France leads on food sustainability in Barilla Foundation/EIU study

France was named the most sustainable country world-wide for food, scoring highly in terms of nutritional balance and waste management. Italy came out top of the rankings of most sustainable agricultural systems world-wide. The second edition of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition’s Food Sustainability Index, compiled in collaboration with the Economist Intelligence Unit, was launched […]

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Robots take centre stage for Media Wise, in Germany

In 2016, Media Wise increased collaboration with econNEWSnetwork in Hamburg, tackling assignments in robotics and electronics that took us to Hanover, Munich and Hamburg. Our collaboration set out to create breaking news with compelling new data and findings. It led to widespread media coverage for clients that included the International Robotics Federation, which released data […]

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Healthcare / pharmaceutical assignments in multiple languages

Media Wise continues to work closely with the London-based medical spoken communications agency Lionsden, especially on medical communication and education assignments requiring tutors, trainers and facilitators able to work in languages other than English. During 2016 we completed assignments with Lionsden in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Dusseldorf, the London area, and Rome, working in English, […]

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SNV Netherlands celebrates 50 years, Media Wise moderates development debate

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, and Media Wise’s Emma Robson moderated its celebratory event at the Diligentia Theater in Den Haag at the beginning of October.The event looked back on the organisation’s 50-year evolution from a development aid volunteers agency run by the Dutch government, to in 2015 a self-financed development […]

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Media Wise moves to new Amsterdam location

We’ve moved! Our new office is 10 minutes north-west of  Amsterdam  at: Laan 22-24, 1151 AA Broek-in-Waterland. T: +31 20 403 8303 M: +31 655 146 437 From October 2015 we will be conducting  trainings and workshops at the Broekerhuis, a stately monument in the village.    We look forward to welcoming you in Broek-in-Waterland.     […]

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Media Wise trains EU food security spokespersons

In June, a team of trainers from Media Wise trained 26 EU food security spokespersons in handling food issues and crises. The training was held under the auspices of the Parma, Italy-based European Food Safety Agency, EFSA, and was aimed at providing the food security communications professionals with the tools they need for training their […]

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Media Wise quoted in Het Financiele Dagblad newspaper

The year 2015 got off to a good start for Media Wise, with an article in the Dutch financial daily Het Financiele Dagblad featuring advice on media interviews from Media Wise. The article was published on January 10, the Saturday edition, which has a readership of 185,000.   No Ordinary Conversation Companies have needed to show their […]

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Crisis communications in 7 languages in 6 countries in 3 weeks

Media Wise had a busy month in June. As part of a larger pan-European project, we were asked to provide crisis communications trainings for executives at a pharmaceuticals company, in six countries in seven languages over a three-week period. We travelled accordingly to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, rural Germany, rural France, Madrid, Milan and Paris and conducted […]

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Nutreco 2013 integrated annual report gets Media Wise help

Nutreco NV, the Dutch-based leading producer of animal feeds, called on Media Wise for assistance in putting together its annual report for 2013,  covering its sustainability and financial performance for the year. The report was finally completed in February 2014 and can be viewed here: 

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Media Wise provides medical conference facilitation services in European languages

Media Wise combines linguistic and journalistic skills with specialised healthcare knowledge to offer medical conference facilitation and other communications services, throughout Europe. For example in  October we sourced French, Spanish, German, Italian and English speakers, most of whom are former journalists, and provided communications support during delegate discussion groups. 

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