EBTICAR-Média 2015: pre-selection of 22 projects

In February 2015, with financial assistance from the European Union, CFI launched the second EBTICAR-Média call for projects aimed at supporting further development of online media in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

This second call follows in the wake of the first call, which was launched in 2014, after which 11 projects were selected. All 11 projects received funding of between EUR 35 000 and 75 000, and their progress is currently being monitored.

Within the context of this second call, CFI received 256 applications. Of those, 135 were eligible and were closely examined by a panel of judges composed of senior members of CFI and the latter's partners ( Babelmed, the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Samir Kassir Foundation), as well as the expert Laurent Giacobino.
The panel short-listed 22 projects and the final selection will be made in Beirut from 2 to 6 June 2015, as part of the series of events to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of the journalist Samir Kassir.

Al Dahriya Network for Community Media / Palestine
One Voice "Cooperation of Electronic Community Media in the Palestinian Territories"

Alhudood.net / Regional
Online Satire for an Online Generation

Alternatives pour un monde différent section la Tunisie / Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
Cyber-sécurité pour les acteurs des médias en Algérie, en Égypte et au Maroc

Bassita / Egypt
The Clickfunding

Enab Baladi / Syria
Syrian Publications Archive

Eskenderella for Arts Management / Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco
Fanar – the Electronic Platform for Independent Arts in North Africa

Gudran for Art and Development / Egypt
Tura al-Bahr

H2O for supporting democratic transition and engagement of youth / Libya
Eye on Municipality Platform

Information and Research Center - King Hussein Foundation / Jordan
Promoting Accurate and Unbiased Media Tools in Jordan

KnoozRoom / Lebanon
Invisible Cities

Libyan Center for Freedom of Press / Libya
Bilad Media Network

Mideast Youth / Regional
Mideast Tunes Radio

Multimedia Network / Palestine - Regional
Busmati

Naharnet operated by Telenahar SAL / Lebanon - Regional
LA7ZA

Pulse media / Morocco
Le desk (V.2)

Sakker El Dekkene / Lebanon
Sakkera through open data

SAMAR Media / Regional
SAMAR Media reaches out to its "Citizens"

SMEX & Partners / Regional
Enhancing the Muwaten Raqamy/Digital Citizen Newsletter

SyriaUntold / Syria
Cities in Revolution

Welad ElBalad Media LTD / Egypt
ElBalad Map

Two projectsin Algeriaand Syriawish to remain anonymous.

After that meeting, the best initiatives will once again be rewarded with mentoring by CFI and financial support of between EUR 30 to 60 000.

The EBTICAR-Média project is run by CFI in partnership with the Babelmed (Italy) Mediterranean portal, the Samir Kassir Foundation (Lebanon) and Anna Lindh Foundation (Egypt), together with technical support from Expertise France.
The EBTICAR-Média project is part of the " 4M, journalism and social media" programme that CFI has been running in the Arab countries, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Southeast Asia for the past three years, offering meetings, training courses, consultancy services and both technical and editorial mentoring to traditional online media or pure players.