A COPEAM-UNESCO partnership for the journalism training


COPEAM project “South-Mediterranean public TV journalism training needs – survey and workshop” has been selected by the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) of UNESCO and aims at reinforcing the capacity of media and of the training centres focused on journalism and audiovisual communication.

The objective of COPEAM project is to contribute to the conception of an adequate journalism training strategy mainly based on the information sharing between the media professionals and the representatives of the training centres in the field of journalism and of the audiovisual communication in…

The format box


On the occasion of its 17th annual Conference in Paris, COPEAM presented the Arabic version of the book « The format Box » in the author's presence, the Italian renowned TV expert and programmes writer Paolo Taggi.
The book, published in collaboration with Rai, consists in the translation of La scatola dei format (Rai Eri, Roma 2009), an innovative work offering new writing methods of TV Formats.

Paolo Taggi explained the idea and the purpose of his book affirming that, starting from the analysis of the profound mechanisms of the worldwide most successful current formats,…

2009 COPEAM-ASBU training projects


Last 2-3 October, the 2009 meeting of the ASBU Training Centre Consultative Committee was held in Damascus. The Director General of ASBU, Mr. Salaheddine Maaoui, and the Director of the Centre, Mr. Taleb Kadi Amin, have welcomed some representatives of ASBU broadcaster members’ training departments and international partners such as COPEAM, EBU, CFI, and Deutsche Welle Akademie.
The delegation has been received by the Syrian Minister of Information, Dr. Mohsen Bilal, the Director General of the Syrian Radio and Television Corporation, Dr. Mumtaz Al-Shaykh, and the Directors of the TV and the Radio. The Minister has stressed the importance…

5TH Edition of COPEAM University


COPEAM University is an original one-week training format, whosemain goal is to provide young audio-visual professionals coming from COPEAM and ASBU broadcaster members with a unique opportunity to exchange professional and human experiences.

COPEAM University 2009 took place from 7th to 14th February in Taghit, a charming oasis of the Algerian Sahara, under the aegis of the Algerian Public Television (EPTV), and in partnership with CFI, the Algerian Radio, the Tunisian Radio and France Bleu Frequenza Mora.

70 participants, 13 countries of the Mediterranean and Gulf areas (Algeria, Croatia, Syria, Iraq, Egypt,…

TRAINING SEMINAR on TV FORMATS WRITING AND PRODUCTION – 2008


From the 14th to the 18th December, COPEAM and the ASBU Training Centre of Damascus will organise the 4th edition of the “TV formats writing and production” training session.

It will gather a restricted group of professionals coming from the Programmes Units of COPEAM and ASBU television members and will be assured, as for the past editions, by Mr. Paolo Taggi, Italian TV author and university professor.

The 5-day didactic plan includes both theoretical and practical modules. The session intends to apply a product-oriented approach, focused on the viewing and the analysis…

COPEAM presents to the Council of Europe the project for a new Master on « Global Journalism »


COPEAM has been invited by the Council of Europe (Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport General Direction – Coordination for the Intercultural Dialogue) to take part in the meeting of experts devoted to “Training of journalists in intercultural competencies”.

Held in Paris on the 10th June 2008, the meeting has gathered representatives of important European institutes for journalism training. Indeed, the meeting was organised with the aim of exchanging good practices and proposing projects in the field of Journalism training for diversity, one of the axis of the Council of Europe Campaign against the discriminations…

From training to broadcast: the University of COPEAM on the screen


One week to carry out, on the field, a 52’ TV documentary composed of 10 reportages focused on “Tourism and sustainable development, factors of connection between peoples” to be shot in the Algerian region of Bejaia: this is the goal reached during the last edition of COPEAM University (5-12 April 2008). The inter-cultural work teams have been guided by the trainers through the conception, the shooting and the editing of radio and TV products ready to be broadcast. The French and Arabic TV reportages, focused on the history, the languages, the environment, the economy, the legends and the heroes…

4th edition of COPEAM University


The 4th edition of COPEAM University took place in Bejaia (Algeria), from the 5th to the 12th April 2008, under the aegis of EPTV, in collaboration with CFI and with the participation of France Bleu Frequenza Mora and Radio Doualiya. This year, the President of the Algerian Republic has granted his High Patronage to the action that was also supported by the Algerian Ministry of Communication. The 90 participants, coming from 16 different countries, were part in the work of the 14 trans-national and intercultural radio and TV teams, whose assignment was that of producing reportages on the topic: «…

WOMEN AND NEW MEDIA To create a blog of blogs


Financed by the Euro-Mediterranean Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF) and by Canal France International, this training project has been led by CFI in partnership with COPEAM, the Bibliotheca

Alexandrina and the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient le Jour.

An innovative and trans-national action that opens up to the civil society, since it allows the access of young women working in the Media sector to the new technologies through the creation of a “blog of women”: a virtual place of intercultural dialogue, of research and of exchanges devoted to women, managed by women and referred…