EPTV Headquarters

The workshop's opening was attended by the director-general of Algerian Television, Tewfik Khelladi, the secretary general of the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM) Pier Luigi Malesani, and other representatives from partner television channels supporting the project.
Mr. Khelladi explained that "This flagship project aims to generate, expand and maintain an audience in order to give more visibility to audiovisual products on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea". While affirming his hope that new links, new conquests, and other progresses will be made starting from the knowledge piled on in these years of common work, Mr. Khelladi called on COPEAM to act with "force" to "reduce the gap between the media on both sides of the Mediterranean and increase exchanges on the basis of fairness and mutual respect".

Participants highlighted technical challenges to the project's development, focusing on the translation of subtitles and metadata from the video catalogue by a team of technicians and translators at Algeria's EPTV. Two experts in the creation and development of VOD platforms – Valerio Caruso, project director at the Euromed Audiovisual III programme's monitoring unit and Tareq Abu-Lughod who created Arabic platform Istikana.com – kick-started reflection on possible future directions for the project's video-on-demand platform terramedplus.tv.

Bruno Iovenitti (RaiNews), Terramed Plus project leader, presented to the journalists the main aspects of the project, and notably the web platform. "Terramed Plus is a very positive project that should be expanded to the largest possible number of partners" concluded Pier Luigi Malesani, Secretary General of COPEAM.