COPEAM joins MedMedia project in favour of gender equality in public media


COPEAM joined the project MedMedia, an EU funded action conducted by a consortium led by BBC Media Action, aiming at creating a favourable environment for media reform in the southern Mediterranean region, with a particular emphasis on legislation, regulation, programming, supporting strategies in the transition process of these media to a real public service mission.

In this framework, COPEAM is in charge of setting up a multilateral “peer-to-peer” exchange activity to strengthen the capacity of eight public broadcasters – EPTV and EPRS/Algeria ERTU/Egypt JRTV/Jordan PBC/Palestine Radio Tunisienne/Tunisia SNRT and 2M/Morocco Télé­Liban/Lebanon – in favour of gender equality…

3rd COPEAM-TRT Forum on training strategies


Ankara, 24-25 February 2015

COPEAM and TRT-Turkish Radio and TV Corporation have been organising since 2013 an annual regional meeting in Ankara, at TRT headquarters, devoted to training strategies planning and implementation in the Mediterranean radio and TV public broadcasters.

The meeting is addressed to the training and HR executives and is aimed at promoting regional networking among professionals, peer-to-peer exchanges, knowledge sharing and good practices dissemination in this sector.The 2015 edition of this 2-day seminar was focused on “Training needs assessment and training evaluation: Tools and Methods” and centred on case-studies’ analysis and concrete exchange of experiences among participants.
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Training session on cultural documentary at ERTU


Cairo, 8-13 February 2015

In the framework of the training sessions that ERTU – Egyptian Radio and Television Union is organising and hosting this year, COPEAM contributed to the first workshop on cultural documentary held in Cairo from the 8th to the 13th February 2015. Thanks also to the support of EBU, COPEAM provided an expert, Manuela Gasbarroni – journalist, film director and producer – and a tutor to train 24 film directors coming mainly from ERTU, but also from other public TVs of Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco. After an introductory overview about cultural documentary genre’s main…

Developing and sustaining your film festival


MEETING – TRAINING

8-9 December 2014 – ESAV Marrakech

On the 8 and 9 December in Marrakesh, COPEAM, in partnership with ESAV Marrakesh and with the support of the EU Programme Euromed Audiovisual III, organises a professional meeting on the topic “Developing and sustaining your film festival“. 
Developed in work, exchange and networking sessions, this meeting-training, addressed to the managers and organisers of Mediterranean festivals, deals with the main challenges and opportunities that events like these encounter nowadays. 

The workshop is led by experts from the audiovisual and festival sectors from both the North and the South of the…

“The media coverage of cultural events”


Malta, 29 September – 3 October

Thanks to the cooperation with the Maltese public radio&TV PBS, a 4-day training workshop on cultural journalism was organised in Malta, from the 29 September to the 3 October. The training was attended by 11 young English-speaking journalists from RTVSH/Albania, GPB/Georgia, RAI/Italy, PBS/Malta, PBC/Palestine, Radio Romania, TVR/Romania and TRT/Turkey.
Three experts from COPEAM network – France24, PBS, TRT – were appointed to this initiative to accompany the participants during the course in reporting the cultural events and topics preliminarily identified by PBS and assigned to three different working groups.

Towards a Libyan broadcasting public service


Rome, 19 February – 7 March 2014

COPEAM was the promoter of a training course for journalists and operators of the Libyan National Channel, organized in collaboration with the University of Rome La Sapienza and RAI-Radiotelevisione italiana. This initiative took place in Rome from 19 February to 7 March 2014, thanks to a funding from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During three weeks, 13 professionals from different regional stations of the Libyan broadcaster had the opportunity to deepen their skills and know-how related to the public service media sector.
The training days were…

2nd COPEAM Forum: Training– Media – Mediterranean


Following the success of the first edition, COPEAM – in collaboration with the Training Department of TRT-Turkish Radio and Television – organised in Ankara, on 17 and 18 March 2014, the second Forum on planning and implementing training strategies in the Mediterranean public broadcasters.
This annual regional meeting is addressed to the training and HR executives of COPEAM broadcaster members and is aimed at promoting networking among professionals, peer-to-peer exchanges, knowledge sharing and good practices dissemination in this sector.

The theme of this year being “Training: strategic lever of long-lasting performance”, some experts…

Ljubljana: 3rd UNESCO-COPEAM workshop on the promotion of gender equality


On 15 and 16 July, COPEAM organized in Ljubljana the third seminar on the adaptation of UNESCO Gender-sensitive Indicators for Media. This seminar is part of a larger project promoted by UNESCO on the integration of gender perspective in media policies and professional practices.

Hosted by RTVSLO, the meeting involved a dozen of professionals from different departments who analyzed, selected and adapted the most relevant indicators to the context of their organization.
The seminar was opened by Mr. Marko Filli, General Director of the Slovenian broadcaster, and was led by COPEAM with the support of Ms. Ziva Humer, researcher at…

Forum on training engineering in the Euro-Mediterranean broadcasters


Responding to the request issued from COPEAM Training Commission, the first Forum on training engineering in the Euro-Mediterranean broadcasters was held in Ankara (4-5 February 2013), in collaboration with the Training Department of TRT – Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. It was addressed to the training and human resources managers of COPEAM broadcaster members and to the media training organisations and institutes operating in the region: 13 countries were represented and 11 broadcasters sent delegates to attend this 2-day seminar. Such initiative was organised with the aim of reinforcing the skills of broadcasters’ human resources management in developing training strategies…