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Thursday
, June 1
C2.07
10:00 •
Masterclass: Planning and coordinating cross-border investigations [Masterclass ticket needed]
13:00 •
Masterclass: Planning and coordinating cross-border investigations [Masterclass ticket needed]
C3.03
10:00 •
Masterclass: Investigating corporate lobbying [Masterclass ticket needed]
13:00 •
Masterclass: Investigating corporate lobbying [Masterclass ticket needed]
C3.05
10:00 •
Masterclass: Researching the EU [Masterclass ticket needed]
13:00 •
Masterclass: Researching the EU [Masterclass ticket needed]
C3.19
10:00 •
Hackday [Hackday ticket needed]
13:00 •
Hackday [Hackday ticket needed]
Cafeteria
09:30 •
Check-in and Coffee
12:00 •
Lunch
Friday
, June 2
Announced from aula
10:30 •
Networking welcome
Aula 1
10:00 •
Opening of the conference (transmitted from Aula 2)
11:30 •
Keynote: Why we need to investigate the EU (transmitted from Aula 2)
13:00 •
Don't be numbed by numbers
14:45 •
Lightning talks
16:30 •
Finding facts about people
Aula 2
10:00 •
Opening of the conference
11:30 •
Keynote: Why we need to investigate the EU
C2.05
13:00 •
Working for our food: Modern slavery in Europe
14:45 •
Working on labour rights? How to research closed groups
16:30 •
How to investigate Russian gas lobby - or any other network
C2.07
13:00 •
LobbyFacts - investigating EU lobbying
14:45 •
Finding Faces
16:30 •
Investigative journalists and artists - a dream team?
C2.23
13:00 •
Using isotope analysis to investigate a supply chain
14:45 •
Prepare for online harassment 1: Self-doxing
16:30 •
Prepare for online harassment 2: Analyse and plan!
C2.25
13:00 •
Working with flexible funding
14:45 •
Design thinking for solidarity 1
16:30 •
Design thinking for solidarity 2
C3.01
13:00 •
Tech tools and infrastructures for collaborations
14:45 •
Working with NGOs and activists - no problem or no-go?
16:30 •
How to use the user-unfriendly EU ETS database to track CO2 emissions
C3.03
13:00 •
Digital hygiene – password managers, social media settings, 2FA (introductory session)
14:45 •
MEP Index - how do your country's MEPs fare in the integrity test?
16:30 •
Lost in Europe: investigating child trafficking around asylum centers
C3.04
13:00 •
Web basics: how the web works, and how to scrape it
14:45 •
Basic rules of good data design
16:30 •
Scraping without code: using third-party tools to scrape websites
C3.05
13:00 •
Lessons from difficult FOI processes
14:45 •
Why wait for leaks? Find breaking news EU stories with FOI
16:30 •
Biggest EU Subsidy Pot ever: Who gets billions from the EU recovery files?
C3.10
13:00 •
Farm subsidies - dive into the data, learn who gets the money
14:45 •
How to think about collaborative science journalism
16:30 •
Fueling war - how a local story turned into major international research
C3.11
13:00 •
Extract patterns from messy data
14:45 •
Cozying up to your computer: an introduction to the command line
16:30 •
When Excel explodes: techniques for handling large datasets
C3.15
13:00 •
Clean data like a pro with OpenRefine
14:45 •
Tracking changes with GitHub Actions
16:30 •
Python for beginners
C3.18
13:00 •
The art of sonification: How to make your data sound
14:45 •
Arena Climate Network: what should we research together?
16:30 •
Sue the bastards?
C3.19
13:00 •
Reconstructing the Melilla massacre - how to present a well known story
14:45 •
Tracking the Wagner group from Africa to Europe
16:30 •
Making research data from text
Cafeteria
09:00 •
Check-in and Coffee
12:00 •
Lunch
14:15 •
Coffee break
16:00 •
Break (cold drinks only)
18:15 •
FOI Party and Art Auction
TBA
14:30 •
Individual safety consultations
Saturday
, June 3
Aula 1
09:30 •
Follow the Money of European political parties
11:15 •
Suspicion machines: welfare surveillance algorithms revealed
15:15 •
War and muscles on TikTok: Investigating the most popular app in the world
17:00 •
Big Plastic in Europe – a story of power abuse and green-washing
Aula 2
13:30 •
Friend or foe: using AI as an investigative tool
C2.01
09:30 •
Forever Pollution Project: how to practice “peer-reviewed” journalism
11:15 •
Three years of European housing investigation: A guide
13:30 •
How to fund journalism better
15:15 •
The non-voter time bomb: mapping voter abstention in Europe
17:00 •
Investigative journalism in audio: podcasting beyond true crime
C2.02
09:30 •
How to communicate data so people understand you
13:30 •
Europe's Missing Emails
15:15 •
Phishing 101 (introductory session)
17:00 •
Getting Started with Satellite Imagery
C2.05
09:30 •
Save safely! Secure documentation of your web findings
11:15 •
Scrutinising EU funds in your country: how to find the data you need
13:30 •
Hackday findings: The inequalities of work and wage
15:15 •
Googling for nerds
17:00 •
Find more through structured Internet Research
C2.07
09:30 •
Mapping Q-Anon in Europe, on Telegram and beyond
11:15 •
Missing data: An updated map of femicides in Europe
13:30 •
How to work with traumatized sources
15:15 •
The coordinator - the unsung hero of cross-border collaborations
17:00 •
Child trafficking: inspiration for an investigation
C2.15
09:30 •
The human aspect of FOI
11:15 •
Arena Food & Water meeting: Let’s talk about future investigations!
13:30 •
How to find sources, offline and online
15:15 •
The Devil in the Data - researching sports's data and betting industry
17:00 •
Collaborating across borders (advanced session)
C2.17
09:30 •
Working for us: Human trafficking and exploitation in Europe
11:15 •
Labour in Europe - research on the ground and in the EU institutions
13:30 •
On the ground – learning from a workers’ aid group in Germany
15:15 •
The future of work in the digital age: Dark sci-fi utopia on its way to become reality?
17:00 •
What to do when you don't have the perfect dataset for an investigation?
C2.21
09:30 •
Building a (business) case on data
11:15 •
How to balance costs and (digital) safety
13:30 •
Doing it all - combining skills in (small) teams
15:15 •
Engaging with hard-to-reach communities
17:00 •
You want impact? Let's work on it!
C2.23
09:30 •
Tracking wildlife crime in your country
11:15 •
Futureproof your investigation with the whole team
13:30 •
Rural Observatory: let´s look into the EU data on rural areas (and find stories)
15:15 •
Researching alt-right and conservative groups online: blueprints for an investigation
C2.25
09:30 •
How to fact-check your data work for an investigative piece?
11:15 •
Töpfer Stiftung (closed meeting)
13:30 •
Managing chaos: Huge leaks, huge headaches
15:15 •
From reporter to subject of surveillance
17:00 •
Toxic data: working with graphic imagery and other nasties
C2.28
09:30 •
We have been SLAPPed!
11:15 •
How to avoid SLAPP lawsuits – and what to do if you get them anyway
13:30 •
Researching the arms lobby
15:15 •
Breaking out of the silos – can we?
17:00 •
Labour roundtable: Let’s talk about work!
C3.04
09:30 •
How to bring structure to unstructured documents without coding
11:15 •
Spreadsheets: the basics
13:30 •
Spreadsheets: Advanced formulas
15:15 •
Summarising complex data with Pivot tables and merges
17:00 •
Joining tables in SQL
C3.05
17:00 •
How to follow the money and unpick offshore transactions
C3.11
09:30 •
Personalising the story: how to generate a 100-page website from one dataset using R
11:15 •
Introduction to R and RStudio
13:30 •
Scraping with R
15:15 •
Stats with R
17:00 •
OpenRefine for OSINT: how to automate your open source searches
C3.15
09:30 •
Building your first scrollytelling data visualization
11:15 •
A simple scraper using Python
13:30 •
Network analysis: make sense of all that data you have
15:15 •
Text Analysis in Python
17:00 •
GeekSpeak: Our favourite digital tools
Cafeteria
09:00 •
Coffee
10:45 •
Coffee break
12:30 •
Lunch
14:45 •
Coffee break
16:30 •
Break (cold drinks only)
TBA
14:00 •
Individual safety consultations 2
Sunday
, June 4
Aula 1
11:15 •
How to write the perfect grant application
Aula 2
12:45 •
Goodbye - see you next year!
C2.01
09:30 •
Urban journalism is the future! Connect with journalists from other cities to improve your research
11:15 •
Signal for beginners (introductory session)
C2.05
09:30 •
How to investigate public tenders?
11:15 •
Working your entire life, struggling as a pensioner
C2.07
09:30 •
Company ownership registries, an endangered species
11:15 •
FOI'ing Europe's suspicion machines
C2.15
09:30 •
Mapping street names: What do they tell us?
C2.28
09:30 •
Step by step: Digging into a multinational arms company
C3.11
09:30 •
Scraping at the speed of thought with TypeScript and Deno
11:15 •
How to analyse millions of tweets (or other text) using Python notebooks (and why you might not)
C3.15
11:15 •
Create a simple data web app in Python with Streamlit
Cafeteria
09:00 •
Coffee
10:45 •
Coffee break
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