Regional Information and Communication

Objectives

It aims at maximising awareness and understanding of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and putting it on the media agenda and the public horizon by promoting debate, dialogue and interaction, engaging young people in discussions about their future, and supporting and strengthening civil society in the region.

What does it do?

It co-produces television and radio programmes, in Europe and the Mediterranean Partner Countries, funds special press supplements and supports youth-oriented projects in the region, trains journalists and promotes the visibility of Euromed and ENPI regional programmes and projects.

Two of the projects it has funded are the EuroMed Info Centre, that collects and disseminates information, writes material and maintains a website in English, French and Arabic, and the EU for Mediterranean Journalists project, that set up a network of journalists and is training them on media related issues and the EU. 

What's next?

Communication activities in all ENPI countries will be implemented, to raise awareness and understanding of the relationship with the EU, among the people of region. The new programme launched in 2008 aim at developing an information and communication campaign, producing information and communication material, developing mutual understanding between key communicators  in EU and ENPI countries and supporting the continued development of free and open opinion formation and freedom of expression in the countries of the ENPI area. In January 2008, a first project has started design to provide training and networking opportunities for the journalists of the ENPI region.

Actions in brief

• Sets up the EuroMed Info Centre, the first dedicated information portal on EU relations and cooperation with Mediterranean Partner Countries (in English, French and Arabic).
• Promotes information to a large public through 170 hours of TV programmes, 80 radio programmes on international radio stations, press supplements in Mediterranean country newspapers.
• Creates a task force of about 400 influential international journalists within the “EuroMed and the Media” project.
• Sets up the training programme “Europe For Mediterranean Journalists” :130 editors and journalists have participated in one or more seminars, 100 articles and 100 audiovisual subjects have been produced (www.eu4medjournalists.eu).
• Launches a journalist training and networking project for the ENPI region
• Organises “Crossing Glances” photo competition and exhibition in 10 countries.
• Carries out opinion research in all Mediterranean countries on perceptions about Euro-Med cooperation.
• Initiates a Middle East Music Award aiming to promote new talents in the Maghreb and Near East countries of the Mediterranean.

http://www.euromedinfo.eu, http:// www.eu4medjournalists.eu, http://www.journalismnetwork.eu