The Kantara team has just concluded a rich and exciting 2023-2024 radio season: 43 issues dedicated to news and culture from around the Mediterranean with a single objective: to continue informing and bringing together the Mediterranean in its diversity.

Indeed, it is in the name of this continuity that the programme celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, since when, in 1999, Pierre Mari (France Bleu RCFM) and Hanane Laimani (Chaine Inter Morocco) imagined and launched the utopia of a radio bridge between the shores of the Mediterranean.

Gradually, thanks to the support of COPEAM…

More than 50 professionals from 15 countries took part in two online training workshops on Inclusive Journalism, held in June as part of the EU-funded project “Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Journalism” (AD&IJ)* under the Erasmus + Small Scale programme.

The 1st workshop “Inclusive Journalism: a path to a better representation” involved journalists and editorial teams and focused on practical strategies and methods for a respectful and free from stereotypes information. Exploring the ethical and business value of DE&I and of inclusive communication, it addressed 4 main areas: ethnicity, disabilities, LGBT+ and gender, providing an overview…

The Arab Radio and TV Festival is considered as the oldest and most prestigious media, artistic, and technological event in the Arab world. Since its establishment in 1981, it has been one of the most significant events organized by the Arab States Broadcasting Union. It continues to receive growing interest with each edition, standing out as a prominent event that highlights ASBU diverse and multi-faceted annual activities, becoming a highly regarded event that attracts attention within the Arab region and beyond.

Objectives of the Festival :

• Contributing to the development and promotion of…

Finale deadline: Friday, May 31 2024!

• 43rd International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary;
• 36th International URTI Radio Grand Prix with the theme, “Radio: A century informing, entertaining and educating ” (Theme chosen by the 2024 World Radio Day & UNESCO, and celebrated on February 13th).

For those who have not yet registered their programmes: 

• The URTI competition is open free of charge to any TV channel/Radio station or cultural organisation/association/institution which devotes itself to the audiovisual media,
• URTI Grand Prix award: 500$ (five hundred dollars),
• Programmes should be entered in their original version,
• A script of each programme must be provided either in French or in English if the proposed version is not in one of these two languages,
• The files of your programmes will be sent via internet.

You can register your programmes by sending us back the enclosed entry form or directly:

• here for television
• here for…