09. 07. 2015

ANEM - FREE TRAINING FOR MEDIA IN WRITING PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR CO-FINANCING OF MEDIA PROJECTS

Belgrade, 9/7/2015 - The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) hereby informs all interested media that it will organize, in the following couple of months and with the help of the Ministry of Culture and Information, four free two-day workshops on the topic of "The basics of writing project proposals with the aim of co-financing media projects". The workshops will be organized in July, September, October and November in Belgrade, Nis, Kragujevac and Novi Sad. We have planned on having a total of 50 participants in the workshops, which will be run by Jasmina Debeljak, an expert with longstanding experience in working on international and donor projects and education for writing and project management.

The goal of the workshops is to raise the media's capacity for writing projects for the competitions called by the Ministry of Culture and Media, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and local governments for the co-financing of public interest in the field of public information. ANEM recognized the need of not only its members, but also that of other media for developing project proposal writing skills, since the new Law on Public Information and Media foresees project co-financing as the only type of state aid to the media (save for specific exceptions), while providing, along with the Rulebook, for many new rules in that area. By improving these skills, the media have greater chances to gather part of the funds they need to operate through project co-financing and to contribute better to the realization of the public interest in the field of public information. ANEM wants to help them achieve that aim with the aforementioned workshops.

In addition to notices sent by e-mail, information about the workshops will be available on ANEM's website www.anem.org.rs .