External Events

Members of the Belgian and German MEDIADEM teams took part in the ‘Teaching the teachers’ seminar for journalism professors and bloggers, which took place on March 16-18, 2012 in Yerevan, Armenia. This 3-day training session was organised by the Council of Europe and the Armenian Online Media and Journalists Association in the framework of the joint CoE-EU programme ‘Promoting freedom, professionalism and pluralism of the media in the South Caucasus and Moldova’. More »

Members of the Greek and Romanian MEDIADEM teams delivered seminars in the context of the FONI project (Freedom of new ideas: Promotion of the freedom of expression, freedom of the press and freedom of speech among the Moldovan younger generations). FONI is funded by the European Union’s EIDHR programme for Moldova and is implemented by the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO). More »

The SCRIPT Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Edinburgh, School of Law is organising a conference on ‘Wikileaks: law and ethics’. The conference will take place on Friday 11 February, from 16:30 to 19:00, at the Conference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square (Edinburgh). The conference will explore key legal and ethical issues surrounding the recent WikiLeaks disclosures. The agenda of the conference is available here.

The Bielefeld University organised a workshop at the national conference ‘Public and Democracy’, which took place in Berlin on 1-3 October 2010. The conference allowed around 600 participants with political or media background, students, members of civil rights organisations and representatives of media unions to choose from more than 70 talks, workshops and discussion groups. More »

Last week, the second workshop of MediaACT, a project related to Mediadem took place in Tartu, Estonia. The ‘Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe’ project is a comparative research effort on media accountability systems (MAS) in EU member states as indicators for media pluralism in Europe. More »

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The European University Institute in Florence held a workshop on 16 April 2010 on current trends in film law. The workshop addressed this issue both from a European as from a comparative legal perspective, and several MEDIADEM partners where represented therein (see programme). One of the main core arguments discussed in the seminar was related to the nature of films, asking whether they are cultural goods or, rather, industrial products. The consequences related to public policy options deriving from both conceptions where thus developed in detail. Further, media convergence was also a key element in the debates. New problems existing in this framework, such as the relationship between film production and broadcasters, or copyright issues, are inevitably to be taken into account when drafting an agenda for film public policies today. The papers presented at the workshop will be published in due course.