News, Up North Magazine, BBC News, and Tusaayaksat Magazine/Inuvialuit Communications Society. She has worked as a community journalism trainer/editor within rural/remote Indigenous communities for Journalists for Human Rights, which led to the spearheading of a monthly youth-led online and print newspaper.
• Nikita Salukvadze – Communications Manager of the EYP, he oversees editorial work, social media, communications material production, and coordinates content creation for network-wide events. With over a decade of experience in EYP, he knows from experience what it is like to be a self-taught professional in media. He is also experienced as a freelance videographer and graphic designer, producing digital content across different platforms, focusing on visual storytelling and narrative development.
• Anna Saraste – a senior foreign affairs reporter at Finland’s largest private news channel MTV Uutiset. Prior to joining the newsroom in Helsinki in 2025, she worked as Germany correspondent for MTV and for Finland’s leading economic newspaper Kauppalehti, covering German politics, markets and current affairs. She has also worked as a reporter and producer for Deutsche Welle’s English TV news in Berlin. In 2021, she published a non-fiction book on Europe’s rural areas and their support for populist parties.

The StoryLab is conducted in the framework of the EU-Funded Youth Together for Arctic Futures project. The project is led by the WWF Global Arctic Programme, in cooperation with the Arctic Youth Network, European Youth Parliament, Saami Council, Arctic Mayors’ Forum, Tromsø Kommune, University of Tromsø, and the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. This publication was funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the European Youth Parliament and partners and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.