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• workshops

  Delmenhorst September 2008
  
  
  The latest PLUS meeting was held in Delmenhorst in September 2008 at the Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg, a research centre run by the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen which co-funded the meeting. The participants decided about project organization and management, finance plans, dissemination and implementation. Thematic work groups developed work packages, thematic questions and methodology of the research. The next meeting will be held to plan a second book publication irrespective of the EC decision on funding the project.

  Wilhelmshaven April 2008
  
  
  The third workshop in Wilhelmshaven in April 2008 concentrated on planning the research project including research questions and methods, work packages and financial planning. The index of press freedom and pluralism was further developed including the matrix of production, service and participation.

  Brussels September 2007

  
  The second workshop was held in Brussels in September 2007 to be able to gather more information on FP-7 and the preparatory work from Brussels-based experts. The workshop was hosted by the German Koordinierungsstelle EG der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (KoWi). The presentations concentrated on special aspects of press freedom and pluralism like online journalism, technological changes, journalistic professionalization, ownership rules, media concentration and its effects, self-regulation and critical and pluralistic reporting. The group discussed independence of journalism and its structural prerequisites initiated by a presentation by Ides Debruyne from the Fonds Pascal Decroos for bijzondere journalistiek which supports investigative journalism.

  Wilhelmshaven February 2007
  
  
  During the first PLUS workshop in Wilhelmshaven in February 2007 the consortium met for the first time to discuss current problems of press freedom and pluralism and to form a project group. The first day was marked by presentations of the participants on the situation in their respective countries and on current research results. It turned out that, although the media systems differ, there are common problems which can only be solved on a European scale. On the second day the participants agreed on a common basis for a collaborative research project within FP-7 and signed a letter of intent.