[FoME] Konferenz in Wien: Media in South East and Central Europe and EU

[Christoph Dietz]

SEEMO ADA Conference, 14-16 September 2010 Vienna and other SEEMO Activities 
 

Vienna, 22 July 2010 - The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe is pleased to announce the Dialogue Conference Media in South East and Central Europe and EU: Hate Speech and Stereotypes in the Media, Role of Media in Conflicts and War, Professional Standards and Education of Journalists, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 14 - 16 September 2010.
 
The Conference is being organised by SEEMO in cooperation with the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) - Austrian Development Agency (ADA). SEEMO is expecting over 70 leading media professionals as participants that will have the opportunity to take part on 14 September on a one day gathering in Bratislava, and than on 15 and 16 September in Vienna. In cooperation with long year SEEMO partner Erste Foundation (Erste Stiftung) a reception-dinner will be organised on Wednesday 15 September 2010 in the evening. One of the confirmed speakers of the SEEMO conference is Erhard Busek, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, President of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Coordinator of SECI - Southeast European Cooperative Initiative, Former Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and President of the European Forum Alpbach.
 
"This is an important gathering for exchanging experiences amongst the leading media professionals in South East and Central Europe" pointed out Boris Bergant, former European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Vice President, former RTV Slovenija Deputy Director and SEEMO Board President. 
 
SEEMO Board Member Marta Palics from Novi Sad, Serbia, said: "Hate speech is a reality in the region, the war in the nineties brought a lot of unprofessional behaviours in the media scene in former Yugoslavia. It is vital for SEEMO to follow up this topic."
 
SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic added: "SEEMO organised a similar conference in Vienna in 2006 and it is very important that media professionals from the region are meeting again in Vienna. The fact that the meeting is going to be held in the city where the headquarters of SEEMO is located, is of particular importance for our organisation."
 
This Vienna Dialogue Conference SEEMO is preparing after it organised in May this year very successful the First South East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days in Montenegro. At the end of this year, on 2 and 3 December 2010, SEEMO will organise together with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) and the German publishing group WAZ Medien Gruppe the IV South East Europe Media Forum in Budapest with topic Access to Information - Sources for Investigative Journalists. All this activities are happen in the year when SEEMO is celebrating 10 years of work. Since 2000, SEEMO has brought together, in various meetings, over 9,800 editors-in-chief, media executives, leading journalists and public persons from the region. Additional to that SEEMO is finishing in this year the Handbook for Investigative Journalist, as also the 2010 edition of the SEEMO South East and Central Europe Media Handbook, that should be published in to Volumes on over 2500 pages. During this jubilee year SEEMO is also working on the publications Women, Men and Media and Media, Marketing and Business, and on the regular editions of its media magazine De Scripto SEEMO will continue in 2010 with publishing new books in its edition Leading Investigative Journalists. 
 

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2010 is the year of SEEMO's 10th anniversary
More about SEEMO activities in 2010 on: http://www.seemo.org/activities/futureact.html