The European Commission - Representation in Italy


EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY
EU integration in the cross-media Public Service perspective

An initiative of Infocivica – the Turin Workgroup for the European Conference on

PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
IN THE SOCIETY OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE

 

2. Date and place of the Conference: Brussels - Turin - Rome, November 2012

The European Conference will be held in November 2012 in conjunction with the 65th edition of the Prix Italia, in close collaboration with the initiatives promoted in 2011 for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy and as a continuation of this celebration.

The celebration of this anniversary should be seen as an opportunity for deepening the mission of information and civic education assigned to the new public service media in order to ensure a sense of common identity and social cohesion of the Italian nation as a community within the European Union.

Institutional support

This has been requested from:


• the European Commission EU Commission;

• the Council of Europe - European Audiovisual Observatory;

• the European Parliament;

• the President of the Italian Republic;

• the Italian Ministry of Cultural Goods;

• the Ministry of Economic Development - Deputy Minister for Communications;

• the Piedmont Region;

• the Province of Turin;

• the City of Turin;

• the Parliamentary Committee of monitoring and orientation of radio and television broadcasting activities;

• the Regional Committee for Communications of Piedmont.