09:15 – 09:45    Local registration 

09:30 – 10:00    Welcome in  Fažana (by Berislav Jelinić, National weekly Editor-in-Chief  and by Ognian Zlatev, Head of European Commission Office in Croatia) 

09:45 – 10:00    Welcome in Belgrade (by Milorad Ivanovic, BIRN Serbia), Podgorica, Sarajevo (by Maida Muminović, Media Centar Sarajevo), Sofia (by H.E. Mr. Christoph Eichhorn, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bulgaria) , Tirana (by Lutfi Dervishi, Journalist,  RTSH)  and Trieste 

10:00 – 10:15    Live Stream Start: Opening

• – Oliver Vujović, Secretary General, South East Europe Media Organisation
• – Hendrik Sittig, Head, Media Programme SEE, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
• – Nina Kodelja, Deputy Secretary General, Central European Initiative

10:15 – 11:30 Panel I: TRUST ME, I AM A JOURNALIST (reliability in the infodemic, challenges during the pandemic, disinformation)

• – Cecilia Anesi, Investigative Journalist and Board Member of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), Rome
• – Andon Baltakov, Director General, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Sofia
• – Milorad Ivanović, Editor-in-Chief, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Serbia, Belgrade
• – Mihailo Jovović, Editor-at-Large, Vjiesti, Podgorica

Moderator: Maja Sever, Journalist, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), Zagreb

11:30 – 12:00    Coffee Break 

12:00 – 13:15 Panel II: I WILL SURVIVE (financial struggles, restructuring, alternative digital formats and new partnerships) 

• – Jovana Gligorijević, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Vreme weekly, Belgrade
• – Alfred Lela, Editor-in-Chief, Politiko.al, Tirana
• – Francesco Martino, Correspondent for Transeuropa Observatory on the Balkans and Caucasus (OBCТ), Sofia
• – Nadja Podobnik, Correspondents Editor, Slovenian News Agency STA, Ljubljana

Moderator: Ali Aslan, International TV Host, Moderator and Journalist, Berlin 

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch 

14:15 – 14:30  Key Note: Noel Curran, EBU Director General, Geneva 

14:30 – 15:45 Panel III: WE ARE YOUNG (how to attract young audiences, strategies for public service media, targeted content for millennials)

• – Lorik Arifaj, Programme Director, RTK, Pristina
• – Petar Karaboev, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Dnevnik, Sofia
• – Ivan Lovreček, Managing Director, Videoclick, Zagreb
• – Felicia Reinstädt, Head of Bremen NEXT, Radio Bremen

Moderator: Maida Muminović, Executive Director, Mediacentar Sarajevo

15:45 – 16:00  Presentation of the CEI/SEEMO Investigative Journalism Award – Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2020 by Barbra Fabro, Senior Executive Officer, Central European Initiative (CEI), Trieste to Cecilia Anesi, investigative reporter at IrpiMedia, Natalija Jovanović, investigative reporter at BIRN and to Esmeralda Keta from Top Channel, Albania.

16:00 – 16:15   Closing remarks