Irena Joveva MEP will attend the 18th International Conference of the Bled Strategic Forum, which this year is entitled “Solidarity for Global Security”. They will seek to answer questions on the current insecurity and lack of security in the international geostrategic community, as well as on future global challenges. The conference will take place on 28-29 August 2023 in Bled.

We live in a world shaped by polycrises, which permeate every pore of our societies and cut into institutionalised and organised life in the 21st century. How will we ensure security in these times? How will we ensure secure access to food and energy? How will we cope with all this without going against the values we take for granted and against human rights and fundamental freedoms?

Identity on the Line (I-ON) is a large-scale collaborative project co-funded by the European Union and implemented between 2019 and 2023 by six cultural history museums and one university from seven European countries. Its aim was to explore the long-term consequences of traumatic experiences following war, forced migration and the search for a new life and identity in a foreign land. The project examined how these experiences also shape the lives of second and third generation migrants.

The findings of the project have been summarised in publications, a joint travelling exhibition that has toured Europe, and now in the form of a series of recommendations for decision-makers.

MEP Irena Joveva will participate in the second part of the day-long event with a video address, as part of a roundtable with decision-makers, where stakeholders will discuss the findings and recommendations of the I-ON project.

On Thursday, January 12, 2023, MEP Irena Joveva will take part in the voluntary work of teaching the Slovenian language to Ukrainian men and women in Slovenia, namely at Slovenian Philanthropy.

It is the “MEP Job Shadowing” project, through which a member of parliament and a volunteer symbolically switch jobs for one day, or, more precisely, help each other at work.

The “MEP Job Shadowing” program is part of the “Citizen Engagement for Recovering – Volunteering Solidarity” (CERVIS) project, which is co-financed by the European Commission through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program.

On Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 9 a.m., we are preparing an interactive discussion with students about media freedom in the EU.

The main thread of the event will be the upcoming European Media Freedom Act (MFA), where speakers will first present the act, followed by an interactive workshop for students.

Participants in the event will be:

• MEP Irena Joveva
• Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko
• Lenart J. Kučić, media adviser to the Minister of Culture
• dr. Marko Milosavljević, Chair of Journalism, FDV

When presenting the act, the speakers will focus on why we need this act, what it brings and what it means for Slovenia and media freedom throughout the European Union, as well as how to enable independent and objective media that people trust. The discussion will also be interesting from the point of view of the outcome of the referendum on RTV. This part of the event is expected to last just under an hour.

In the interactive workshop, the students will be assigned tasks in groups, where their goal will be to analyze the aforementioned act and find solutions and compromises that would ensure an adequate solution to the issue of media freedom. At the end, they will briefly present their ideas as a group, followed by closing comments.

Warmly welcome.

On Thursday, November 17 2022, at 5 pm the office of MEP Irene Joveva and MEP Klemen Grošelj are organising an event The Liberation Front for Media and Democracy: The Importance and Impact of the European Media Freedom Act, where we will talk about the area of ​​media freedom in the European Union and Slovenia – is it under threat, what is the status of public media in today’s society and how to ensure the independence of the media area both in Slovenia and in the EU.

Among other things, we will also talk about the upcoming European media freedom act (Media Freedom Act – MFA), which represents a new set of rules to protect pluralism and media independence in the EU. The MFA is a proposal by the European Commission to strengthen the internal media market with an aim that the media – public and private – could more easily operate across borders in the EU internal market, without undue pressure and taking into account the digital transformation of the media space.

The guests of the roundtable will be:

• Tone Hočevar, former journalist, editor and TV presenter,
• Ksenija Horvat, journalist,
• Tanja Kerševan Smokvina, research associate at FDV and former secretary at the Ministry of Culture and
• Blaž Petkovič, journalist and assistant at FDV.

For all those who will not be able to attend the event live, we will enable virtual monitoring with direct transmission on the MeP’s FB channel.

Warmly welcome!