Preserving biodiversity – A new webinar for journalists about environmental issues
30 November 2022
COPEAM and its partner ICO Solutions continue to support the work of journalists in reporting about environmental and climate related issues. On November 30, a webinar was co-organized around biodiversity challenges in view of the 2022 U.N. Biodiversity Conference (COP15), taking place in Canada in December. The whole COPEAM network of journalists – and beyond – interested in these topics were invited to the webinar and had the possibility to interact with experts and scientists and share experiences and practices on these issues.
The webinar recorded 43 registrations from 18 different nationalities, including…
COPEAM & the Union for the Mediterranean
The cooperation links with this intergovernmental body have been further consolidated in the recent months.
In the framework of the 5th High-Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean, held in Madrid on 26 and 27 October, COPEAM contributed to the panel devoted to “Media and Gender Equality”, through the participation of experts from our network, who – together with other outstanding speakers – critically questioned the role of the media industry in creating gender values and the misrepresentation of women in media content.
On that occasion, the Ministers in charge of gender equality…
COPEAM at the 74th edition of Rai’s Prix Italia
Bari, 3-8 October 2022
COPEAM took part in the 74th edition of Rai’s Prix Italia in Bari (Italy). The Secretary General and the Deputy Secretary General were Jury members respectively of the Prix Italia-Ifad-Copeam Special Prize and of the one in honour of the President of the Italian Republic.
The Juries of the Special Prizes[1] awarded the following works:
Sarayaku (France Télévisions, France), winner of the PRIX ITALIA-IFAD-COPEAM special prize.
The Jury particularly appreciated the storytelling of this film that reflects the life of a local community that could…
“À Première Vue” Prize
As part of the support action for young Mediterranean directors “À Première Vue” – promoted by COPEAM with ALBA, ESAC, ESAVM cinema schools and the Uninettuno University – a Prize for students’ best short-film was launched thanks to the support of TV5Monde.
An international jury has been set up:
- Elisabeth Cestor (Mucem)
- Nicolas Feodoroff (FIDMarseille)
- Naïma Yahi (Historian)
- Manuela Rima (Rai Cinema)
- Kais Zaied (Naas Network)
For this first edition, each of the three schools has selected 5 short films made during the 2020-2021 academic year, with 15 total films in competition. Among these works, the jury agreed…
COPEAM joins IFAD in the framework of the Sicilymovie – Agrigento Film Festival
28-31 July 2021 – Valley of the Temples of Agrigento (Italy)
The Sicilymovie – Festival del cinema di Agrigento (Sicily) is a festival of short films, documentaries, video clips and animation shorts, that will take place from 28 to 31 July in the extraordinary archaeological park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
The festival’s main partner is the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), member of COPEAM.
The call for entries is open to 6 different categories, among which the IFAD-COPEAM joint Award for the “Thematic documentary”: works that look at food…
ICO Solutions – #WEBINAIRE: “Media and environment: witnessing the challenges and solutions in the Mediterranean”
As part of the ICO Solutions’ event dedicated to the major issues related to islands, coasts and oceans preservation, the organizers and COPEAM offered a unique webinar for Mediterranean journalists, in order to discuss the links between the media and environmental actors. A dialogue involving 12 COPEAM’s broadcasters and 9 additional organizations to strengthen knowledge, skills and mutual networks related to challenges of biodiversity and island resilience, ecological restoration, relationship between biodiversity and industry, or even environmental journalism practices.
Webinar to be found at this address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbE4Rhbyz0
Programme :
- Session 1: Resilience and island biodiversity
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WEBINAR – Media and Environment: sharing the challenges and solutions in the Mediterranean
March 4, 2021 (3:30 pm – 5:30 pm UTC+1)
COPEAM and the organizers of ICO Solutions join forces around a webinar for journalists from the Mediterranean area to exchange around the links between the media and environmental actors. A dialogue to strengthen mutual knowledge, skills and networks to deal with islands’ resilience and biodiversity, ecological restauration, business and environmental journalism practices.
An inter-professional exchange to familiarize and consolidate knowledge with the aim of witnessing environmental issues and solutions in the Mediterranean.
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wnKPhorhSRuhsF5oI4tufg
Discovering the Mediterranean young filmmakers: “A première vue”
“A première vue” project, devoted to the best students’ works produced by ALBA/Beirut, ESAC/Tunis and ESAV/Marrakech cinema schools, and promoted by COPEAM and Uninettuno, continues its public projections.
In the framework of the 2020 Prix Italia festival, organised by RAI, a selection of fiction and animation short films was screened on the 25 September, at the MAXXI Museum in Rome and in streaming.
With the view to further reinforce this project, a development plan of APV was presented during COPEAM Training Commission (8 October), aiming to: reward excellence with a TV5MONDE/COPEAM Prize; apply a…
COPEAM in Conversano for the 15th edition of “Lector in Fabula” Festival
Conversano, 24-29 September 2019
The 15th edition of the European Cultural Festival Lector in Fabula was organized in Conversano (Apulia, Italy), from 24 to 29 September, by the Giuseppe di Vagno Foundation (http://www.lectorinfabula.eu/programma19).
In connection with the topic of this edition – “The Earth seen from the Moon” – COPEAM was present with “Mediterradio”, a radio info programme dedicated to the big islands of Western Mediterranean – Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica – and an intercultural model promoting linguistic diversity through the use of Corse and Italian languages. This particular feature was deepened with the students…
