Organizer: Acces Info Center Moldova

Date: Between 22nd and 28th September 2008

22 September

Annual Conference "Access to information: legislation, reality, prospects". Handing of "Bronze Bell" Prizes - for consistency and courage in promotion of free access to information, awarded yearly by "Acces-info" Center

"Acces-info" Center, Government of the Republic of Moldova, Open Society Institute (Budapest), "Soros-Moldova" Foundation

At 9.00, "Codru" Hotel, Conference hall

23 September

Roundtable. Debates on new Draft Law on State Secret

"Acces-info" Center, with support of Open Society Institute (Budapest), "Soros-Moldova" Foundation

23-24 September

Conference "National and European ethics standards in the audiovisual field"

Council of Europe and Association of Electronic Press "APEL"

At 9.30, Canteen of Government

24-25 September

Seminar "Aspects of improvement of cooperation between public institutions - media - NGOs"

Council of Europe, "Acces-info" Center, Government of the Republic of Moldova

At 10.00, Canteen of Government Apparatus (79, Mateevici str.)

25-26 September

Seminar "Freedom of meetings as means to exercise the right to freedom of expression" (In the frame of a cycle of zonal seminars organised for representatives of local public authorities, Police Commissariats and NGOs)

"Acces-info" Center, Promo-Lex, CReDO, Center for Human Rights (Causeni)

At 10.00, Center for Human Rights (Causeni)

26 September

Conference "Relations between press and state authorities - towards transparency and accountability"

Independent Journalism Center, with support of Eurasia Foundation in Moldova, with financial resources of USAID and Sida/Asdi

At 10.00, "Codru" Hotel

26 September

Meeting of Investigative Journalists' Club "Protection of private data and protection of journalists"

Center for Journalistic Investigations

This meeting is one of the activities in the frame of project "Journalists against corruption", part of Strengthening Civil Society Monitoring Capacity in Moldova (SCSMCM) Program, funded by the U.S. Government through the Millennium Challenge Corporation and managed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), within the framework of the Threshold Country Program for Moldova, component II. The SCSMCM is implemented by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), with technical support from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX).

At 14.00, Conferences hall of NATO (Banulescu-Bodoni str.)

26 September

Launching of project "Ask about the public money" - monitoring of public budgets

Association of Independent Press, with support of "Soros-Moldova" Foundation

At 10.00, "Infotag" Agency

26-27 September

Seminar for journalists and students from Journalism Faculties "The legal size of journalistic investigations on corruption cases"

Center for Analysis and Prevention of Corruption (CAPC) and Association of Independent Press

At 10.00, Canteen of Government Apparatus

26-28 September

Training for journalists writing on juridical themes

"Acces-info" Center, with support of Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights

"Odiseu" Complex, Vadul-lui-Voda

In district centres and other localities - district conferences, roundtables, debates, consultations, exhibitions, organised by District Councils, NGOs, libraries, media, with support of  "Acces-info" Center and "Soros-Moldova" Foundation.