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“SPEAK OUT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION” CAMPAIGN & “INTERCULTURAL CITIES” PROGRAMME

INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE AND FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

CROSSED MEDIA REPORTS: EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON APULIA

VENUE & DATES Bari – Apulia – Italy 9 – 11 December 2009

BACKGROUND Today in Europe, discrimination is a crime. And yet various European and national reports show that discrimination continues to be commonplace and that the victims, or potential victims, are relatively uninformed about their rights and the possible remedies available at national and European level. Accordingly, the Speak out against discrimination campaign in conjunction with the Intercultural Cities programme – a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission - seeks to promote the production and dissemination of a quality and professional information. On the basis of media partnerships, this information will have to highlight two specific points:,

1 the general prohibition of discrimination (“Discrimination is a crime”); information targeting public opinion in general, to be developed in conjunction with the media (mainstream and ethnic & diversity media) and their professionals,

2 the mechanisms for protecting and defending the rights of victims of discrimination: this information is intended for victims or potential victims and is to be developed in conjunction with the ethnic & diversity media and their professionals.

OBJECTIVES To encourage, by organising a European media workshop in Italy, the formation of local, national or European pairings of media professionals with a view to the co-production and co-distribution of high-quality and professional written or audiovisual reports on intercultural reality and the fight against discrimination at European, national and local level.

To raise awareness among media professionals, via their own co-production and co- distribution ventures, of possible innovatory practices in the coverage of intercultural reality and the fight against discrimination at European, national and local level.

To contribute to strengthen local, national and European networks of media professionals for high-quality and professional media coverage of intercultural reality and the kinds of action taken to combat discrimination in Europe. CONTENT Organisation of a European exchange meeting on professional and journalistic practices.

Production and publication/broadcasting of reports offering different perspectives on intercultural dialogue and the fight against discrimination.

Participants will therefore be asked to produce, in groups of 2 or 3, media report(s) offering different perspectives on the above-mentioned topics. The way the subjects dealt with are treated in these reports must reflect their local, national and European dimensions. Based on practical production activity, the workshop should give media professionals a better understanding of intercultural dialogue and fight against discrimination. These media reports will then be published or broadcast through several supports (orangelog.eu, websites of the CoE antidiscrimination campaign and intercultural cities programme) or media participants will have to choose to disseminate and broadcast their own work. As well as permitting comparison of professional practices, the purpose of this workshop is to enable public opinion to see and hear a different way of expressing the diversity that exists in modern European societies.

The programme will include a session in the programme of the Forum of Intercultural Cities at which the reports, the observations and the conclusions made by the media participants on Bari’s intercultural dynamics will be presented, in order to give other official representatives involved in the Forum a better understanding of intercultural and antidiscrimination issues given through perspectives of media professionals.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 1 / Thomas ALBOTH, photographer and web designer, international and German media, member of Orange magazine, Berlin, Germany

2 / Geta BOCSE, radio journalist, chief editor of the regional station Radio Transilvania, member of Orange Magazine, Oradea, Romania

3 / Ilenia CAITO, radio journalist, Bari, Italy

4 / Michele CAROFIGLIO, radio journalist, Bari, Italy

5 / Anna Franca DIDONNA, press journalist, member of Orange magazine, Bari, Italy

6 / Krischan DIETMAIER, documentary filmmaker, Bilderfest (production company working for ARTE), Planegg, Germany

7 / Paola GUARNIERI, radio journalist, RAI, Italy

8 / Anniki LEPPIK, press journalist and photographer, regional newspaper, member of Orange magazine, Parnu, Estonia

9 / Palina MAHILINA, print press and radio journalist from Belarus, member of Orange magazine, Olomouc, Czech Republic

10 / Davide SASSARINI, free-lance web-journalist for Agendacomunicazione, Gizmodo_it, coordinator Youthmedia.eu, member of Orange magazine, Genoa, Italy

11 / Anna SULEWSKA, press journalist from Poland, coordinator and Orange magazine chief editor, Berlin, Germany

Council of Europe – Crossed Media reports – Bari Forum of Intercultural Cities - p.2 COUNTRIES AND CITIES Berlin, Planegg (Germany), Parnu (Estonia), Bari, Genoa (Italy), Olomouc (Czech

INVOLVED Republic), Orodea (Romania)

PROPOSED SCHEDULE Media, Intercultural Dialogue & Fight against discrimination

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, 8TH DECEMBER 09

Late afternoon Journalists arrive

19.30 Meeting at the Hotel Victor + Dinner (with journalists already arrived or based in Bari) Hotel Victor Via Nicolai, 71 70 122 Bari Tel. + 39 080 521 66 00 Fax + 29 080 521 26 01

WEDNESDAY, 9TH DECEMBER 09 Meeting at Puglia Region Mediterranean Department Via Gobetti, 26 – Bari.

8.30 am DEPARTURE FROM THE HOTEL (by bus)

9.00 – 10.30 am INTRODUCTORY SESSION Presentation of the Intercultural Cities programme Annasophia Heintze, Intercultural Cities Programme, Council of Europe, Presentation of the Campaign “Speak out against discrimination” Reynald BLION, Media & Diversity Manager, Antidiscrimination Campaign, Council of Europe

Presentation of a first perspective on Bari’s intercultural dynamics - Silvia Godelli, Councillor for the Mediterranean of the Regione Puglia - Tiziana Di Cosmo, Director of the Council for Social Solidarity of the Regione Puglia - Fabio Losito, Councillor for Youth Politics, Reception and Peace of the Municipality of Bari Recapitulation of the aims of the meeting Practical matters

10.30 – 11.00 am BREAK

Council of Europe – Crossed Media reports – Bari Forum of Intercultural Cities - p.3 11.30 am – 1.00 pm BUILDING OF JOURNALISTS’ TEAMS AND SELECTION OF ISSUES AND

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Facilitator – Reynald Blion, Media & Diversity manager, Council of Europe Chief Editor – Anna Sulewska, Orange Magazine, Germany

Choice of teams working together and of subjects to be covered and the ways of handling them On the basis of each participant’s practice, this first session is intended to define the subjects to be covered in the media reports and the reporting methods (formation of teams of 2 or 3, angle of approach, work schedule...). Each team should consist into pair or trios of journalists and share out the topics to be discussed in the context of the meeting. With the backing and mentoring of the facilitator, the Orange magazine Chief Editor and local participants of Apulia Region, each team will be required during this session to begin preparing the treatment of the subject- matter. After about one hour of work in teams, each of them should present its allotted subject, particularly the choices made as to its sources, method of handling it, format, etc and its specific need to cover it. A collective will then allow participants to fine-tune the choices made and to organise the appointments and so on….

1.00 – 2.00 pm LUNCH

2.00 – … pm WORK IN TEAMS Preparation of media reports 2.00 – 6.00 pm Possible short visits prepared by Apulia Region (by private shuttle) to: CIE Identification and deportation centre, Bari CARA Centre for the reception of asylum seekers, Bari Gipsy camp of Iapigia, Bari

6.00 pm Other possible visits and contacts ARCI, meeting with the association for social promotion and open discussion with minority organisations Antidiscrimination bodies Intercultural organisations Experts on interculturalism and migrations Local journalists…

Evening FREE

Council of Europe – Crossed Media reports – Bari Forum of Intercultural Cities - p.4 THURSDAY, 10TH DECEMBER 09

8.00 – 9.00 pm BREAKFAST SESSION – Hotel Victor Session made to assess the work made during the several visits and appointments organised during the first day

9.00 am – 4.00 pm WORK IN TEAMS

Plan of work for each team will be decided during the breakfast session

During this period of time, each team can choose to follow their investigation or to come to work at the Apulia Region Offices to build their report

10.00 pm – 11.00 pm Possible visit to FerrHotel Building occupied and self-managed by somali political refugees

In any case, a first draft of each media report should be finalized for the session organised at 4.00 pm at the Apulia Region Offices

4.00 – 5.30 pm GLOBAL MEETING at Puglia Region Mediterranean Department

Collective meeting of all the teams

Presentation of the work done and if possible of a first draft of each media report made during the last 2 days

Global discussion on the main observations made by each team on Bari’s intercultural dynamics and on discrimination in the Apulia Region

Discussion the presentation of the media reports to be done during the Intercultural Cities Forum

FRIDAY, 11TH DECEMBER 09

9.00 am – 7.00 pm Local communities and the policies of hospitality and integration in Europe and in the Mediterranean

Forum of the Intercultural Cities

(Final programme given on location)

Council of Europe – Crossed Media reports – Bari Forum of Intercultural Cities - p.5 OUTPUT Media reports (print press, radio, video and multimedia) produced by the teams of journalists and disseminated through various media supports

Production of a global journalistic report setting out the main results and key observations made by the journalists on the Bari’s intercultural dynamics

Reports stemming from the media coverage on the broad issues associated with intercultural dialogue and the fight against discrimination in Italy and more generally in Europe.

EXPECTED RESULTS Suggestions for future co-production projects at local, national or European level to promote intercultural dialogue and action against discrimination

Permanent dialogue and exchange between media professionals at local, national and European level

Enrichment of professional practices in the sense of a greater awareness of intercultural dialogue and the fight against discrimination in Europe, through comparison of the lessons learnt from different experiences.

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