STRASBOURG: COPEAM joins the Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe. ROME: COPEAM presents its flagship projects to the Cultural Committee of the Union for the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

STRASBOURG: COPEAM successfully advocates that a specific reference to public service media remains among the new terms of reference and the action plan of the Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI).

BRUSSELS: European Parliament approves, among others, COPEAM amendment to the Green Paper "Unlocking the potential of creative and cultural industries", aimed at including in the ENPI 2011-2013 Regional Action Plan of the E.C. a budget line supporting the production and the distribution of audiovisual works in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

PARIS: 17th COPEAM annual Conference. Launch of the Call for the creation of a multilingual and multicultural channel and a Mediterranean Media Observatory. STRASBOURG: Ministers of the Council of Europe approve COPEAM request to become observer member of the Steering Committee on the Media and New Communication Services (CDMC) of CoE.

CAIRO: 15th COPEAM General Assembly. COPEAM launches its Strategic Action Plan: 10 projects aimed at structuring the Mediterranean audiovisual landscape.

MARSEILLE: Ministerial summit of the Union for the Mediterranean. In the summit conclusions, the EUROMED Ministers of Foreign Affairs welcome COPEAM initiatives, among which Terramed and Med-Mem. PARIS: Adoption of the UfM Declaration. The media and the information society are included among the priorities of the UfM agenda, further to the action led by COPEAM for the audiovisual sector promotion. BRUSSELS: COPEAM representatives are received by EUROMED Ambassadors. The hearing is intended to renew the EU EUROMED Audiovisual Programme and its extension to TV and radio sectors.

BARCELONA: 10th Anniversary of the EUROMED Partnership. COPEAM, with the support of its members, successfully promotes, through some national delegations, an amendment to the EU five-year Action Plan: the role of media for the intercultural dialogue is recognized; the EU commits to supports multi-cultural and multi-language satellite channels and portals.

NAPLES: 6th EUROMED Conference. COPEAM is mentioned in the meeting conclusions as a best practice in the field of media cooperation.

TUNIS: COPEAM launched its most ambitious project: the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean multicultural and multilingual satellite TV channel. The European Commission financed the EUROMED TV feasibility study carried out by COPEAM and launched, within the MEDA instrument, EUROMED Audiovisual: the first programme devoted to the Euro-Mediterranean audiovisual cooperation.

CAIRO: 63 organizations, 28 of which radio-TV broadcasters, formally founded COPEAM: an international, inter-professional non-profit Association.

BARCELONA: Conference of Barcelona. The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the 15 EU member States and the 12 Mediterranean countries gave rise to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EUROMED), known as Barcelona Process.

PALERMO: The Permanent Conference of the Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators was conceived as a coherent structure for cooperation and dialogue.

PALERMO: The idea of a Euro-Mediterranean audiovisual space was risen at the 1st Conference of the European, African and Mediterranean Televisions.