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 of international cooperation in the media field so to correct misrepresentations and stereotypes and to spread out reliable information.
Finally, the delegation has visited the recently inaugurated (April 2009) News Centre of the Syrian TV, 300 sq meters hosting high-equipped editorial, control and graphic rooms, and studios.
The meeting has also been the occasion to carry on the organisation of the 2009 edition of the ASBU-COPEAM training session on new TV formats conception and production - "Making TVformats" - that the two associations have been jointly organising since 2005. This year, the focus of this workshop - that will be held form the 15th to the 19th November 2009, in Damascus - is on the writing of a new edutainment TV programme addressed to young people.
Read the "Making TV formats" programme(EN) (AR)
Thanks to the practical teamwork carried out under the coordination of Mr. Paolo Taggi and with the support of an expert from Syrian television, the group of participants of the 2009 edition of the “Making TV formats” training session succeeded in identifying a shared idea of a new TV format.
During the course, the group began the reflection and the development work on the idea that will be concluded in the next months, in order to elaborate a complete descriptive sheet for the format production to present to broadcaster members of COPEAM and ASBU on the occasion of Paris Conference.
The countries involved in the session were Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
