UC Santa Barbara + ieiMedia Berlin grants
Save when you join The Berlin Project.
Students and recent alumni of University of California Santa Barbara who join our Berlin project will receive an automatic ieiMedia tuition grant for $300 — and we’ll waive your application fee!
The grant is contingent upon available capacity to enroll the student in the project.
FAST FACTS
DATES: June 19 – July 11, 2027
GENERAL LOCATION: Berlin, Germany
ENROLLMENT CAPACITY: 16
FOCUS: Multiplatform feature journalism, (writing, photography, video, social media)
PROJECT COST: $5,495 + airfare
ACADEMIC CREDIT: Optional three units, $450
UCSB's Professional Writing Minor
The Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara accepts ieiMedia’s Berlin Project, led by former faculty member Nomi Morris, as one of the three upper-division prerequisite courses for the Professional Writing Minor.
Students may complete this international reporting course after their first, second or third year.
UCSB students do not need to pay for additional credit via ieiMedia to apply this course toward the Professional Writing Minor — whether the journalism track or any other. Rather, a waiver form is completed at the time of matriculation, when graduating with the minor. However, if a UCSB student would like to use this course as a substitute elective toward their major, they must order and pay for the transfer credits. Please contact Berlin program director Nomi Morris with additional questions.
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