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Circom Regional and the European Parliament Seminar
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13th and 14th April 2004, Brussels
CIRCOM Regional and the European Parliament are jointly organising a Seminar for 10 new members of EU which will be related to the European elections 2004.
The Seminar should be attended by Journalists or Editors who in your Television organisation report on the elections. The intention of the Seminar is that the participants get to know the functioning of the European Parliament, the importance of the elections, the technical possibilities that are at the disposal to the journalists. During the Seminar the participants will have the possibility to use technical capacities for making the reports, free of charge. The European Parliament is trying to arrange a meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Mr Cox, who would answer the questions of the participants-Delegates.
The travel and subsistance expenses of the Delegate from each country will be borne by the European Parliament. The daily allowance has been set at 100 euro. Delegates are kindly requested to arrange their journey by the most economical route. Travel expenses will only be reimbursed upon presentation of documentary evidence of the sum actually paid (invoice). Delegates are requested to book the hotel accommodation themselves. With the daily allowance (100 euro) the delegates will pay the hotel.
Would you please give the name of your Delegate, soonest possible, to:
CIRCOM Regional
Branka Prazic
tel +385 1 634 3690
fax +385 1 634 3621
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with a copy to:
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Kirsten Tingsted-Andersen
tel +32 2 284 48 17
fax +32 2 230 12 06
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The Delegates should have their Press Card with them and they should bring a brief description of how their television organisation intends to cover the European elections.
Since this is the first time that we are making a Seminar together with the European Parliament, you are kindly requested to choose the right candidates, if not from your Regional stations then from the central station. This is of course one additional benefit for CIRCOM Regional.
For any additional question or problem please contact Branka Prazic (+385 1 634 3690)
New CIRCOM Regional President
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RAI’s Paolo Morawski is the new president of CIRCOM Regional, succeeding Lefty Kongalides who was in the same position from 2001-2003.
With an unanimous vote of the European Board Morawski accepted the honor of leading Europe’s only regional television association.
Morawski was instrumental in the success of the annual CR conference in Grado, Italy.
In a short speech Paolo thanked everyone and underlined that he will “listen, listen, listen” to what the members suggest and ask and he will do his best to carry on.
Kongalides, whose tenure as president ends December 31, added that the CIRCOM Regional years were the best of his career.
Full of praise for the outgoing president were also CR General Secretary Marija Nemcic and European Board member Jean-Marie Belin.
European Commission announces major co-financing for programmes about the EU
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On 12th May, the European Commission's Press and Communications Directorate launched a major call for proposals from EU broadcasters and producers aimed at raising awareness of the European Union's activities. 16 million Euros will be available in co-financing. The announcement says "We are looking for dynamic programmes which will stimulate the interest of the general public. The programmes can be short, long, one-off, series, documentaries, infotainment, edutainment, game shows, magazines, fact or fiction, passive or interactive".
The main objective is to demonstrate that the policies of the EU are not distant or alien, and that they have a positive impact on citizens' daily lives.
The call is for programme ideas in three broad categories.
1. Enlargement. At least 2 EU member states, or 2 regions in 2 member states, must be involved in each project, though broadcasters in the accession countries can be associate partners (the number of member states should exceed the number of new member states) Programmes should be broadcast between August 2003 and December 2004. A fund of 4 million euros has been allocated to this subject.
2. The Future of Europe (relating to the Convention which is currently debating a draft constitution and other matters). Programmes can be shown in just one EU country, but must each a 'significant audience' Can work with an accession country partner. Broadcasting should take place between December 2003 and end of May 2004. 4 million euros allocated.
3. General Information about the EU. Again, programmes can be shown in just one EU country, or several, with possible partners in accession countries and in third countries. Programmes should be broadcast between December 2003 and December 2004. 8.5 million Euros will be available.
Subventions for TV projects will be between 100,000 and 300,000 Euros per project. For Radio they will be between 25,000 and 75,000 Euros.
Priority will be given to broadcasts scheduled in prime time reaching the largest possible audiences.
Applications for category one - Enlargement - must be submitted by the end of June. The deadline for other proposals is mid-September.
The call for proposal material is available at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/press_communication/grants.htm
The EC Director of Communications, Niels Jorgen Thogerson is expected to be a speaker at the Circom 21st annual conference in Grado and will be able to give delegates more details of this co-financing initiative.
CR elections for new President and EC
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During the European Board meeting in Wroclaw, Poland, Nov. 30 2003, the election for the President and the members of the Executive Committee will take place.
The election procedure shall be as follows, determined by the Statute:
1) Each candidate must be nominated by a National Coordinator and seconded by two others. National Coordinators may exercise their right either to nominate or to second, but not both, and may do so for only one candidate.
2) Nominations must be submitted in writing to the Secretary General.
3) Each candidate shall provide official approval in writing from his organisation enabling him/her to take the responsibility for tasks allocated by the Executive Committee.
Each member of the EC shall be allocated responsibility for a specific field of activity.
The fields of activity are: Finances, Annual Conference, Training, Coproductions, Prix Circom, EBS, PR & Sponsors.
Therefore you are kindly asked to select two fields in which the applicant’s work will be useful for CR.
In the current EC, the membership expires for four National Coordinators (E. Spanily, P. Couchard, Z. Medved, J. Klein).
There is also the possibility for the extension of the mandate for J. Klein for a year.
Circom technical trainers of the future attend course at Avid Technology Europe.
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Avid Technology's European headquarters was the location for Circom's technical training course organised to help improve the support given to the annual journalism training seminar.
The training concentrated on the operation of the Avid Xpress DV editing software and was organised by Karol Cioma, the Circom Regional Training Project Manager and delivered by Trevor Bowden, Avid's Senior Training Manager.