26.01.2007
Priority!
Civil Media Centre
Priority! is a name for actions undertaken by young people from Poland, Germany, France, Ukraine, Belarus, Azrbaijan and Georgia, which are meant to inform the youth about Europe. The young people will work for two years on a website devoted to informal education, youth actions and local initiatives of civil organizations in Europe.
A social television service ngotv.eu will be created for the youth and civil organizations. There will be organized trainings and international media workshops, during which young people will have a chance to learn how to use a camcorder, edit video files, convert video files, conduct interviews and edit the ngotv.eu website. ngotv.eu.
Priotytet: Youth!
Priority! Is also a name of a European information service broadcast in ngotv.eu internet television. Any organization that belongs to Youth4Media Network, association as well as civil organizations from Georgia and Azerbaijan will be able to participate in the production of the website. The service will be produced exclusively by organizations and youth groups, which themselves will decide how often, in which languages and at what times it should be broadcast. Priority! Will inform about all things relied to youth, education and international co-operation.
Priority! Will not only be broadcast in the social internet television, but also made available for download in the form of podcasts. Also, there will be produced 4 half-hour long television programmes named Priority: Europe, containing information on the European Union.
ngotv.eu – open television
ngotv.eu is a social internet television service co-produced by youth from different European countries. The website will also contain materials on demand (VoD) produced by young people during international media workshops as well as productions of all member organizations of Youth4Media Network association. Moreover, ngotv.eu will broadcast information services Priority! and Priority! flash. Ngotv.eu service is planned to be open for the upload of amateur videos by registered users. We would be particularly keen on getting productions of civil organizations.
Aims of the project:
- • development of a training programme for youth workers working with civil media - to plan a five-day workshop that can teach youth workers to promote their organization or group in civil media
- • sharing of knowledge about how to create audio-visual materials for internet television
- • training of a group of civil media multiplicators
- • improvement of youth programmes by sharing experiences and the know-how of civil media
- • creation of a social internet television service ngotv.eu
- • spreading information about the Youth Programme in action and international co-operation of youth in Caucasus and Eastern Europe
- • production of the Priority! information service available on the ngotv.eu website.
- • making the youth from Germany, France and Poland sensitive to the situation in Eastern Europe and countries of the Caucasus
- • strengthening the partnership and sense of solidarity between young people from Eastern and Western Europe
- • support for the participation of young people in the civil society
- • support for the development of civil media centres in Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Belarus
- • Extension of the European Association Youth4Media Network to include new organizations from Azerbaijan and Georgia
Civil media - training module for youth workers
Training module created by a working group AG1 - Training (Poland, Germany, France, Ukraine) will contain a plan of a five-day training session about civil media for youth workers and basic information on how to produce audiovisual material from a youth exchange and place it on the ngotv.eu social internet television website.
Trainings for civil media multiplicators
Five-day workshop sessions for youth workers from seven member organizations will be held in July 2007 in Orléans and in April 2008 in Lublin. The workshops will test the training module as well as the newly-trained people.
Work with local youth
Every trained multiplicator will be asked to prepare a group of young people for international media workshops (August 2007 in Münster, June 2008 in Lublin, August 2008 in Münster). Moreover, groups of young people in each country will produce materials for the Priority! Information service and collect footage for the production of Priority: Europe! television magazines. Young people from Lublin will coordinate work on the information service, edit ngotv.eu and produce podcasts. Material from partner organizations will be sent to the server via internet.
International media workshops
Young people from seven member countries will attend three international media workshop sessions, during which they will produce 4 half-hour long television magazines - Priority: Europe! The magazines will be broadcast by OTV Münster, on the ngotv.eu website and available as VoD. During workshops, young people will also edit ngotv.eu.
Audio-visual materials
Four TV magazines Priority: Europe! as well as the most interesting audio-visual materials will be available on CDs and distributed during regional conferences in Lutsk (November 2007) , Tbilisi (October 2008) and the closing conference of the Free Media Bridges project in Lutsk (December 2008.)
Extension of the European Youth4Media Network Association
Partner organizations from Azerbaijan and Georgia will be invited to participate in the Youth4Media association, but they will not be able to fully join it until the finalization of the Free Media Bridges project.
Regional conferences
Conferences in Lutsk (November 2007) and Tbilisi (October 2008)will promote civil media, international youth co-operation, work of the Youth programme and the ngotv.eu. social service.
Priority! And ngotv.eu will be produced as part of the Free Media Bridges
from East to West project, which is financed by the European Commission.
