Commissions

The Cinema/Festival/Culture Commission activity is aimed at favouring the production and the circulation of the audiovisual works in the Mediterranean region.
The basic goal of this Commission is that of encouraging creativity, specially of young talents, through the networking of the main actors of the Euro-Mediterranean audiovisual market: producers, festivals, distributors, TV channels.
With a view to setting up an exchanging and supporting network in favour of the audiovisual and film Mediterranean festivals, a first

 professional meeting on the topic “Developing and sustaining your film festival“ was organised by COPEAM in 2014, together with ESAV Marrakech and with the support of the Euromed Audiovisual III programme of the European Union.

This Commission works in favour of a balanced presence of women and men in the media, and against stereotypes as for the gender representation in the content production.

It acts in synergy with the other Commissions or in partnership with international organisations such as UNESCO, in several domains: design and coordination of projects intended to promote gender equality in the media; conception of international communication campaigns and organisation of debates related to gender matters; support to monitoring and research in

the field of the female representativeness and representation in the Euro-Med audiovisual sector.

The Radio Commission is very dynamic in favouring cooperation in the radio sector, notably through its permanent action of networking the COPEAM member radios.
It coordinates international co-productions on 

topics of general interest, such as the latest series devoted to the “Mediterranean marine parks”, as well as regional-oriented magazines like Kantara, Mediterradio and MusicaMed, weekly programmes respectively on the Mediterranean and insular current affairs and on contemporary music of the Region.
Moreover, this Commission also endorses – through its members’ participation - important international initiatives, such as “The Binmen of

the Mediterranean”, through the media coverage of an annual cleaning operation of the coasts in the countries of the involved radios; or the World Radio Day promoted by UNESCO.

With the general aim of promoting the Mediterranean audiovisual product, COPEAM supports particularly the coproduction projects between the two Mediterranean shores.
This mission is entrusted to the TV Commission,

whose main activity consists in coordinating multilateral co-productions achieved thanks to the cooperation between the professionals from the involved TVs and to the elaboration of shared working methodologies.
Among the concrete results of this Commission, the COPEAM-ASBU coproduced documentary series Inter-Rives, at its fourth edition devoted to “Sports without borders” and Joussour, a 

collection of 12 docu-mags co-funded by the EU and dealing with the environmental best practices in the cross-border maritime Mediterranean regions.

The Training Commission is devoted to the organisation of multilateral activities addressed to the professionals from COPEAM broadcasting members.
Journalism is the main domain around which the
various projects are developed. An action plan has been launched in the field of cultural journalism with the aim of reinforcing the news professionals’ capacities in covering cultural events and issues.
Starting from 2013, COPEAM and TRT have been organising an annual regional forum devoted to training strategies planning and implementation in the Mediterranean radio and
TV public broadcasters, addressed to training and HR departments’ executives.
Finally, several initiatives have been carried out complementarily to other COPEAM Commissions, such as Audiovisual Heritage and Cinema/Festival/Culture.