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1st AMARC Europe Conference

Supporting Positive Change in Europe through the Expansion of Community Radio

Community Radio in Europe: Broadcasting on the edge

Hotel Caro, Bucharest, Romania, 12-14 December 2008

Agenda

11 December 2008, afternoon

Arrival of participants, registration procedures

Day 1. 12 December 2008

Objective for the day: Establish a diagnostic, define the challenges, explore best models for community media and examine the arguments for advocacy. Produce recommendations for advocacy for an enabling environment for the establishment and the development of community radio.

Day presided by: To be defined

Daily Rapporteur: Nadia Bellardi, Radio LoRa

9h00 10h00 Official Inauguration of the Conference

Welcome Speeches and presentation of the Conference

• Rasvan Popescu, President of the Romanian Broadcast Council
• Aleida Calleja, Deputy President AMARC
• Mariano Sanchez, AMARC Europe President

10h00 10h30 Coffee Break

10h30-12h15 Opening Plenary:

Community Radio in Europe: Broadcasting on the edge International recognition and government's approaches. How to find common standard for community media in the European landscape.

Objective: The objective is to establish the portrait of the situation of community radio in the European media landscape and the challenges for legislations related to community radio and community media in general.

Key note speaker:

Karol Jakubowicz, Expert, Council of Europe. Chairman, Intergovernmental Council, Information for All Programme, UNESCO – Media Pluralism in Europe, the need for a third audiovisual sector

Panelists:

Ioana Avadani, Center for the Independent Journalism (Romania) – The media landscape in Central and Eastern Europe countries, freedom of expression and access to media.

Maria Pia Matta, President AMARC ALC – Political challenges, civil society movements and Community Media.

Nadia Bellardi, CMFE: From Kiev 2005 to Reykjavik 2009: The lobbying efforts for the acknowledgment of the Community Media Sector in Europe.

Mario Lubetkin, Director Inter Press Service – Convergence and alliances trhough electronic netwoks.

Moderator: Francesco Diasio, AMARC Europe Secretary General

12h15- 13h00 Public Debate

Lunch break

14h30 to 16h30 Interactive Workshops.

Workshop 4: Open Proposals From Participants

Day 2. 13 December 2008

Community media development in Europe.

Objective for the Day: Explore, exchange and make recommendations about the forthcoming digital switch over, technical overviews, networking through different electronic media and platforms, ownership and property licences opportunities and threats, filling the gap between western and central/eastern Europe countries.

Day presided by: to be defined

Daily Rapporteur: Stefania Milan, European University Institute (Italy)

9h00 - 9h30 Synthesis of the discussions on the workshops the previous day (10 minutes for each rapporteur)

9h30-11h.00 Plenary: Digital switch over: Challenges and opportunities.
The objective is to frame the challenges and threats of a new digital environment and explore the best strategies to implement the presence of community media.

Panelists:

Emmanuel Boutterin, President of the Syndicat National des Radios Libres (France) – Digital Radio: the social impact of the technical choices and the political struggles

Lawrie Hallett University of Westminster (UK) – Digitize it: the double face of the transition to digital

Angel Garcia Castillejo Board member of the Spanish Commision for the Telecommunication Market- Digital Television (TDT), possibilities and threats for Community Medias

Zoran Stefanoski, Broadcasting Council Republic of Macedonia (tbc,- Digital radio debate in Macedonia and neighboring countries

Moderator: Arne Hintz Central European University -TBC- (Hungary)

11H.00-11.30: Coffee break

11H.30-13.00: Plenary: Community media development in Central and Eastern Europe. Building bridges between Western and Eastern Europe experiences, analyzing the specific challenges.

Otto Tremetzberger, Austrian Association of Free Radios (VFROE), - Challenges, perspectives, recommendations: Some outcomes from a recent study on Community Media in Europe

Nino Jakhua, Radio Green Wave, Georgia – The state of the debate from the borders of Europe
Alexandru Ciochia, Radio Lynx, Romania
Vlad Turcanu, Radio Journalist and former member of the Broadcasting Council
Viviana Uriona, Radio Attac and experience in divers Radio Forum, Germany,

Moderator: Ioana Avadani, CJI

13h00 – 14h30 Lunch

Day 2. 13 December 2008

Community media development in Europe.

Objective for the Day: Explore, exchange and make recommendations about the forthcoming digital switch over, technical overviews, networking through different electronic media and platforms, ownership and property licences opportunities and threats, filling the gap between western and central/eastern Europe countries.

14h30 to 16h30 Interactive Workshops

Workshop 4: Open proposals from participants

Day 3. 14 December 2008

9h00 a 9h30 Synthesis of the previous day workshop

9h30 – 11.30 General Assembly Amarc Europe

Day presided by: to be defined Daily Raporteur: to be defined

Intervention of M.P. Matta, President AMARC ALC on the Latin America Amarc experience

11h00 – 11h30 Coffee Break

9h30 - 11h45 Plenary. The Bucharest Declaration for the Development of Community Radio in Europe
Debate on the Bucharest Declaration for the development of Community Radio in Europe.

Co-Presidency of Plenary. Person from Host country, person from AMARC Europe to be confirmed.

13h00 Official Closure of the Conference

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