Preparations are on the way to meet at “Freies Radio Wüste Welle” in Tübingen, Germany on February 18th and 19th. The meeting will be about the German approaches to media literacy training. Participants will learn about the basic seminars in Tübingen as well as other community radio stations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Experts from the field of media education will lead discussions on what media literacy means for people of all ages and cultures in today’s Europe.
There will be opportunities to try out learning tools already used in German media education and a lot of room for discussion and networking.
Updates will follow soon…

On November 12 and 13, 2012, the kick-off meeting of the project took place in Budapest, Hungary.

In front of CEU: Zrynci utca (Zrynci street) – at night

We came together at the “Central European University” in Budapest for a meeting on media literacy trainings as a means of strenthening community media development and media education in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting took place as a public forum entitled “Public Policies and Media Pluralism – The Future of Community Radio in Central and East Europe”.

On November 12 and 13, 2012, the kick-off meeting of the project took place in Budapest, Hungary.

In front of CEU: Zrynci utca (Zrynci street) – at night

We came together at the “Central European University” in Budapest for a meeting on media literacy trainings as a means of strenthening community media development and media education in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting took place as a public forum entitled “Public Policies and Media Pluralism – The Future of Community Radio in Central and East Europe”. Participants from all project partners and countries united with guests from several Eastern and Central European countries, including Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Serbia, Czech Republic.

From the common statement of the forum:

Participants expressed the fact that the technological modernization that transformed the communications landscape through digital media, doesn’t guarantee information’s diversity and quality. New possibilities must not generate any exclusion, but must contribute to the exercise of the right to communicate and pluralism. They also reaffirmed that new political frameworks and public policies must guarantee a truly independence of regulatory authorities from government and policy makers as a prerequisite to a democratic media landscape. Independent regulatory authorities in power must represent the guarantee of the principle of treatment equity in the attribution of electromagnetic resources. The articulation between fundamental rights and public goods, as the electromagnetic spectrum is, cannot be led by a mere market approach.

For these reasons, the participants of the International Forum demand to the governments of the region to acknowledge associative and community radios without any kind of discrimination and confusion with other local broadcasters and guarantee institutionally the independence of Regulatory Authorities, in the respect of resolutions and declarations adopted by the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Some audio files from the meeting will follow later on, meanwhile you can get a visual impression of some of the discussions here:

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On November 12 and 13, 2012, the kick-off meeting of the project took place in Budapest, Hungary.

In front of CEU: Zrynci utca (Zrynci street) – at night

We came together at the “Central European University” in Budapest for a meeting on media literacy trainings as a means of strenthening community media development and media education in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting took place as a public forum entitled “Public Policies and Media Pluralism – The Future of Community Radio in Central and East Europe”. Participants from all project partners and countries united with guests from several Eastern and Central European countries, including Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Serbia, Czech Republic.

From the common statement of the forum:

Participants expressed the fact that the technological modernization that transformed the communications landscape through digital media, doesn’t guarantee information’s diversity and quality. New possibilities must not generate any exclusion, but must contribute to the exercise of the right to communicate and pluralism. They also reaffirmed that new political frameworks and public policies must guarantee a truly independence of regulatory authorities from government and policy makers as a prerequisite to a democratic media landscape. Independent regulatory authorities in power must represent the guarantee of the principle of treatment equity in the attribution of electromagnetic resources. The articulation between fundamental rights and public goods, as the electromagnetic spectrum is, cannot be led by a mere market approach.

For these reasons, the participants of the International Forum demand to the governments of the region to acknowledge associative and community radios without any kind of discrimination and confusion with other local broadcasters and guarantee institutionally the independence of Regulatory Authorities, in the respect of resolutions and declarations adopted by the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Some audio files from the meeting will follow later on, meanwhile you can get a visual impression of some of the discussions here:

[Show as slideshow]

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On November 12 and 13, 2012, the kick-off meeting of the project took place in Budapest, Hungary.

In front of CEU: Zrynci utca (Zrynci street) – at night

We came together at the “Central European University” in Budapest for a meeting on media literacy trainings as a means of strenthening community media development and media education in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting took place as a public forum entitled “Public Policies and Media Pluralism – The Future of Community Radio in Central and East Europe”. Participants from all project partners and countries united with guests from several Eastern and Central European countries, including Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Slovakia, Serbia, Czech Republic.

From the common statement of the forum:

Participants expressed the fact that the technological modernization that transformed the communications landscape through digital media, doesn’t guarantee information’s diversity and quality. New possibilities must not generate any exclusion, but must contribute to the exercise of the right to communicate and pluralism. They also reaffirmed that new political frameworks and public policies must guarantee a truly independence of regulatory authorities from government and policy makers as a prerequisite to a democratic media landscape. Independent regulatory authorities in power must represent the guarantee of the principle of treatment equity in the attribution of electromagnetic resources. The articulation between fundamental rights and public goods, as the electromagnetic spectrum is, cannot be led by a mere market approach.

For these reasons, the participants of the International Forum demand to the governments of the region to acknowledge associative and community radios without any kind of discrimination and confusion with other local broadcasters and guarantee institutionally the independence of Regulatory Authorities, in the respect of resolutions and declarations adopted by the European Union and the Council of Europe.

Some audio files from the meeting will follow later on, meanwhile you can get a visual impression of some of the discussions here:

[Show as slideshow]

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