SouthMed WiA

In the next two years CUMEDIAE (Culture & Media Agency Europe) will be involved in promoting gender equality and cultural diversity in the Southern-Mediterranean region by enhancing the image of woman in the broadcasting and cinema sectors. This EU-funded initiative has seven target countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia) and will be executed together with the following partners: Interarts (Project leader, Spain), COPEAM (Italy), ESAC-École Supérieure de l'Audiovisuel et du Cinéma de Gammarth (Tunisia), SIB- Screen Institute Beirut Association (Lebanon) and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (as an associated partner).

Culture Agora

Following its mission to support collaboration in arts and to promote cultural organizations in Europe and beyond, CUMEDIAE has established a free-accessible wiki platform Culture Agora. Culture Agora is a premium, easy-to-use, online meeting place for cultural organizations, professionals and many others interested in the arts and the creative sector. It facilitates the visibility of online content related to culture and offers a free efficient online tool for cultural professionals to identify the content of their interest.

Visa For Music

CUMEDIAE offered its communication capabilities to the Visa for Music 2015, the most important professional market of Africa and Middle-East music, settled in Rabat (Morocco). We became its solid European Media Partner, and we built a communication strategy at the service of the market and each of its activities, mostly developed through Culture Agora and social networks.

Media Literacy

The Commission offered a contract to provide European scale expertise to identify and analyze the real situation regarding the use of audiovisual content in European schools, as well as the applicable legal framework and the opinions of the industry. The report had to include a complex presentation of best practices in the matter across the 28 Member States and some of its neighbors. WE coordinated a consortium with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the European Think Tank on Film and Film Policy, The European Association of Teachers, and a respected researcher from London’s Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institution’s Network. The resulting study is still the object of analysis among experts across the continent.

Art Evaluation in Parliament

The “valorization of the European Parliament Art Collection” was a contract awarded by the European Parliament, who was in need of an expert assessment of its own art collection with the aim not only of evaluating its current artistic value, but also of developing a short-term and long-term strategy for its best management, curatorship and communication to the European citizens. CUMEDIAE put together and lead a highly qualified consortium of experts (with Spanish partners Expo Actual and Around Art), which resulted in an excellent report to the full satisfaction of the Parliament, with its results still in full implementation.

Mozambique

Cumediae has participated in a project funded by the EU Funded program ACP Cultures+, with the objective to develop and consolidate a viable and sustainable cultural industries in Mozambique, by reinforcing their contribution to social and economic development in technical support of the Government of Mozambique. Working along with the country’s Ministry of Culture and BASA (Business & Art South Africa), CUMEDIAE contributed with studies on the situation of copyright, the legal framework for private funding of culture, and the legal statute of artists.