South East Europe Media Organisation - Meetings

Meetings

Between January 2000 and 2010 (October), SEEMO has assembled over 9,600 editors-in-chief, media executives, leading journalists and public persons from the region in various meetings. Some of these meetings, involving participants from Belgrade (Serbs) and Pristina (Kosovo-Albanians), were the first of their kind in history.

Between 2002 and 2004, SEEMO organised 14 dialogue meetings between editors-in-chief, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe.

In 2005, SEEMO organised the first meeting of private news agencies in SEE and a meeting of editors and media executives in Opatija, Croatia, in October, as also in Tirana, Albania, in November.

In 2006, SEEMO organised a regional conference of media representatives from SEE in Vienna, and initiated regular meetings of investigative reporters (first meeting in Opatija, June 2006).

SEEMO organised in 2006 and 2007 eight conferences-workshops for investigative journalists in different countries in SEE.

SEEMO organised several conferences for editors-in-chief and managers of minority media, like the Conference of editors-in-chief and managers of Roma media in South East and Central Europe in 2003 (with over 70 participants), Vlachian (Aromanian) media in Sofia (2004) and Tirana (2005), Minority media in SEE in Belgrade in 2007.

SEEMO organised in June 2008 the conference Media, Marketing and Business in Belgrade (Serbia). In December 2008 SEEMO organised the conference Public Broadcasting in South East Europe in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where general managers of the public services and the chairpersons of the boards of public services took part.

In May 2010, SEEMO organised the first South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days in Montenegro. The second South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days will take place in Serbia in May 2011, and the topic will be corruption and media. The third South, East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days should take place in Moldova, in April 2012.

SEEMO is organising with WAZ Medien Gruppe and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Stiftung) the South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF), as a meeting between journalists and political representatives. The first SEEMF was in Zagreb, Croatia in June 2007, with the participation of the Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and 200 journalists from South East and Central Europe. Second SEEMF was in Sofia, Bulgaria in November 2008, with the participation of the Bulgarian prime minister Sergej Stanishev and 250 journalists in South East and Central Europe. Since 2008 additional regular partner is the Raiffeisen International Bank from Vienna. The third SEEMF was in Tirana in November 2009, and the event was opened by the Albanian President Topi. The IV SEEMF took part, with the Central European Initiative (CEI) from Trieste as additional new regular partner, in Budapest on 2 and 3 December 2010. The V SEEMF will take place in Belgrade, Serbia in November 2011. More on www.seemf.org.

SEEMO founded in 2010 the International Media Center in Slovenia (IMC), together with several leading media representatives in Slovenia, and in cooperation with Prof. Thomas Bauer from the University of Vienna and Prof. Marko Milosavljevic from the University in Ljubljana. The Chairperson of the IMC is Mitja Mersol, the former editor-in-chief of the leading Slovenian daily Delo. More on www.imc-slo.org.

SEEMO also founded in 2010 the South, East and Central Europe PR Organisation (SECEPRO), as a sister regional organisation for PR experts in more than 20 countries of South, East and Central Europe, as also from Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy. The first SECEPRO meeting was in Ljubljana in May 2011 with leading PR representatives from the region. More on www.secepro.org.

2011 SEEMO started with the annual Istanbul Media Days, as a meeting of media experts from the region in Istanbul. More on www.istanbulmediadays.org. In 2012, SEEMO will start with Belgrade Media Days, as meeting of media experts from Former Yugoslavia in cooperation with University Singidunum in Belgrade and leading media from Serbia, as also Roma Media Days, an annual meeting of representatives from Roma media.