Showing posts with label EC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EC. Show all posts
August 20, 2009
Media Literacy
The European Commission (EC) said on August 20 2009 that Europeans young and old could miss out on the benefits of today's high-tech information society unless more is done to make them "media literate" enough to access, analyse and evaluate images, sounds and texts and use traditional and new media to communicate and create media content.The Commission said that European Union countries and the media industry need to increase awareness of the many media messages people encounter, be they advertisements, movies or online content.
Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said: "Interacting with the media now means a lot more than writing to a newspaper. Media, especially new digital technologies, involve more Europeans in a world of sharing, interaction and creation. Consumers today can create their own content and make new works by transforming third party content.
More at: http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/08/20/772502_european-commission-urges-new-media-literacy
June 15, 2009
NEWS: European Commission supports Kids Festival
European Commission supports Kids Festival
The press conference announcing the 6th Kids Festival 12-17 June 2009 in Sarajevo, took place today at Zetra Olympic complex. Mr Constantino Longares Barrio, First Secretary, Head of Operations Section for Democracy and Social Development of the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina expressed his satisfaction that the European Commission has again been able to support Kids Festival.
“The European Commission has donated 100,000 € for Kid’s Festival”. “The Festival aims to create much better conditions for our children, and that is our ultimate goal when we provide financing such as this.”
Mr Barrio said the Festival represents “a very good example of cooperation among different donors” and he mentioned other participating organisations, including the OSCE, the Swiss cooperation development agency, NATO, UNICEF, and civil society organisations, as well as the City of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Culture and Sports, and private institutions such as Raiffeisen Bank and others, that are helping to make this year’s Festival a success.
The NGO ViaKult is organising Kids Festival, which brings together children from different cultures and geographical backgrounds from all over the country.
“We believe that bringing children together is the most important element,” Mr Barrio said. “We hope that initiatives like this will help establish links which may not exist today, or reinforce small links that have already been established.”
Noting that BiH has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, Mr Barrio pointed out that there were still a number of important institutional and legislative steps that had to be taken in order to comply with UN norms on the children rights, as well as norms applied in the European Union.
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The press conference announcing the 6th Kids Festival 12-17 June 2009 in Sarajevo, took place today at Zetra Olympic complex. Mr Constantino Longares Barrio, First Secretary, Head of Operations Section for Democracy and Social Development of the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina expressed his satisfaction that the European Commission has again been able to support Kids Festival.
“The European Commission has donated 100,000 € for Kid’s Festival”. “The Festival aims to create much better conditions for our children, and that is our ultimate goal when we provide financing such as this.”
Mr Barrio said the Festival represents “a very good example of cooperation among different donors” and he mentioned other participating organisations, including the OSCE, the Swiss cooperation development agency, NATO, UNICEF, and civil society organisations, as well as the City of Sarajevo, the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Culture and Sports, and private institutions such as Raiffeisen Bank and others, that are helping to make this year’s Festival a success.
The NGO ViaKult is organising Kids Festival, which brings together children from different cultures and geographical backgrounds from all over the country.
“We believe that bringing children together is the most important element,” Mr Barrio said. “We hope that initiatives like this will help establish links which may not exist today, or reinforce small links that have already been established.”
Noting that BiH has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, Mr Barrio pointed out that there were still a number of important institutional and legislative steps that had to be taken in order to comply with UN norms on the children rights, as well as norms applied in the European Union.
full article
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