Europe Day: young Europeans have a new language, the “babelmix”

European, young and participatory. This is the new face of Cafebabel.com. The first and only European media published in no less than six language that targets the ?eurogeneration?, the 20 – 35 year old bracket disappointed with the more traditional European media that exists.

On Europe Day, Cafebabel, one of Vitaeurope’s media partner, launches a brand new version of its portal: a web 2.0 exeperience thanks to the blogs of Erasmus students and cizient journalism. Cafebabel.com is, in fact, a unique network of over 350 citizen journalists and 700 translators dispatched amidst 26 local teams in Europe. From Brussels to Vilnius via Seville and Istanbul, citizen journalists speak about politics, culture, and society as they see it. All writers, translators, local teams and bloggers are voluntary and part of the Eurogeneration that make up the public of the website: the 20 – 35 year old bracket disappointed with the more traditional European media that exists.

Created in 2001 by Erasmus students, cafebabel.com is an independent media edited by the Babel International association and counts with 300, 000 unique visitors per month, 70 European blog, 4000 subscribers to the community, 11 full time employees and 3 interns. As well as the six language versions available, the new cafebabel.com website has also enabled its audience to read in ?babelmix? – a technical innovation allowing all registered users (registration is free), to compose their own language cocktail and read cafebabel.com in the language they speak.

www.cafebabel.com