Ledra Palace Hotel grounds, Markou Drakou
P.O. Box 24359
1102 Nicosia
Cyprus
- Media
MISSION: Empowering a media literate and active society. VISION: Realising that Community Media are vital phenomena for freedom of expression and information, cultural exchange and dialogue; and that a plurality of cultures and traditions lead to a diversity of forms of community media. CCMC aims to establish community media in Cyprus and support local organisations and community groups in communicating their message to a wider audience. It does this in many different ways, whether it’s training, dedicated support, equipment loan, creating videos, taking photographs, holding public events, setting up online forums or just offering advice to its members.
CCMC continues to work on projects with a vast number of partners across Europe that deal with issues of human rights, peace and reconciliation, media literacy and community media. Most recently, CCMC has been the lead in a two year, EU funded project dealing with LGBTI issues in the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus. CCMC has also just begun another two year EU funded project with a group of prestigious partners across Europe, tackling online hate speech against refugees and migrants. Additionally, CCMC continues to host its successful web radio station, MYCYradio.eu, a community radio station based in the Nicosia buffer zone that aims to reach out to all communities across Cyprus, offering a platform and the tools for people’s voices to be heard. This has been successfully running since 2013 and continues to attract individuals from different backgrounds to host their own radio shows, on any topic, in any language.
Amongst this, CCMC continues to facilitate media collaboration across the Cyprus divide; promotes community media in Cyprus; builds civil society's media skill sets as well as works with local authorities and academic institutions to promote media literacy.
CCMC is active in many of the fields supported by the ALF. We are confident we can contribute to the debate, discussion, and diversity of perspectives at a strategic level within the network itself and with other members of the network of issues such as: the potential for media to contribute to intercultural dialogue; exchange of best practice in promoting media collaboration across divided societies; and the benefits of community media for a pluralism of voices within democratic systems. We are also open to contributing to the development of media and communication skills for network members.
CCMC believes in, and wishes to support, the work of the ALF in Cyprus and the wider Euro-Med region. Through its participation in the ALF Network, CCMC aims to broaden its contacts base and utilise the opportunity to network with organisations in the region. CCMC aims to identify project partners active in the same fields and sharing the same goals in order to join project applications in the future.