The project aims at increasing understanding of the values that are at the base of the European Neighbourhood Policy, including democracy, rule of law, human rights and good governance. For this purpose a consortium of television and radio broadcasters, print and online publishers in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are working closely with Internews to integrate a maximum of high quality EU and EU-ENP relevant information into the content of their media products.
By drawing the public attention to the human dimension of the ENP, Internews Media Support NGO, in partnership with Public Television Company of Armenia, Radio Hay and 168 Zham Newspaper, highlight dynamics of cooperation between Armenia and EU countries in various ENP fields. They strive to guarantee quantitative and qualitative growth on media production devoted to in-depth coverage of ENP issues, reaching all social groups, with an emphasis on young people.
Armenian Consortium members activities include:
- Discover Europe PSAs, produced by Internews and broadcast by the Public TV;
- European Formula talk-show, produced and broadcast by the Public TV;
- Parallels special reports, produced by Internews and broadcast by Public TV;
- Kids’ Crossroads in Europe news/features, produced by Internews and broadcast by Public TV;
- European Perspective radio talk-show, produced by Internews and aired by Radio Hay;
- European Window supplement to 168 Zham newspaper.
A cross-border initiative helping young Azerbaijanis and Karabagh Armenians to make documentary films together. The aim of the project is to get people talking to each other across the conflict divide. In their films the authors depict today’s reflection of the Karabakh war through human stories. All films are about the war, though there are no weapons and no fighting. The project is jointly carried out by Internews Armenia, Internews Azerbaijan, Stepanakert Press Club and UK based Conciliation Resources NGO, through funds provided by the UK Conflict Prevention Pool.
Internet portal - www.media.am - on Armenian media and for Armenian media to assist journalists of various regions of Armenia to quickly and easily find the information they need, to study updated relevant literature and regulation, recent research and publications on mass media and to get involved in a forum. The portal has such rubrics, as Analysis, Legislation, Problem, Research, Literature, Events, Trainings, Competitions, TV/Radio News, Media Digest, Interview and many others.
