Training

Tunis, 27-28 September 2011 The 7th meeting of the ASBU-TC Strategic Training Committee took place in Tunis last September. Mr. Maaoui, ASBU Director General, and Mr. Qadi Amin, ASBU Training Centre Director, opened the meeting and evaluated the 2011 training programme. Concerning the next year agenda, different guidelines have been set such as the development of extraterritorial and sub-regional training courses; the strengthening of the training activities through MENOS network for the setting up of Distance Training Interactive courses; the cooperation with the international organisations, such as COPEAM, EBU and CFI, besides all attending the meeting. Starting from the results…

Digital revolution, Internet, interactivity, DTT, social media: nowadays the media landscape is experiencing changes that make journalists question their role in this new multimedia environment. The training project “Ulysse 2.0 – network, network journalism and Internet”, developed by Canal France International, COPEAM, Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille and the Moroccan channel Soread – 2M, intended to address this challenge. 11 young journalists from 2M/Morocco, EPTV and EPRS/Algeria, Nawaat.org/Tunisia, JRTV/Jordan, PBC/Palestinian Territories, TRT/Turkey, SRR/Romania and HRT/Croatia, participated in “Ulysse 2.0” that was structured into two steps. The Montpellier workshop (28 Feb. – 5 March 2011) was devoted to the presentation,…

On the occasion of its 17th annual Conference in Paris, COPEAM presented the Arabic version of the book « The format Box » in the author's presence, the Italian renowned TV expert and programmes writer Paolo Taggi.
The book, published in collaboration with Rai, consists in the translation of La scatola dei format (Rai Eri, Roma 2009), an innovative work offering new writing methods of TV Formats.

Paolo Taggi explained the idea and the purpose of his book affirming that, starting from the analysis of the profound mechanisms of the worldwide most successful current formats,…

Last 2-3 October, the 2009 meeting of the ASBU Training Centre Consultative Committee was held in Damascus. The Director General of ASBU, Mr. Salaheddine Maaoui, and the Director of the Centre, Mr. Taleb Kadi Amin, have welcomed some representatives of ASBU broadcaster members’ training departments and international partners such as COPEAM, EBU, CFI, and Deutsche Welle Akademie.
The delegation has been received by the Syrian Minister of Information, Dr. Mohsen Bilal, the Director General of the Syrian Radio and Television Corporation, Dr. Mumtaz Al-Shaykh, and the Directors of the TV and the Radio. The Minister has stressed the importance…

From the 14th to the 18th December, COPEAM and the ASBU Training Centre of Damascus will organise the 4th edition of the “TV formats writing and production” training session.

It will gather a restricted group of professionals coming from the Programmes Units of COPEAM and ASBU television members and will be assured, as for the past editions, by Mr. Paolo Taggi, Italian TV author and university professor.

The 5-day didactic plan includes both theoretical and practical modules. The session intends to apply a product-oriented approach, focused on the viewing and the analysis…

COPEAM has been invited by the Council of Europe (Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport General Direction – Coordination for the Intercultural Dialogue) to take part in the meeting of experts devoted to “Training of journalists in intercultural competencies”.

Held in Paris on the 10th June 2008, the meeting has gathered representatives of important European institutes for journalism training. Indeed, the meeting was organised with the aim of exchanging good practices and proposing projects in the field of Journalism training for diversity, one of the axis of the Council of Europe Campaign against the discriminations…