CDSU: Recommendations for a new financial mechanism to support the production and co-production in the Mediterranean area.
One of the achievements of the Capacity Building Support Unit (CDSU) of the EU programme Euromed Audiovisual III is the setting up of a Working Group on financing. This is a Think Thank gathering Southern Mediterranean actors on a project for a new financial mechanism aimed at strengthening regional co-productions in the Southern Mediterranean area. The first meeting of the Group was held in Cannes in 2012 and established the following axis: working at a mechanism supporting projects over the entire cycle of production, writing and distribution on all screens; giving priority to works oriented toward all publics; and proposing…
Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award 2013
COPEAM is media partner of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Mediterranean Journalist Award 2013 edition.
Journalists from the 42 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean are invited to submit their works on cross-cultural reporting until next 30th of June to take part in the 7th edition of the competition. The winners will be announced during the awarding ceremony that will take place in London, in October 2013.
COPEAM at… Sunny Side of the Doc
In the framework of the Sunny Side of the Doc, and in particular of the Euromed Audiovisual III Financing Working Group meeting, COPEAM will illustrate its multilateral coproduction formula by presenting Inter-Rives and Joussour projects, as well as the experience of Terramed Plus as example of shared web platform of Mediterranean audiovisuals works.
ERT – Greece: Once public televisions have been brought into question, let’s defend pluralism and cultural diversity
The unannounced shutting down of the public audiovisual group ERT by the Greek government is a dangerous precedent in the history of our modern democracies. With its extreme features, the Greek case reveals a growing trend to putting into question public broadcasters in many Euro-Mediterranean countries. Further to economic difficulties, the public service is more and more deemed as a simple budget line to be adjusted, regardless of its civic and democratic role.
Further to this situation, we, professionals of the audiovisual sector, solemnly protest against ERT shutting down and strongly reaffirm the necessity to defend…
COPEAM rallies to defend public service media in Greece
Press Release
The Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM) – also on behalf of its members, more than 100 audiovisual operators from 25 countries of the two Mediterranean shores – expresses its strong concern and complete solidarity to the Greek public television following the decision to abruptly shut down ERT, COPEAM funding member, in 1996 in Cairo.
Since many years, COPEAM warns about the threats affecting the audiovisual public service in the Mediterranean area: issues pertaining to financial resources, managerial stability, tensions with political powers, increased competition with new actors, both traditional and…
Tirana: UNESCO-COPEAM second seminar on gender mainstreaming
On 27-28 May, the second seminar on the adaptation of UNESCO Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM) took place in Tirana. Organized by COPEAM and hosted by the Albanian public broadcaster – RTSH, the workshop focused on the female presence and role within the organization. A group of TV and radio professionals worked on a critical analysis of the GSIM and adapted them to the RTSH context to carry out an evaluation of internal policies and practices on gender equality. As a result of this activity, the working group will elaborate proposals and recommendations aiming to improve the critical situations identified…
The Binmen of the Med: Coastal cleaning operation
On 25th May 2013, upon Algerian Radio (ENRS) initiative, COPEAM (Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators) Radio Commission organised the first edition of The Binmen of the Med: a Euro-Mediterranean media and ecological event aimed at mobilizing volunteers from 4 countries of the region (Croatia, Romania, France and Algeria), to participate in a simultaneous cleaning operation of their coasts.
The Croatian public radio (HRT), the Romanian radio (Radio Constanta), the whole France Bleu Sud Méditerranée network and France Bleu RCFM(Corse) as well as the Algerian radio (ENRS) set up, with the support of…
Lebanon: meeting between COPEAM Secretary General and the Information Minister
(ANSAmed) – BEIRUT, May 17 – The development of Lebanon's participation in the activities of the Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM) was the object of a meeting in Beirut between the Secretary General of the Association, Pier Luigi Malesani, and the Information Minister, Walid Daouk.
"Lebanon is very important for us, especially considering the difficult period this country is facing" due to the crisis in Syria, Malesani told ANSA. He also visited the studios of the public television Télé Liban, the first television channel founded, in 1959, in the Middle East.
Call for entries PLURAL+ 2013: deadline June 30th
PLURAL+ 2013
Following the success of the last editions, COPEAM supports the 2013 PLURAL+ Video Festival. organised by UNAOC and IOM in cooperation with a wide number of international partners.
THE COMPETITION
By 30 June 2013, young people aged between 9 and 25 are invited to submit short videos expressing their experiences and thoughts on migration, diversity, social inclusion, identity, as well as highlighting realities and ideas for peaceful relations between cultures and religions.
THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
A prestigious international jury will award winners for each of the…