Cairo, 23rd, June 2010
The launch of the Mediterranean TV channel project, the promising results of the cooperation between COPEAM and ASBU (Arab States Broadcasting Union): two main topics in the COPEAM Secretary General speech at the opening of the 43rd ordinary session of the Council of the Arab Information Ministers.

Many important topics related to the common Arab media action were handled in the debates of the 43rd ordinary session of the Council of the Arab Information Ministers organized in Cairo, on 23rd June 2010.

The Secretary General of the Arab League, Mr….

Paris, 8 – 11 April 2010

“The Mediterranean Audiovisual Stake”

The 17th Annual Conference of COPEAM, organized in collaboration with INA (National Audiovisual Institute) and under the High Patronage of Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, was focused on the theme “The Mediterranean Audiovisual Stake”. A stake embodied in a series of concrete and ambitious projects aiming at drawing the Mediterranean audiovisual landscape. This edition was an opportunity to assess the development of the 10 projects adopted by the General Assembly of Cairo, in 2009, which gained the consensus of the professionals of both the Mediterranean sides, as…

“Diversity for Life” is a global campaign coordinated by Bioversity International to inspire a new appreciation of agricultural biodiversity and to inspire people to become Guardians of Diversityby celebrating the unsung contributions of individual farmers, scientists and others to conserving the diversity of plants and animals that are so critical to food security.

Diversity for Life will culminate in 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, with a wide range of activities targeting policymakers, schools and the media.

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In the framework of “La Settimana della Biodiversità” – the weeklong celebration of biodiversity in music, video and…

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COPEAM Secretary General took part in the session “Making climate knowledge accessible: Networks and available resources” of the "Broadcast & Climate Change" UNESCOConference.

The session was focused on the opportunities that international partnerships and exchanges can create for broadcasters to improve their capacity of delivering information about climate and environment. Participants presented their experience in this area and outlined the possibility of sharing relevant contacts, knowledge, and rights free content on climate change.

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COPEAM Secretary General took part in the session “Making climate knowledge accessible: Networks and available resources” of the "Broadcast & Climate Change" UNESCOConference.

The session was focused on the opportunities that international partnerships and exchanges can create for broadcasters to improve their capacity of delivering information about climate and environment. Participants presented their experience in this area and outlined the possibility of sharing relevant contacts, knowledge, and rights free content on climate change.

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Final resolution addressed to the Euro-Mediterranean Heads of State and Government Cairo (Egypt) – 19 April 2009

We, members of the Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM), which includes the great majority of the Mediterranean audiovisual professionals as well as experts and eminent personalities from the cultural and media world, share the ambition to consolidate and deepen the exchanges between the States and the peoples of the Mediterranean basin.

We support the determination of the Heads of State and Government to convey the aspirations of the peoples who share the…

EuroMed-news

One philosophy « Informing people in the southern Mediterranean countries about the initiatives supported by the European Union to generate prosperity in its neighbouring regions, all underpinned by the existing cultural dialogue between the two shores.» This is the mission of the EuroMed-News consortium. One project Bringing together international organisations ASBU, COPEAM and EBU, and public broadcasters EPTV in Algeria, France Télévisions, JRTV in Jordan, ORTAS in Syria, SNRT in Morocco and TéléLiban in Lebanon, the EuroMed-News Consortium aims to: – inform the general public about the Euro-Mediterranean partnership; – facilitate the coverage and broadcasting of current Euro-Mediterranean affairs by…

Med-Mem : Audiovisual Mediterranean Memories

Co-funded at 68% bythe European Commission in response to EUROMED Heritage IV Programme, Med-Mem project, led by INA – French National Audiovisual Institute – consists in the setting up of an Internet site aimed at promoting the heritage of the Euro-Mediterranean area through the on line edition of editorialized audiovisual archives from the public televisions of the Region.   http://www.euromedheritage.net  

After 4 years of common work and following the two launch events of the website www.medmem.eu that took place in Marseille in October 2012 and in Rabat in…

The Paris Summit that, on the 13th July, has gathered 43 Euro-Mediterranean Heads of State and Government to launch the Union for the Mediterranean, has been closed with the adoption of a joint Declaration: it fixes the common future main targets and areas of intervention in the Mediterranean region. De-pollution, maritime and land highways, civil protection, alternative energies, higher education and research, business development represent the pillars on which setting up a urgent joint work strategy. As far as the socio-cultural domain is concerned, also thanks to the action carried out by COPEAM in the previous months and concluded with…