COPEAM AT THE E.U. MEETING “EUROPE IN VISION”
COPEAM has been invited to participate in a European Conference organised in Helsinki (Finland),
on 4th and 5th December, by the Finnish E.U. Presidency and the European Commission (DG
Communication): “EUROpe in VISION – Towards a European Public Sphere: EU, the Media and the New Technologies”. The Secretary General took part as panellist in one of the four main workshops (“New broadcasters, new audience?”) introducing to the E.C. a “threelevel communication strategy” proposal (divulgation, information, institutional).
The main objective of this meeting was to find out how the debate on Europe can be enhanced…
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Focused on the topic “The role of the media in the Mediterranean region”, the international meeting,
organised by Paralleli – Istituto EuroMediterraneo del Nord Ovest, has been held in Turin on the 24th November.
In a more and more globalised world,what role are the media playing in order to help to understand
the evolution, the changes occurring in our multicultural societies? Can they represent instrument
of dialogue, democratic growing and overcoming of stereotypes? Are they able to portray this complex identity? Many actors of the Euro-Mediterranean media panorama have gathered together
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COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN COPEAM AND THE ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION
COPEAM and the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures have formalized
a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at fostering their relationships within the framework of the EUROMED Partnership.
The agreement was signed by the Secretary General of COPEAM, Mrs. Alessandra Paradisi
and the Executive Director of ALF, Mr. Traugott Schöfthaler on last 23rd November, during
the Conference organized in Essen (Germany) by WDR, ZDF, France Télévisions and EBU and devoted to “Migration and Integration – Europe´s big challenge. What role do the media play?”
The agreement, whose operational period…
THE EUROMED CIVIL FORUM 2006
From the 4th to the 7th November the Euromed non-governmental Platform has organised, in cooperation with the Euromed Platform in Morocco, the 2006 Euromed Civil Forum, for the
first time held in the Southern shore of the Mediterranean, in Marrakech, thanks to the support of the E.C. and by Finland, in the frame of the EU Presidency.
COPEAM has been invited to take part in this international meeting, as representative body of the Euro-Mediterranean media sector. The aim of the meeting has been to set up an agenda for action and identify civil society actors’ needs…
CONFERENCE ON THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP Organised by the Arab League
On the 31st October 2006, the 5th edition of the meeting “The Euro-Mediterranean” devoted to
“The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: disillusions and hopes”, has been organised in Tunis by the
League of the Arab States.
Thanks to the kind invitation of Mr. Nourredine Hached, Vice-Secretary General of the Arab League, COPEAM, represented by its Secretary General, took part in the conference as speaker within the session devoted to “Living together in the Mediterranean: the man, the security and the civilisation”.
The involvement of COPEAM in such an important moment of reflection on the Euro-…
INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
“Il Mediterraneo alle soglie del Nuovo Millennio”: this is the title of the international forum organised by the Regione Lazio (Italy), in collaboration with UNIMED, on the 21st and 22nd of September, in Rome, in the framework of the project “Latium between Europe and the Mediterranean”.
The engagement of this regional authority starts from the intent, as explained by Pedrag Matvejevic, Head of the Scientific Committee, “to make Latium become a link between Europe and the Mediterranean basin, thus gaining an active and proactive role in an enlarged European society that is gradually welcoming cultural pluralism and offering…
CULTURAL WORKSHOP EUROPE – MEDITERRANEAN – GULF “Dialogue of Peoples and Cultures”
COPEAM took part in the first Conference of the Atelier Culturel Europe – Mediterranean – Gulf
“Dialogue of Peoples and Cultures”, held in Paris (Palais de l’Elysée) from 13th to 15th of September and opened by Mr. Jacques CHIRAC, President of the French Republic.
The meeting has been organised by the French Foreign Affairs Minister and the EUROMED NGOs’
Platform, in cooperation with the Anna Lindh Foundation.
The non-governmental character of this Atelier starts from the assumption that the civil societies are the key-factors of the social, cultural and political development of…
COPEAM, FOR A NEW TV WITHOUT FRONTIERS XII Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Cinema
COPEAM,during the XII Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Cinema,vis-à-vis the excellent parterre of professionals from the audiovisual sector and personalities of the international political world, launched to Europe the challenge for new “televisions without frontiers” which look at the Mediterranean panorama: broadcasting quotas or new national production incentives for the promotion of the audiovisual works realized in the Euro- Mediterranean area. A proposal that aims at a concrete action of support to the audiovisual industry, in the framework of the revision of the “TV without Frontiers” Directive of the European Union and of the “Convention on Transfrontier television” of the Council of…
THE ASIA MEDIA SUMMIT The inter-regional cooperation
In May, the AIBD (Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development) organized the 2006 edition
of the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). This annual international conference was attended by 400 participants including governmental representatives, media professionals, academic representatives, news and programme managers from across Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America. In the perspective of a growing cooperation, the AIDB invited COPEAM to join the reflection process and to present a contribution in the work session devoted to the topic “Regional contents for a global audience: a growing challenge? – Promoting the Millennium Development Goals:…