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Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape

The Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) will hold its first meeting from 14 to 16 May 2012 in the Council of Europe (room 5). Delegations from the 50 signatory States to the European Cultural Convention have been invited, as well as observers and international organisations and associations. The CDCPP will deal with the implementation of the activities in the 2012-2013 programme of activities already approved by the Committee of Ministers. It will have a substantive discussion on how the sectors of culture, heritage and landscape can make an integrated and transversal contribution to the aims of the Council of Europe, and make proposals for future action to be submitted to the Committee of Ministers. It will also decide on the working methods and the structure of the next plenary session in 2013 with a view to the best possible implementation of the Terms of Reference. [26/04/2012] Photo: Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General, DG Democracy and Robert Palmer, Director, Democratic Governance, Culture and Diversity Directorate.

Draft agenda


 

4th MARS National Media Encounter - Journalism & Media Training & Literacy

The 4th MARS National Media Encounter - Journalism & Media Training & Literacy - will hold from 24 to 26 May 2012 in Cluj (Romania). Co-organised by Active Watch / Media Monitoring Agency, the objective of this encounter is to allow trainers and educators to develop and to have access to pedagogical and methodological tools for journalism training and media literacy in order to allow journalism students and journalists to considering non discrimination and expression of diversity as an ongoing angle of media coverage. (more...) [11/05/2012]


 

MARS National Media Encounter about Media Cross-Production

A MARS National Media Encounter about Media Cross-Production was held in Dublin (Ireland) from 25 to 28 April 2012. The aim of this encounter is to encourage, by organising national media encounters, pairings of media professionals with a view to co-produce and co-disseminate high-quality and professional written or audiovisual media reports on sports’ issues, even if not exclusively, including non-discrimination and expression of diversity as an angle of media coverage. (more...) [04/05/2012]


 

Bureau of the Bern Convention's Standing Committee

The Bureau of the Bern Convention's Standing Committee met in Strasbourg on 23rd April 2012 to review the implementation of the annual Programme of Activities, as well as to discuss the state of progress of the case-files and other complaints lodged, the strategic development of the Convention, and the results of the meeting of the Group of Specialists on the European Diploma of Protected Areas. [26/04/2012]

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Discover the first outputs of the European Media Work Exchanges and exclusive interviews!

The MARS Media Work Exchanges are a unique opportunity for media professionals, and future ones, to widen the scope of their media practices and contact pools. [18/04/2012]

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3rd meeting of the Spanish Intercultural Cities Network (RECI)

The third meeting of RECI-Spanish Intercultural Cities Network was held in Getxo (Bilbao) on 13 April. The meeting focused mainly on the implementation of intercultural strategies by local authorities, with contributions made by representatives of RECI member cities (Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Donostia, Fuenlabrada, Getxo, Jerez, Parla, Sabadell and Tenerife). [16/04/2012]


 

MARS Programme: National Media Encounter "Journalism and Media Training and Literacy"

The 2nd MARS National Media Encounter – Journalism & Media Training & Literacy co-organised by Media Animation and the CLEMI (Liaison centre of education and news media) was held in Paris from 11 to 13 April 2012. During these three days, around 35 journalism trainers and journalists joined by some media educators conceived and produced journalism training tools using media literacy resources and approaches in order to include diversity and non discrimination as standard angles of media coverage. (more...) [13/04/2012]


 

Cultural Policy Review of Turkey

In the framework of the Cultural Policy Review of Turkey, an experts visit took place from 30 March to 6 April 2012 and covered the cities of Diyarbakır, Mardin, Trabzon and Izmir. This is the 29th Council of Europe Cultural Policy Review, to be concluded in spring 2013 with a presentation of the findings at the Plenary Session of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP). [10/04/2012]


 

Panel "The Cultural Turn and its Practice in the Humanities"

Climate and environment, both themes relevant to culture, are issues which were discussed by noteworthy representatives from science and politics on the panel "The Cultural Turn and its Practice in the Humanities" on March 29, in Karlsruhe (Germany). This was followed by a ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) premiere show of Andrea Molino’s scenic opera "Three Mile Island". The opera thematises the reactor disaster in Pennsylvania in 1979, specifically showing how cultural perspectives can shed light on a drastic event. This event is linked to the work done by working group inter-secretariat of the Council of Europe on climate change. (more...) [02/04/2012]

 
 
FOCUS: Directorate

Change of Directorate structures

The Secretary General has implemented structural changes that have affected the work of the Directorate of Culture, Cultural and Natural Heritage and other Directorates of the Organisation. From 1 October 2011, programmes and staff have been transferred to a newly established Directorate of Democratic Governance, Culture and Diversity, within the Directorate-General Democracy (DGII). Robert Palmer was appointed as Director. The main aim of the change is to achieve greater coherence of the Council of Europe’s work by linking political, social and cultural aspects of the work on democratic processes. (more...)


 
 
 
 
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