What is CIRCOM

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What is CIRCOM?

• CIRCOM is a unique international audiovisual
  network in Europe with 376 public regional
  television stations from 38 countries

CIRCOM is an association with 33 years of
activities
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CIRCOM Member stations
AUSTRIA BELGIUM - RUMANIA CROATIA CYPRUS -
CZECH REPUBLIC SLOWAK REPUBLIK - DENMARK -
FAROE ISLANDS FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY -
GREECE HUNGARY - IRELAND - ITALY LITHUANIA -
MACEDONIA MALTA MOLDOVA NETHERLANDS -
NORWAY - POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA -
SLOVENIA SPAIN - SWEDEN - SWITZERLAND UKRAINE
- UNITED KINGDOM
CIRCOM European Board
National Coordinators Associate Members of the
Board Individual Members
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CIRCOM Executive Committee RAI TVP3
HRT France 3 RTVE BBC MTV BR TV SYD
Circom Secretariat Zagreb, Croatia coordination
of all activities will move to Germany in
october 2007
permanent office in Strasbourg
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What does CIRCOM do?

• Promotes and develops cooperation between
  members
• Co-produces and exchanges programmes
• Strengthens training for journalists and
  technicians across Europe
• Honours and rewards the best regional TV
  programmes in Europe

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Objectives

• To examine Regional Television in Europe from an
  innovative and practical angle and contribute to
  the development of regional culture and
  identities
• To bring together researchers and professionals
  from the mass media across the borders and
  initiate a dynamic cultural approach in regional
  development
• To provide a unique forum for ideas and
  experience and a network for exchanging staff and
  equipment between European regional stations

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• To foster communication between members
• To make co-productions and encourage the exchange
  of regional programmes news magazines,
  cross-border news bulletins, documentaries,
  programmes for young people and cultural music
  programmes
• The Prix CIRCOM Regional awards the best regional
  programmes in Europe
• Increase training for journalists and technicians.

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• To represent and ensure the active participation
  of CIRCOM Regional (CR) at conferences,
  conventions and seminars of the audiovisual
  industry in Europe
• To distribute information on audiovisual
  developments in Europe
• To increase the number of programme exchanges and
  co-productions, encourage cooperation, stimulate
  training on a European level and strengthen
  relations between Circom members.

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Training

• How Big is Your World - Globalisation Event
  
  European Youth Centre Strasbourg
• Middle Management Seminar
• Journalism Workshop
  
• Video Journalism Workshop
• Newsroom Managers News Editors Workshop

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Prix CIRCOM
This is the only television award for programmes
from all the regions of Europe, the most highly
rewarded and the most highly regarded. The
entries are judged by some of the most
experienced programme makers in Europe. The
winners and commended are worthy of watching by
any professional who needs to know how European
television tastes and quality are changing and by
every professional who wants new, fresh ideas in
how to attract regional audiences.
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The Categories

• Documentary
• News Report
• Television Across Europe
• Sport
• Station Web Site

Sponsors France 3, BBC, SVT, ERT, Committe of
the Regions, AVID
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The annual Conference
An annual Conference has been organised since
1983 by a member station in a different European
city Copenhagen, Strasbourg, Birmingham, Iasi,
Szeged, Thessaloniki, Cavtat, Potsdam, Porto,
Kosice, Grado, Wroclaw, Liverpool

• The primary purposes of the Annual Conference
• to view and discuss quality regional programmes
• to make awards for excellence in regional
  programme-
• making
• to debate professional issues
• to launch co-production projects
• to realise training initiatives
• Annuel Conference May, 2007 Bilbao, Spain

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Circom Briefing

• Very interesting programme in october 2006 during
  Open Days in Brussels
• Includes meetings with highest EU officials -
  from Vice-President of the European Commission
  Margot Wallström to representatives from
  Parliament to Committee of the Regions
• Your first step to join Circom-Regional

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• CIRCOM WEBSITE ADDRESS
• www.circom-regional.org