Experts analyseren Europese en Latijns Amerikaanse audiovisuele industrie (en)

Met dank overgenomen van Spaans voorzitterschap Europese Unie 1e helft 2010 i, gepubliceerd op dinsdag 11 mei 2010.

The Association of Latin American Educational and Cultural Television Networks and the Andalusian regional radio and television network, Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA) are holding a professional forum in Seville to analyse the audiovisual industry as an educational and cultural tool.The conference forms part of the agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the EU.

During the course of the day on 12 May, the headquarters of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation in Seville will receive numerous representatives of the main educational and cultural television production companies and broadcasters in Europe and Latin America.

Television as a means of asserting freedom and cultural diversity is the starting point of a conference which reflects UNESCO's recommendations within the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which encourage the co-production and broadcasting of educational and cultural content.

The conference brings together the main educational and cultural television production companies and broadcasters in Europe and Latin America, which in most cases is each country or region's public television company.

In the 20 countries of Latin America, the public television companies have an audience of around 550 million viewers, while 500 million people watch European public channels; therefore, the agreements reached at the conference will affect one billion users.

Notable among the aims of the conference are promoting cultural diversity in European and Latin American societies, adopting permanent mechanisms for cooperation and exchange in the field of technological convergence, implementing co-production projects of an educational and cultural nature, and training and updating professional skills, among others.

Immediately after this conference, on 13 and 14 May, Seville is also hosting the 7th General Assembly of the Association of Latin American Educational and Cultural Television Networks, at which cooperation in the field of media-based literacy teaching as a means of boosting civic participation in public life will be discussed.