Launch of The Studio

The Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) will officially launch its Multimedia Studio on 16 May at 18:00.

Located in the Buffer Zone at the CCMC premises on the Ledra Palace Hotel grounds, The Studio will be a place where civil society organisations can come to receive technical media skills trainings in audio/visual productions, create their own messages and produce their own media content that highlights their efforts in such diverse areas as health, environment, gender issues, diversity and peace and reconciliation.

Speaking at the Launch will be:
John M. Koenig, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus
Georgios Markopouliotis, Head of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus
Christopher Louise, UNDP-ACT Programme Manager
Larry Fergeson, CCMC General Manager

The Studio Launch is part of the MultiCommMedia project supported by the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP-ACT) Action for Cooperation and Trust in Cyprus and implemented by the Cyprus Community Media Centre.

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UNESCO sees 3 May as an occasion around which initiatives can be encouraged and developed in support of press freedom. At CCMC we also believe that World Press Freedom Day offers an ideal starting point for journalists across the divide to start to build an understanding and common framework of action around shared principles and values. It is also an opportunity to sensitise all Cypriots about the need for the rights of journalists to be guaranteed, and to inform them that in Cyprus those rights will not be fully safeguarded until a just and lasting settlement is agreed, and a demilitarisation of the island takes place.

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CCMC welcomes European Media!

Since 2011 around 1000 media professionals have contributed to the MARS - Media Against Racism in Sports programme in order to consider diversity and non-discrimination topics in the daily media work. The new joint EU/CoE programme MEDIANE- Media in Europe for Diversity Inclusiveness - supports exchanges of media professionals to share media practices and develop tools and examples which include diversity as a general approach in their daily practices 

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The 1st MEDIANE European Encounter From media diversity coverage to media diversity inclusiveness will be hosted in Nicosia (Cyprus) from 10 to 12.06.13. Around 80 participants will contribute to the first European encounter and will jointly work on practical tools and practices for diversity inclusiveness in the areas of media production, journalism training and editorial management. More information on the Cyprus encounter and pre-register for this event can be found here. 

For more information, please check out MEDIANE's first newsletter. 

Media Buffer Zone Project

 Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) along with organisations based in Palestine (Near East Consulting), Bosnia Herzegovina (UG Zašto ne) and Egypt (Qabila Media Productions) were recently awarded an “Innovation Grant” for their novel idea entitled “Media Buffer Zone Project”. The opportunity came about from the group’s participation in "The Power of One" conference, hosted by the Cyprus-based “Peace It Together” network and supported by the United Nations Development Programme - Action for Cooperation and Trust and the Office of Middle East Programmes of USAID in October 2012.

The conference was an inter-regional learning exchange on the role of citizens and civil society in stimulating social change during periods of transition, and gathered over 200 people from 28 countries from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. By convening in Nicosia, the conference reflected the position of Cyprus as a historical, cultural and geographical crossroads, as well as its potential to act as a facilitator of positive change. During the conference, participants voted “Media Buffer Zone Project” as the audience favourite.

The objective of the six-month project is to enable regional CSOs to produce and disseminate professional and innovative cost effective media messages either directly through media skills training and capacity building and/or indirectly through a network for media professionals and artists, to transfer knowledge to get CSOs to address the key issue of media across the Euro-Mediterranean region and to establish sustainable partnerships inter-regionally.

To achieve this objective the “Media Buffer Zone Project” will do the following:

1.       Discern what media skills CSOs in Cyprus, the MENA region and Europe need through research and a needs awareness analysis.

2.       Design a CSO specific media skills training programme based on the needs assessment

3.       Conduct media skills trainings for national and regional CSO networks in Cyprus, the MENA region and Europe.

4.       Connect CSOs in Cyprus, the MENA region and Europe through a virtual platform network with media professionals and artists who want to contribute to the advancement and productivity of regional CSOs by helping to produce and disseminate professional, innovative cost effective media messages.