Via Posidonio, 56
00176 Rome
Italie
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
Born from the union of community radio journalists, Echis promotes projects with the aim of facilitating rights access, opposing and preventing discrimination and stigma, promoting diversity. The association works for an active participation of people and communities in the civil society.
Echis wants to collect and tell stories, follow the memory's paths to take back our present, lift carpets to discover the realities hidden underneath, and then give back to listeners the words of the people we met and our investigations' results.
With the aim of empowering communities, Echis organizes trainings and workshops that provide media and story-telling skills and let participants explore their own narrative potential through non-formal education techniques. Our workshops are a way to let people tell their own stories and points of view on reality. From radio writing to audio editing skills; from live broadcasting to audio-reportage productions, from sound techniques to the management and organization of a radio station (web or fm) our workshops aim at making the participants active actors of communication and information.
Echis also produces audio-documentaries, radio programmes and journalistic reportages .
We work with several associations and realities collaborating in projects dealing with migration and/or rights awareness (MEDU, Laboratorio 53, Servizio Civile Internazionale, Casa Scalabrini 634, Radio Ghetto); Disabilities (Asperger pride; Gruppo Asperger Lazio) Education and School (Altra Mente; Archivio Memorie Migranti); Media (AMISnet; Quotidiano Sostenibile; Confronti).
Echis is a newborn association, with already a lot of successful projects behind it, realized thanks to our partners and donors.
Echis can contribute to this network with its strong experience in media and specifically the radio sector.
Our members have been working in this field for years, producing audio-documentaries, journalistic reportages and radio programmes.
As individual members, our team can count on a diverse ensemble of experiences realized both in Italy and abroad, ranging from radio trainings and workshops, research in migration issues, audio productions and reportages on crucial social issues and sound-designing experimentations.
Becoming members of ALF Italy could be a great opportunity for Echis to share good practices and work with other partners. We consider essential to build international networks and long-lasting relationships that could allow us to learn from other methodologies and ideas, expanding our activity range.
Our aim is also to develope concrete projects in areas of common interest such as the active participation of people and communities in the civil society and the production of information content about issues often overlooked by mainstream media.
Moreover, as former members of AMISnet, the majority of ECHIS team has already worked in projects (Across the sea ; Through desert and sea; Bridges on Air) realized within the network and thanks to the collaboration of Anna Lindh Foundation. That is why we would like to start this fruitful cooperation again.