Programme “The waves for the Mediterranean”

“The waves for the Mediterranean" radio cooperation project, that started in December 2009, brings together six partners: the Tunisian Radio as project leader, Radio France (France Bleu Frequenza Mora), ENRS (Algeria), SNRT (Morocco), ESAV (School of Visual Arts in Marrakech - Morocco) and COPEAM as coordinator. Presented in the framework of the Call for proposals for programs ALF/CFP/2009/LTP/146 of the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation – it won 49% funding of its total value. It aims at developing, strengthening and perpetuating specifically Euro-Mediterranean radio co-productions and at supporting mobility for the sector’s young professionals. This will be done on the one hand, through supporting contents of both Kantara radio program and its development and two radio series to be co-produced by members of COPEAM Radio Commission on shared themes promoting dialogue in the Euromed region; on the other hand, through actions aimed at encouraging radio professionals’ work – journalists, producers - and at favouring their mobility by the organization of eight training/co-production workshops hosted by partners: four on the two radio series and four on Kantara, in the perspective of an evolution of this program in a weekly news magazine on the Mediterranean. All this is the result of the work and of the will of the partners to support a shared and valuable Mediterranean radio activity. In particular, it was reached thanks to the efforts of our Radio Commission members, of its Vice-presidency and its Presidency (Radio France / France Bleu Frequenza Mora), who acted as executive producer for the first two Mediterranean co-productions (Portraits of Footballers, The Mythical harbours of the Mediterranean) and Kantara. HIGHLIGHT Closing workshop of the Waves for the Mediterranean programme Fes, June 2011 The journalists who are co-producing Kantara in the framework of the Waves for the Mediterranean programme gathered in Fes for their final workshop and a first assessment of the new format. This workshop was the last planned in the mentioned programme, co-funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation. Upon the invitation of the Fes local radio of SNRT (Morocco) – member of the WfM consortium – the producers of the Kantara magazine carried out a two-day workshop in order to assess the progress made since the beginning of the programme and suggest further developments, in the presence of the President of the Radio Commission, Mr. Hervé de Haro. Alongside this work, they recorded a special episode of Kantara dedicated to the city of Fes and the Sacred Music Festival that was taking place in the city during the same dates. As of today and thanks to the support of the WfM programme, Kantara is co-produced by EPRS (Algeria), ERTU (Egypt), Radio France/France Bleu Frequenza Mora, RTCI (Tunisia), RTVE (Spain) and SNRT (Morocco.