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Tunis 29^thNovember 2010
Last 29^th November 2010, the closing Press Conference of Euromed-News was held in Tunis, at ASBU headquarters, with the participation of the project consortium members.
The representatives of France Télévisions (Project leader), COPEAM, ASBU and EBU, togehter with the representatives of some broadcaster partners of the project, expressed their satisfaction for the results achieved through this initiative: the expected objective of 300 news, 40 magazines and 9 documentaries - on the actions carried out by the EC in the ENPI Southern countries - to be produced, broadcast and exchanged was attained and even exceeded.
All participants underlined the crucial importance of experience made all along this action that, besides the concrete results which were reached, allowed the professionals of 9 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Egypt, France, Jordan, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria) to set up a mechanism of cooperation that will remain as a common asset after the end of the project.

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Closing press conference of Euromed-News Project.		EuroMed-news

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+<strong>One philosophy</strong>
+« 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.
+<strong>One project</strong>
+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 the southern broadcasters in accordance with their editorial freedom;
+- stimulate dialogue and mutual awareness between people living on both sides of the Mediterranean;
+- publicise the goals, methods and results of the European Neighbourhood Policy;
+- promote cultural diversity and gender equality;
+<strong>One team
+</strong>
+The EuroMed-News project is led by France Télévisions in partnership with the European Union, with COPEAM in charge of overall coordination. All editorial aspects are overseen by the ASBU and EBU, while Euro-Mediterranean news exchanges through ERN-Med are being coordinated by EPTV Algeria together with the Editor-in-Chief based in the ASBU and EBU. EuroMed-News features, current affairs programmes and documentaries will be produced by EPTV, ERTU, JRTV, ORTAS, SNRT and TéléLiban.
+<em>EUROMED-NEWS is a regional project financed by the European Commission in the framework of the Call for tender “Media Activities in the ENPI Countries”</em>
+<span style="color: #0000cd;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong> HIGHLIGHT</strong> </span></span>
+<strong>EUROMED NEWS : results and future</strong>
+On 31st December 2010 Euromed-News project officially ended. During 24 months, six public broadcasters of the southern shore of the Mediterranean worked closely together to produce 300 news, 40 magazines and 9 documentaries focused on the actions carried out by EU in ENPI/South countries. Beyond the ambitious quantitative goals, set by the project - which have been reached, and in some cases exceeded – Euromed-News has been a crucial step for the audiovisual sector in the region: for the first time, a continuous and effective cooperation has been established among the newsrooms involved in the project, which were able to work in synergy, using shared techniques and standards and respecting the editorial freedom of each one.
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+<td><em>News </em><em>production </em><em>objective </em></td>
+<td><em>Magazines </em><em>production </em><em>objective</em></td>
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- <em>Tunis </em><em>29<sup> <span>th</span> </sup>Novembe</em><em>r </em><em>2010</em><br />
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+As anticipated by Euromed-News consortium members on the occasion of the Press Conference in Tunis, the best practices acquired in the framework of the project will be the basis for new actions aimed at perpetuating the achieved goals.
+This will be done, in particular, through activities encouraging the transfer of expertise - circulation and exchange of information as well as the treatment of gender themes on television - addressed to professionals of COPEAM, EBU and ASBU member broadcasters.
+These same topics were approached during Euromed-News closing Press Conference, held in Rome on February 2011, organized by COPEAM in collaboration with the European Commission Representation in Italy and in media partnership with AGI, under the title "Euromed-News: Another Mediterranean is possible" .
+On this occasion, France Televisions, ASBU, EBU, COPEAM and the executive producer presented the objectives, results and prospects of this action, whose real and symbolic scope gains a even greater dimension considering the recent events occurring in the South of our Mediterranean.
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+<strong>Steering Committee and Press Conference<em>
+</em></strong><em>Beirut (Lebanon), 29th - 30th September 2009</em>
+On September 29th, Télé-Liban hosted in Beirut the 2nd Steering Committee of the Euromed-News project.At the presence of Ms. Chrystelle Lucas from the European Commission, and joined by a new television(ERTU/Egypt), the representatives of the partner organizations have established a mid-termassessment of the project after six months of common work, and have planned the next steps of activity.
+Following this meeting, a press conference - broadcast live by TV-Lebanon - was held at the Hotel Bristol with the participation of major Lebanese newspapers and correspondents of Arab and European media and different channels, as RAI and France24.
+<strong>
+Press revue:</strong>
+<a href="http:// www.copeam.org/UserFiles/ File/Press/12_ conf_presse_ Beyrouth_Orient_le_jour_01_ 10_2009.pdf">L'Orient le jour,1st October 2009</a>
+<a href="http:// www.copeam.org/UserFiles/ File/Press/12_ conf_presse_ Beyrouth_As_Safir_ 01_10_2009.pdf">As Safir, 1st October 2009</a>
+<a href="http:// www.copeam.org/UserFiles/ File/Press/12_ conf_presse_ Beyrouth_An_Nahar_ 01_10_2009.pdf">An Nahar, 1st October 2009</a>
+These two events have followed previous meetings between the partners as the last Steering Committee held in Rome June 22, 2009 and a week later, the first documentary workshop that allowed television information officers participating in the project to meet during 3 days at ASBU headquarters in Tunis, about sources research and methods of writing scenarios.
+On July 25, news coordinators that are members of the Regional Program ERN-Med met in Rabat (Morocco) thanks to SNRT invitation with the aim of strengthening the process of news exchange via satellite between Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya.
+For more info and to view Euromed-News products: <a href="http:// www.euromed-news.org/">http: //www.euromed- news.org/</a>
+<hr />
+<em><strong>Euromed-News Documentaries’ workshop
+</strong>Tunis, June 29th – July 1st 2009</em>
+On June 29th, Mr. Maaoui, Director General of ASBU, welcomed the teams from the Algerian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan and Syrian TVs in charge of the production of documentaries for the Euromed-News project.
+Five teams gathering the head of project, a director and documentary-maker from each broadcaster involved, along with the Euromed-News Executive Production and a team from COPEAM, met in Tunis at the ASBU’s headquarters. Three days of study and cooperation that allowed to settle the basis for the production of a “collection” of nine documentaries aimed at portraying the human face of the Mediterranean, by treating subjects about the EU Neighbourhood Policy.
+On day one, presentations about Europe, about ENP and a recall of Euromed-News’ goals allowed the participants to target their reflection and to identify the nine issues they will deal with. These topics were then submitted to the approval of the E.C., during a phone conference with Mrs Lucas who is in charge of the Programme. The participants had the occasion to describe to Mrs Lucas their idea and approach to the selected subjects and to ask the E.C. support in order to overcome the possible obstacles they could meet during the documentaries’ production.
+Once she validated almost all the projects proposed, Mrs Lucas insisted in recalling the importance of both the content and aesthetic quality of these documentaries, aimed at communicating in a concrete way the idea of the “Mediterranean” and that will possibly be proposed to the audiences of both Southern and Northern Mediterranean shores.
+The day after, 5 issues out of 9 were distributed between the present teams so that each one could start identifying the most effective angles of approach and the subjects directly linked with European projects that have been fulfilled or that are in progress:
+-the Syrian television will produce a documentary about the symbolic and revealing places of intercultural and inter-religious dialogue;
+-the Jordanian television will make a documentary about water that is a resource to be preserved;
+-the Moroccan TV is in charge of the economic issue by emphasising the processes of investment and of micro-credit in the Area;
+-the Lebanese television will deal with the preservation of the cultural patrimony;
+-lastly, the Algerian television chose to work on the migration flows and most particularly on illegal immigration inside the Euromed zone.
+The last day was devoted to the critical screening of programmes already produced by the teams outside the Euromed-News project, so to further fix the way of treating the topics and to establish the goals to be achieved both concerning contents and the quality of the planned items.
+This working session was enriched by the expert eye of Mr. Hichem Ben Amar, independent Tunisian producer-director that had attended the European training Eurodoc Med in the framework of the Euromed Audiovisual II programme. He shared his experience with the teams and participated in the discussions and debates that took place in such occasion.
+The workshop on documentaries ended on an useful intercultural dialogue on technical matters between professionals, and on the reciprocal sharing of the documentary-making practices.
+The five documentaries should be ready to be broadcast by October 2009. From then on, the production of the 4 remaining ones will be started.
+The 9 topics that have been selected are:
+. The water : a common natural resource
+. Alternative energies
+. Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue
+. Economy and investments in the Euromed region
+. Immigration
+. Safeguard and preservation of the Euro-Mediterranean cultural patrimony
+. Women
+. Youth mobility in the Euromed Region
+. Mediterranean sea cleanup
+<em><strong>Workshop of Euromed News magazines coproduction< /strong></em>
+<em>Algiers, June 13th – 19th, 2009</em>
+The Euromed News workshop on magazine intercultural co-production took place in Algiers from June 13thto June 19th 2009 with the participation of the editors in chief and journalists from four organizations members of the Consortium and subcontractors (EPTV – Algeria, JRTV – Jordan, ORTAS – Syria and TL – Lebanon). The participants have chosen twelve reportages among about twenty proposed topics. These twelve reportageswill appear in the four magazines at the rate of three reportages by issue. One magazine episode will be entirely dedicated to women. The workshop has been split in four sub-workshops, one for each magazine issue, that were run by the editors in chief andsupported by theeditors from EPTV. At the same time, a young graphic designer from the same organization was preparing the credits, the jingles and the music thatwill beopen and close themagazine. The presentations that introduce each reportage have been shot in Algiers and its surroundings. On Wednesday June 17th, the workshop participants have attended a video-conference organized at the headquarter of the European Union Delegation in Algiers with Miss Chrystelle Lucas from Brussels. They have discussed with her about the contents of the co-produced magazines and also about the working environment in the different countries and about the connections between the Delegations of these countries. The workshop ended on June 18th, when the participants have metMr. Abdelkader Lalmi,President of the EPTV. He has exhorted them to be professional in the fulfilment of their job of journalists, and more especially in the framework of the Euromed News project which is a precious opportunity to give visibility to the progress and the achievements that have been realized in the countries of the southern bank of the Mediterranean and to promote the intercultural dialogue with the neighbours of the northern bank in a spirit of mutual respect and tolerance.
+<em>Planning of the workshop of intercultural production and content of these four magazines</em>
+<strong>Magazine 1 Generalist</strong>
+Editor in chief : Rabab El Dahhak (ORTAS) - Newsreader : Djamila Lamouri (EPTV)
+Reportages :
+.Humanitarian helps to population in Gaza (JRTV)
+.Division of the city of Damascus into touristic districts (ORTAS)
+.Renovation of the de Cathedral of Notre-Dame-d'Afrique in Algiers (EPTV)
+<strong>Magazine 2 Generalist</strong>
+Editor in chief : Dina Ramadan (TL) – Newsreader : Dina Ramadan (TL)
+Reportages :
+.Renovation of a monastery in Syria (ORTAS) ·
+.Help to the hospital El Ahli in Galilee-Palestine (JRTV) ·
+.Micro-credit support to a rural woman for an exhibition of carpet weaving (EPTV)
+<strong>Magazine 3 Generalist</strong>
+Editor in chief : Nidaa Rawabdeh (JRTV) - Newsreader: Abeer Azzaben
+Reportages :
+.Agreement of association Alegria-EU/twinning/Taiex (EPTV) ·
+.Reform of the tutorial system in Jordan (JRTV) ·
+.Training of alternative mothers for the orphans in Syria (ORTAS)
+<strong>Magazine 4 Topic on Women</strong>
+Editor in chief : Ammar Hallas (EPTV) - Newsreader : Alaa Ebrahim (ORTAS)
+.Website aiming at making students aware of their civil rights (EPTV) ·
+.Portrait of a woman that developed a mechanism for physically handicapped persons (JRTV)
+.Portrait of a woman that have received afunding for a PME project (ORTAS)
+<em><strong>Euromed News editors and chief and journalists meeting
+</strong>4-5 May 2009
+</em>
+On the 4th and 5th May a workshop was held in Algiers aiming at evaluating the start-up phase of the news activities, and at laying the basis for the magazine production and broadcast. The first day of the workshop has been devoted to the general presentation of the MENOS (Multimedia Exchange Network Over Satellite) exchange system set up by ASBU so to become a tool of coordination and of transmission of radio and TV data, news and programmes. The second day has been entirely dedicated to the meeting of the editors in chief and journalists of the Euromed-News project.
+The agenda included the following points:
+-Reports’ analysis of the meetings held on the 15th,16th and 17th April 2009 in Cairo.
+-News coverage plan.
+-Euromed News editors in chief – journalists coordination.
+-Screening and analytical evaluation of the items already produced.
+-Euromed News magazine : format, content, production, broadcast, exchange
+-Euromed News communication plan.
+-Gender equality.
+<em><strong>Euromed News Info Days
+</strong>Cairo, 15-16 April 2009</em>
+On the 15th and 16th April 2009, the Info Days have been organized with the participation of the European Commission representatives in Cairo at the eve of the COPEAM Annual Conference, with the aim of facilitating the coordination and the work between the televisions involved.
+The meeting, attended by the editors in chief, the journalists and the heads of project of each Euromed News broadcaster member, aimed at presenting the various tools and information sources available on the Euro-Mediterranean programs carried out by the European Union.
+In particular, the sessions – led by Mrs Chrystelle Lucas from AIDCO, Mrs Myria Antoniadou from the Euromed Info Centre and Mrs Judith Neisse from the “Enhancing equality between mend an women in the Euro-Med region” Programme focused on the following themes:
+- the sources of the information
+- how to use the EbS (Europe by Satellite) tools and the European Commission audio-visual service
+- how to integrate the transversal strategy for the gender equality in the project
+- the EU neighborhood policy and its programs
+The partners of the project have met on the 17th April 2009 - after the conclusion of the Info Days – in order to establish the working methodology and the agenda of the project.
+It has been agreed that, in the respect of the goals established by the EC, the editorial freedom of each TV will be preserved, and that those news who have regional or general interest will have priority on those of national interest. The exchange, broadcast and re-broadcast methodologies have been reminded, as well as the importance of maximizing the communication and visibility of the project.
+<strong><em>First meeting of Euromed News Consortium's partners</em>
+</strong><em>Tunis, 19 February 2009</em>
- Last 29<sup><span> th</span></sup> November 2010, the closing Press Conference of <span>Euromed-News</span> was held in Tunis, at <span>ASBU</span> headquarters, with the participation of the project consortium members.<br />
+EuroMed News project has launched its operational phase on February 19th at the headquarters of ASBU (Arab State broadcasting Union), in Tunis, where the Consortium’s partners have met for the first time.
- The representatives of France <span>T&eacute; l&eacute;visions</span> (Project leader), <span>COPEAM</span>, <span>ASBU</span> and <span>EBU</span>, <span>togehter</span> with the representatives of some broadcaster partners of the project, expressed their satisfaction for the results achieved through this initiative: the expected objective of 300 news, 40 magazines and 9 documentaries - on the actions carried out by the EC in the <span>ENPI</span> Southern countries - to be produced, broadcast and exchanged was attained and even exceeded.<br />
- All participants underlined the crucial importance of experience made all along this action that, besides the concrete results which were reached, allowed the professionals of 9 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Egypt, France, Jordan, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria) to set up a mechanism of cooperation that will remain as a common asset after the end of the project.</p>
+The “Tunis meeting” has allowed to setting the agenda of the first activities. Two information days on the cooperation relationships between the EU and its neighbour countries of the South of the Mediterranean – on which the TV products will be focused – will be held in Cairo aside the Annual Conference of COPEAM.
+Two more meetings will be held in June: the first one, that will be held in Tunis, will focus on the documentaries production and co-production while the second one, that will be welcomed by the EPTV in Algiers, will be devoted to an inter-cultural workshop during which the participants will co-produce 4 special episodes of the Euromed News magazine.
+For more information on the Euromed News project:
+Official website: <a href="http:// www.euromed-news.org/">http: //www.euromed- news.org/</a>
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