Tropentag 2025:
Reconciling land system changes with planetary health
September 10 - 12, 2025 organised by University of Bonn / ZEF, Bonn, Germany
We are seeking student reporters
Be a student reporter at the Tropentag 2025
Tropentag, the conference on tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management, and rural development is an annual conference organised by ATSAF e.V. in collaboration with European
universities since 1999 (www.tropentag.de). Tropentag 2025 will be organised as a hybrid conference by University of Bonn / ZEF, Germany.
We will have an in-person conference, but all oral
presentation sessions will be live-streamed via an online conference platform. The Tropentag 2025 conference will summarize recent disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to address
“Reconciling land system changes with planetary health”. To
increase the outreach of the event, ATSAF e.V. sponsors a team of 12 student reporters to give an
account of the event.
The theme of Tropentag 2025 is Reconciling land system changes with planetary health
Tropentag 2025 addresses issues such as the urgently needed transformation in agriculture and food systems, agroecology, livestock management, food and nutrition sovereignty, forestry, sustainable water resources and fisheries, environmental conservation, socio-ecology, structural inequalities in the governance of natural resources based on gender, age, socio-economic status and other social categories, in the context of rural development, sustainable natural resources management, and poverty alleviation worldwide.
To increase the outreach of the event, ATSAF is looking for a team of student reporters to give an account of the event.
What does this mean for you?
As a student reporter, you will attend an online workshop before the conference and a 2-day-
workshop just before the conference in September 2025 on journalism & social media. Student
reporters will work in an interdisciplinary team of 12 international students who continuously
contribute to a multi-author blog with text and visual content from 10th - 12th September 2025 in
Bonn at the Tropentag.
In the blog and other media (e.g. instagram,
facebook,
YouTube) the student reporters will summarize
the discussions and report on recent trends, hot topics, or emerging issues during the conference. On
Sept 13th, 2025, a final seminar on “Feedback and the way forward to a professional career” will wrap up the
activities.
ATSAF e.V. will cover all travel costs (low emission transportation means are strongly suggested),
accommodation, and registration fee for the conferences. Furthermore, every student reporter will
receive a flat rate compensation of expenses of 150 Euro.
Who can apply?
The application is open to students affiliated to a European university. Applicants must be fluent in
English and should have a keen interest in the topic of the conference, interview and writing
techniques, and social media.
Please apply with a short CV outlining your experience in the relevant fields and a motivation letter
(maximum 1 page). Please explicitly state your level of skill in the use of visual media, social media,
writing for a wider public and/or digital photography or video recording in your application. For more
information, visit our website.
Please send your application in one (1) pdf file named 'your‐name‐studenreporter‐2024.pdf' to studentreporter@atsaf.de
Deadline for application is 1 July 2025.
Download this call for application: StudentReporters.pdf
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