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AGORA 2002
Athens, Greece 15-18 June

The Annual Regional Mediterranean Summit

opportunities for investements and synergies
contact management@ectc.gr
Preliminary program at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/

In the heart of the Mediterranean basin AGORA becomes from this year an
Annual Mediterranean Summit and attracts children's media professionals,
policy makers and researchers in order to create a strong network of
synergies, co productions and common projects.
In the peak of its activities and maturity AGORA 2002 is the annual meeting
point of the Mediterranean children's audiovisual world with worldknown
professionals aiming to enhance the region's political and industrial
influence in the global landscape.

The Strategy Tower
Core nucleus of AGORA is the Mediterranean Observatory, a common event and
planning centre with worldknown personalities from audiovisual policy
makers to main broadcasters and producers. The Observatory monitors, reviews
and evaluates the production, promotion, research and training of children's
audiovisual activities of the region.It is an on going living organism which
can provide update information for the regions ctivities in children's media
and to create synergies and projects with transnational and global impact.
The first working day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the Mediterranean
Observatory.

Children's Fantasy first
AGORA cares mostly about children. Being conscious on the impact of
audiovisual media on children's upbringing AGORA proposes the Media Summer
School Project.
MSS is children's creativity pool. The young talent meets top professionals
of children's media and finds the language and technology to express, to
create and to succeed.
In the Giffoni Multimedia Valley, Italy, an environment of of learning,
experimenting and playing the children meet the creators of their heros and
discover ways to use the audiovisual language for their own creations and
constructions.
The third day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the Media Summer School Project
which will launch operations in 2004.

New Technologies in Media Literacy - I believe to know is to interact
This part-conference, part-hands-on-lab, to be held the third day of AGORA
2002, will bring together electronic media producers and e-content
programmers, researchers, digital artists, media tutors, media education
designers, psychologists and children; anyone who is involved in the making
of the future trends in media youth training and literacy.

Citius, Altius, Fortius
2004, Olympics return to their birthplace. Within the Olympic spirit of
competition aiming to global synergy The World Sports Expo will present
audiovisual works made for children and by children targeting in sports as a
social and cultural language.
It will offer behaviour examples showing youth's participation in sports
worldwide and illustarting the ways media creations influnce the youngsters'
s sport counscience.
The fourth of AGORA 2002 focuses in the World Sports Expo for Youth which
will be launched in 2004 in Greece for a period of 4 months.

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POSTER SESSIONS
WORKSHOPS
NETWORKS OF COLLABORATION MEETINGS
SCREENINGS
CLOSED MEETINGS
FESTIVAL TRIBUTES

opportunities for investements and synergies
contact management@ectc.gr
Preliminary program at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/