Current and future challenges relating to cross-border cooperation in the Mediterranean will be the main focus of the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme in the Mediterranean (ENPI CBCMed) mid-term Conference, which is set to take place on 17 and 18 July in Rome.
Med-Mem “Sharing our Mediterranean audiovisual heritage”. The largest video library of Mediterranean online archives
With some 4000 audiovisual documents available to the public free of charge, Med-Mem – co funded by the European Union as part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme – is the largest online video archive library devoted to the historic, cultural and tourism heritage of the Mediterranean.
In preparation of the Mediterranean Forum, taking place in Marseille from 4 to 7 April 2013, the Anna Lindh Foundation organised a meeting in Barcelona (Spain) on the 1st and 2nd March. More than 70 journalists, professionals and civil society representatives gathered in the setting of the Palau de Pedralbes to discuss issues concerning the changes in the media sector.
The goal of the event was to elaborate new and innovative strategies and practices, to guarantee press freedom and the role of journalists in reporting the ongoing events, notably the consequences of the Arab Spring in…
(ANSAmed) – BEIRUT, May 17 – The development of Lebanon's participation in the activities of the Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM) was the object of a meeting in Beirut between the Secretary General of the Association, Pier Luigi Malesani, and the Information Minister, Walid Daouk.
"Lebanon is very important for us, especially considering the difficult period this country is facing" due to the crisis in Syria, Malesani told ANSA. He also visited the studios of the public television Télé Liban, the first television channel founded, in 1959, in the Middle East.
The unannounced shutting down of the public audiovisual group ERT by the Greek government is a dangerous precedent in the history of our modern democracies. With its extreme features, the Greek case reveals a growing trend to putting into question public broadcasters in many Euro-Mediterranean countries. Further to economic difficulties, the public service is more and more deemed as a simple budget line to be adjusted, regardless of its civic and democratic role.
Further to this situation, we, professionals of the audiovisual sector, solemnly protest against ERT shutting down and strongly reaffirm the necessity to defend…
The JOUSSOUR docu-mag “Blasted flies in the Jordan Valley” – realized by JRTV with RAI executive production – has been shown in avant-première in Valencia, in the framework of the 2013 European Cooperation Days. The projection was introduced by JOUSSOUR head of project, Paola Parri from COPEAM, who highlighted the main features of this cross-border coproduction co-funded by the EU (ENPI – CBCMED Programme).
The 1st meeting of the experts group in the field of television and on demand audiovisual services was held in Tunis, on 23-24 September 2013. The experts from the programme partner networks – ASBU, COPEAM and EBU – adopted conclusions favorable to the creation of a South-Mediterranean Audiovisual Observatory which would collect and make available data on TV and on demand audiovisual services of the Region.
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Reports on Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon Euromed Audiovisual III
On Friday 15 November, at Montecitorio Palace in Rome, the President of COPEAM, Mr Mathieu Gallet, will present the Association’s mission, objectives and flagship projects at a hearing before the Cultural Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.
The hearing will be opened by Ms Marina Sereni, Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Ms Emma Bonino, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Claudio Cortese, Vice-Secretary General of the UfM, Mr André Azoulay, President of the Anna Lindh Foundation and Mr Khalid Chaouki, President of the Committee and the promoter of the…
COPEAM – The Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators – has just joined the Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory. The membership of COPEAM in the Observatory’s Advisory Committee was approved by the Observatory’s Executive Council meeting which took place in Strasbourg on the 7th of November.
