(uniquement en anglais) 

The Boundless Media Contest, honouring cultural diversity and cross-border journalism, aims to improve the professional interplay and exchange of experiences of young journalists from different cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean region and the area of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The winners of the competition will participate in the Young Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Intercultural Journalism that will initiate its international six week training programme in 2008. In seminars and practical workshops in Cologne, Germany, the winners will meet media experts from different countries and gain valuable intercultural and journalistic qualifications. Traineeships at broadcasting corporations in the area of the European Broadcasting Union and the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM) will offer further professional and personal experiences for the winners of the competition.

Frans Jennekens (NPS) (pictured right) at the 2nd Asia-Pacific and Europe Media Dialogue informing the meeting of the "Boundless" Cultural Diversity Media Award. Frans Jennekens is also chairman of the EBU's Intercultural and Diversity Group.

The Boundless Media Contest and the Young Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Intercultural Journalism are a joint initiative of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), the EBU, the COPEAM, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France Télévisions, Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF).

The target group of the Boundless competition is television and multimedia productions in the category Information – with the focus on reports, features, and documentaries – that deal with the dialogue of the cultures in the Euro-Mediterranean area and/or the area of the EBU and COPEAM, and

• discuss and present cultural diversity as a social resource
• promote greater openness and interchange between the different cultures, showing both conflicts and solutions
• show the realities of people with immigration background, their daily life and their contribution to society. 

The call for candidates has already published and the closing date for submitting applications is September 30, 2007. 

For more information, click here.