Within EU funded project on “Promote Professional and Responsible Journalism by Supporting Regional Network of Self-regulatory Bodies” the Council of Europe (CoE) will hold the Annual Meeting of Regional Network of Self-regulatory Bodies on 2-3 March at the Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel in Chisinau. The event will be attended by the representatives of the self-regulatory bodies from the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and the Russian Federation.

During the annual meeting the representatives of the EaP self-regulatory bodies will present the main findings of their activities and review the challenges existing in their relevant media field. The problems related with the media coverage of the internally displaced persons, refugees as well as the experience of media monitoring gained during the last pre-elections campaign will be actively discussed by the media professionals. Finally, the participants will elaborate the suggestions how to promote the newly established cross border complaint mechanism which was designed to encounter media propaganda.

The event is organised within the framework of the joint CoE/EU Program “EU/CoE Joint Project Promote Professional and Responsible Journalism by Supporting Regional Network of Self-regulatory Bodies”. The project was launched in January 2015 and aims to establish regional co-operation among media self-regulatory bodies from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, to ensure regular exchange of information and experience among the self-regulatory bodies in order to improve their visibility, relevance and effectiveness as well as to improve cross-border complaints mechanism pertaining to journalistic ethics and to ensure self-sustainable funding for the regional network of medial self-regulatory bodies.