And finally - we are at the end!

New Venue - The Open Channel Berlin

During the afternoon all participants were engaged in different workshop such as ...

Radio production,

Video production,

TV Studio production

Second Life workshop.

Lunchtime

It's lunchtime.

For all of you who like to unravel a mystery as a dessert:

Who am I?

How time flies

After the discussion about media literacy and intercultural dialogue this morning and the spectacular live streaming to Japan, the presentation of different countries and media channels (internet, radio etc.) went on.

For example “Second Life” as a tool for intercultural dialogue.

Hello Europe! Hello Japan!

The idea of Community Media don’t stop @ national borders. Far from it. It’s a partnership around the world.





Another highlight of this conference is a Live-Internet-Connection
to the Kyoto Media Festival.

2nd Day - The early bird catches the worm.

Again, it’s 9 am in the morning and the second day has already started. The main topic this morning will be the discourse about Media Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue.

Ph.D. Jane Banks, Ph.D. Jonathan David Tankel, Erick Möllberg and Armin Hottmann discussing this issue.

The first day draws to a close.

So it's time to remember all the good moments and interesting conversations.

Hello Europe!

How does the Open Channels work in Europe?





Mr. Pérez Ramos (Spain) and Mr. Andreassen (Norway) told us about the situation in their countries.





Countries such as The Netherlands, Slowakia or Serbia followed.

Civil Society and Intercultural Dialogue

Thomas Krüger, president of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

He gave an overview about the cultural diversity of the German society & Europe and highlighted the chances of the civil society as a mainspring for an intercultural Europe.

The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue

One of todays speakers was Ms. Karin Resetarits, Member of the European Parliament.




She spoke about the idea of the European Year, the future role of community media and claims its collaboration beyond the national borders.

3,2,1 … The 15th Annual Convention of Open Channels has started!

After a warm welcome by our host Mr. Linke, the European Commissionar Ján Figel´ has opened the conference with a video message.

Good Morning Berlin!

It's 9 am and we have a sunny day in Berlin.


This is to welcome you to our conference blog

"Open Channels and Intercultural dialogue." .

A welcome to our September Conference

From Juergen Linke, Open Channels for Europe!

International Festival of Local Television in Kosice, SK

An interesting meeting in Kosice from the 18th to 21st June 2008:
www.festival.sk

Photo competition: Cultures on my street

Check out the competition from the EU Commission related to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.
Link

European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008

Picture the cultures on your streetThe pan-European photo initiative of the European Year 2008 carries the name“Cultures on my street”. Its objective is to inspire the people of Europe topicture cultural diversity in their everyday lives, at work, at home, with friends,in the neighbourhood, or, like the title of the initiative suggests, on theirstreet. In today’s Europe the borders are fading and people from more and morecultures and backgrounds are coming together for an intercultural dialogue. Captureyour vision of intercultural dialogue and share it with the world! Everyone livingin Europe, regardless of age or origin, is invited to participate – to read moreabout the initiative, please visit the web pages: www.dialogue2008.eu orwww.street-cultures.eu.- read on http://www.dialogue2008.eu/

EU Dialogue Award

Check out the EU Dialogue Award from the ZEB European Education centre. A project especially for schools across Europe.

Link

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Culture and Language?

A short interview with Vladimir Šucha, director EU Commission DG Education and Culture also referring to the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008″.

Media Literacy Conference 2008 on the way

This as the first note to say that the next Berlin Media Literacy Conference will take place in September 2008. Lots more news to come about this in this blog.
We will provide a web community soon if you are interested to join in with the preparations.