Online/More Colour in the Media (MCM) – Netherlands

Online/More Colour in the Media is a network of NGO's, broadcasters, training institutes and researchers, set up to make the European media more diverse both in terms of access to media jobs and portrayal of minorities.  

The Online/More Colour in the Media network was established in 1997. Since then, it has initiated and co-ordinated projects and networks in the fields of

• employment and training,
• intercultural media education and career orientation,
• programme exchange,
• support of minority media,
• empowerment of minority audiences
• research

Project activities are supervised by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Online/More Colour in the Media. 

Activities of Online/More Colour in the Media are supported, between the others, by: the European Commission (DG Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs and DG Education and Culture), the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Education and Culture, the Council of Europe. 

Online/More Colour in the Media
Postbus 672
3500 AR Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 30 239 9035
Fax. +31 30 230 2975
info@olmcm.org www.olmcm.org

OL/MCM is currently working on three main themes:

• The European Week of Media and Minorities, an annual event bringing together producers and audiences to promote cultural diversity in the media. Since 2004, a wide range of events has been taking place in the same week in dozen of countries to promote the public dialogue about the representation of minority groups and to empower minority audiences.
• The European Centre of Information and Expertise on Media, Diversity and Society to serve as a helpdesk for media and minority organisations and facilitate European project development.
• A Diversity Chart on which the European Public Broadcasters will commit.

Online/More Colour in the Media is also involved in several transnational projects:

• Co-ordination of three European partnerships of national project partnerships funded by the EU Equal budget line.

Tuning into Diversity 2004: a major European Conference on Media and Minorities

In the framework of the European EquaMedia partnership, Online/More Colour in the Media and the Dutch NGO Mira Media organised eleven transnational round tables in 2003 and 2004 with a large number of stakeholders in the European media industry. On the basis of these round tables, a "Toolkit" for future developments was drafted for use by change agents in the media sector. The process culminated with a September 2004 European conference in the Netherlands, which brought together over 200 representatives of the different media industry sectors from across Europe and beyond: Tuning in to Diversity 2004.

The Online/More Colour in the Media website

www.olmcm.org gathers information on Online/More Colour in the Media current and past projects, news and resources on media and minorities, links with relevant websites, examples of good practice, events, researches, funding opportunities and other.
 

Past Online/More Colour in the Media projects:

• Research: “Tuning in to Diversity”
• Research: “More Colour in the Media”
• Employment: “More Diversity in the Media”
• Education: Career Orientation – “The TV Files”
• Education: Face 2 Face
• Programming: TV Exchange of Multicultural Programmes
• Empowerment: European Manifesto for Minority Community Media
• Empowerment: European Day of Media Monitoring
• Education: CREAM (Creative Media Education)
• Education: LOG in the Media

How to join the Online/More Colour in the Media network

NGOs and other minority organisations, training and research institutions, vocational orientation and media education institutes, broadcasters and editors interested in the themes and activities of Online/More Colour in the Media can contact:

Online/More Colour in the Media
Postbus 672
3500 AR Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 30 239 9035
Fax. +31 30 230 2975
info@olmcm.org www.olmcm.org