This programme is financed by the EU.
Start date: 2009. Through TV, radio, Internet and print, Internews aims at maximising understanding of the values that are at the base of the European Neighbourhood Policy, including democracy, respects of the rule of law, good governance and respect for human rights. The production of consortium members also highlights the achievements of citizens and institutions of EU member states for what concerns the resolution of potentially conflicting situations via negotiation, as opposed to confrontation.
As part of the ENPI Information and Communication Programme, Internews Europe has created an eight-members consortium formed by two Armenian media organisations, two Azerbaijani media organisations and three Georgian media organisations, and has established contacts with regional media outlets and NGOs, enlisting their cooperation to ensure the widest possible project outreach.
Working in their local languages, journalists from the region are able to integrate a maximum of high quality EU and EU-ENP relevant information into the content of their media products.
By drawing attention to the human dimension of the ENP, the Internews Europe Consortium aims at energising the partnership between citizens of the EU and citizens of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan and at enhancing interaction among different societies and cultures. The programme also aims at improving relations among citizens of neighbouring countries in the region, by stimulating debate and sense of involvement among people.
Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are important ENP beneficiary countries, as they are at the centre of heated political debates (the conflict between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the regulation of the Nagorni Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan) and economic negotiations (energy). In a region where media outlets play an important role as sources of popular culture and disseminators of political information the members of the Internews Europe Consortium strives 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 (aged 15-30 years), men and women, and opinion leaders/formers. The potential overall audience of the project is 12-15 million, including diasporas reached by satellite broadcasting.
In Armenia , the Public Television Company of Armenia, Radio Hay and the newspaper 168 Zham (168 Hours) work together with Internews Europe and Armenia to produce and diffuse:
In Azerbaijan , Antenne radio, Public Television, Zerkalo newspaper, the Internet platform Media Forum along with Internews Europe and Azerbaijan will produce:
Finally, in Georgia , Internews Europe and Georgia are working with Green Wave radio and the newspaper 24 hours along with 6 other national TV stations to diffuse:
Contact person: Floriana Fossato, EU Policy Advisor ffossato[at]internews[dot]fr
DISCLAIMER Maximising EU presence in the ENP regions is supported by the European Commission - European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. The content produced in the frame of this programme is the sole responsibility of the members and partners of the Internews-Europe Consortium and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
Please see our production and learn about our broadcasts also on the portal of ENPI info centre , one of the main communication tools of the ENPI Information and Communication Support Project, launched by the European Commission in January 2009 to make more known the relationship between the EU, its nine partner countries in the Mediterranean and six partner countries in the East.