Production and broadcasting of the A-media's TV series "Step by Step" has been completed. The series was done in cooperation with ANEM and with the support of the European Union.

The series of 73 stories in 24 TV magazines was produced with the aim to contribute to promotion of European values and standards. Once a week, audience of 25 regional and local ANEM TV stations was provided with an opportunity to see examples of positive changes in Serbia that directly made the citizens' lives better, with a clear liaison between these changes and the application of the European standards, while the topics dealt with in the series were selected from the areas recognized to be of the utmost interest to the citizens and in which they could easily recognize positive changes:

• Employment and protection at work
• Social protection and poverty reduction
• Health care
• Environmental protection
• Consumer protection
• Legal protection, protection of individuals and protection from discrimination
• Reform and strengthening of local self-government and behavior of local officials
• Regional development and cross-border cooperation

Each of 24 TV magazines contained 3 stories from three different places in the country, linked with one common topic. The magazines were premiered in the period from December 2010 until May 2011, on ANEM regional and local TV stations. Although the premier broadcasting on ANEM stations has ended, all 24 magazines could still be seen on YouTube, courtesy of A-media. Links to every magazine of the series could be found on ANEM website, under the Production/Step by Step, in the texts posted each month, announcing aired magazines in a given period.

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

For the last month of broadcasting, A-media in collaboration with ANEM has prepared the remaining three magazines of the series "Step by Step" that will be aired on 25 ANEM local and regional stations.  

In the first week of May, viewers across Serbia will be able to watch the twenty-second magazine of the TV series "Step by Step", containing three stories from three different places with a common topic - employment of vulnerable groups.   

We present the twenty-second magazine:

The first story is from Nis:

Slobodanka lives alone with her two children and has to think hard before spending every dinar.  She is a dentist, but  without a  permanent job.  As it does for  others in  a similar situation, the Association of Single Mothers helps Slobodanka reeducate and provide money for her family as soon as possible. 

The second story is from Belgrade:

Misa has hearing loss. He is working at an express delivery service firm. His employer, like any other employer in Serbia, is obliged to employ one person with disability for every 50 people  employed or, in case it fails to do it, to pay  a sum to the fund  for  stimulating the employment of people with disabilities.

The third story is from Novi Sad:

Natasa Baro is Production Director and Dejan Kapris Financial Director at the ADSP Crew Company. Like other employees of the company, they are students of the Technical School "Pavle Savić". The aim of establishing of student companies is helping young people learn how companies and market function and find a job later more easily.

TOPICS of remaining 2 TV Magazines for May: The twenty third magazine of the TV series "Step by Step" deals with the improvements in towns and municipalities thanks to the Exchange program and the topic of the final, twenty fourth magazine, is protection of consumers' rights.

In accordance with dynamics of their broadcasting, here you will also find the information on topics and short stories' contents of remaining two magazines - in attachments of the text.

You can watch magazines in May on the links bellow:

Magazine 22

Magazine 23

Magazine 24

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

During April 2011, 4 new magazines of the TV series "Step by Step" will be aired on ANEM local and regional TV stations across Serbia. They have been prepared by the production company A-media, in cooperation with ANEM.

Every week in April, the TV audience throughout Serbia will be able to watch each one of these magazines, each containing three stories from three different places with a common general topic on positive changes in our communities that make citizens' lives better, as a result of the implementation of the European standards and values.

The eighteenth magazine of the TV series "Step by Step", the first magazine aired in April, brings the stories of traditional crafts and association for the purpose of employment.

The first story comes from Blace

Ljubisa Nedeljkovic from the village Tulare is not worried with selling his milk, as the local dairy plant "Lazar" buys off all the milk his cows make. The dairy has also associated with other cheese and dairy producers and subcontractors - farmers into a cheese cluster "Jug" (South).

The second story is from Pester

Sarih Nurkovic's family from the village Delimedja makes a living by selling lambkin, milk and cheese. But, since the nineties, the sheep run in this traditional farmers' region has grown desolate, so the local organization "Merhamet" has initiated a circle distribution of sheep to households to help them start their cooperative society. This way, Sarih's sheep stock has been enlarged for 30 new animals.

The third story is from Indjija

Every day, Valentina Bojanic meets her four colleagues at her home, where they make a new line of traditionally decorated hand-made items. These women have been involved, through a local association, in the work of Ethno-network, an organization aiming to preserve cultural heritage and reduce unemployment rate.

TOPICS of other 3 TV Magazines for April: The nineteenth magazine deals with protection of citizens' rights; the topic of the twentieth magazine is the convergence of local self-governments to citizens' needs and for the twenty first magazine is environmental protection.

Information on topics and short summary of the remaining three April magazines will also be made available in attachments of this text, to be posted in line with the airing dynamics.

You can watch magazines in April on the links bellow:

Magazine 18

Magazine 19

Magazine 20

Magazine 21

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

In the fourth month of this series' broadcasting on ANEM stations across the Serbia four new magazines will be aired during March 2011. In cooperation with ANEM, A-Media Production Company prepared these magazines.

We present you the thirteenth "Step by Step" magazine, which is the first March magazine at the same time. Through three stories, this magazine deals with local and individual initiatives in the fight against poverty.

The first story is from Mol:

Kristina and Dusanka are excellent pupils. They live in state of bareness, as many children from this small place in Vojvodina. In their school, there is a day centre where they are provided with a special support for schooling and building positive attitudes.

The second story is from Knjazevac:

Nena and Boban Vucic have finished high school, while their youngest sister Vesna is still in school. The local centre for social work got them involved in the program "Halfway home", which provides help and support for facilitating their independent living.

The third story is from Belgrade:

Children who live and work on streets are exposed to great risks and forced to fight themselves for their existence. The first street paper in Serbia "Lice ulice" offered them a chance to earn money in a legal way and step out from social and cultural isolation.

TOPICS of other 4 TV Magazines for March: The topic of the fourteenth magazine is the new models that stimulate the employment of youth and socially endangered groups. The fifteenth magazine is dealing with better quality of life as a result of cross-border cooperation. The topic of the sixteenth magazine is the encouragement of better life of children and youth and the seventeenth magazine deals with the health protection by opting for better way of living.

In accordance with dynamics of their broadcasting, here you will also find the information on topics and short stories' contents of remaining three February magazines - in attachments of the text.

You can watch magazines in March on the links bellow:

Magazine 13

Magazine 14

Magazine 15

Magazine 16

Magazine 17

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

For the third month of this series' broadcasting, A-Media, in cooperation with ANEM, has prepared four new magazines to be broadcast during February 2011 on ANEM stations across the Serbia.

We present you the ninth "Step by Step" magazine, which is the first February magazine at the same time. Through three stories, this magazine deals with new concepts of care for children without parental care and with disabilities.

The first story comes from Kraljevo

Milos and his sister Marija, with another three children, lives in the house called "Blackberry". At the SOS children's village near Kraljevo, there are another 14 houses with as cute names as this one, where around hundred children without parental care from all parts of Serbia live and grow up with their SOS mothers in a real family atmosphere.

The second story is from Belgrade

Six years ago, Danijela, Marinko, Femka and Dragan were transferred from the Nursing Home for young people with difficulties into the four-room apartment where they now live. The program "Housing with assistance" has been launched in Serbia by the non-government sector, and is now becoming the regular service of the state social protection.

The third story is from Zrenjanin

Brothers David and Daniel Budar cannot walk on their own due to their illness and for years their world has been limited down to their family and their home. Since the Daily Care for disabled children and youth has been started, they spend their days excitedly with new friends.

TOPICS of other 3 TV Magazines for February: The topic of the tenth magazine is improved quality and greater accessibility to health services, the eleventh magazine treats the changes in local self-governments that influence the quality of life of citizens and the topic of the twelfth magazine is the use of recycling energy sources.

In accordance with dynamics of their broadcasting, here you will also find the information on topics and short stories' contents of remaining three February magazines - in attachments of the text.

You can watch magazines in February on the links bellow:

Magazine 09

Magazine 10

Magazine 11

Magazine 12

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

For the second month of this series' broadcasting, A-Media, in cooperation with ANEM, has prepared four new magazines to be broadcast during January 2011 on ANEM stations across the Serbia.

We present you the fifth "Step by Step" magazine, which is the first January magazine at the same time. Through three stories, this magazine treats the changes in local self-governments that meet the needs of citizens.

The first story is from Sjenica:

The Municipal Service Center enabled citizens to quickly get served, whereas only three years ago they were endlessly waiting at the counters, going from office to office, wasting time.

The second story is from Vrnjacka Banja:

How Nina Milosevic and her family are now able to calculate their water bills in advance, and how digital maps help workers of the Public Communal Company "Beli Izvor" (White Spring) to quickly detect failure of the water supply system and urgently repair a broken pipe.

The third story comes from Belgrade:

What parents, teachers and students of primary schools in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd think of video surveillance and electronic diaries, and how much has the curriculum of the third graders changed since they have received laptops?

TOPICS of other 3 TV Magazines for January: The topic of the sixth magazine is the elimination of obstacles for equal inclusion of persons with disabilities in the society, the seventh magazine treats the topic of cross-border cooperation as an opportunity to improve the life of citizens and the topic of the eighth magazine is related to new employment concepts and programs.

In accordance with dynamics of their broadcasting, here you will also find the information on topics and short stories' contents of remaining three January magazines - in attachments of the text.

You can watch magazines in January on the links bellow:

Magazine 05

Magazine 06

Magazine 07

Magazine 08

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

Broadcasting of TV magazines "Step by Step", prepared by A-Media in cooperation with ANEM, begins in December 2010 on 25 ANEM stations across Serbia!

For December, the first month of broadcasting, 4 out of 24 magazines of the TV series "Step by Step" have been prepared. Each contains three stories from three different places with a common general topic. All the stories show that there are those in Serbia who make their lives or the lives of people around them better, working and acting in accordance with European standards and values.

We present you the FIRST MAGAZINE:

Three stories from different cities, linked by the topic - employment, will show viewers throughout Serbia that positive change is possible in this area too, through an example of small and medium-sized companies that are growing by applying new knowledge.

In the first story from Belgrade you will see:

What made Sava Marinkovic, born and educated in the United States, to come to Serbia; how has a group of students set up their own enterprise; what was crucial to Aleksandar Cubrilo to return from Holland, where he had a great job at a prestigious company.

The second story comes from Kragujevac:

How a young English teacher Bojana Mikaric decided to quit her job at a public school to apply modern methods of teaching and why the architect Nikola Krivokuca and his colleagues decided to set up a bureau in their hometown.

The third story is from Arilje:

When the pests destroyed his raspberries, Ljubisa Milijanovic decided to embark on a new path and began to grow cultivated blueberries. Advice of experts help Ljubisa and other fruit growers in Arilje to reduce risk, increase crops and sell all their products on more and more selective markets.

TOPICS of other 3 TV Magazines for December: the second magazine brings the stories about how the application of European standards improves environmental protection in Serbia. The third magazine will deal with health prevention and the fourth with social care for the elderly.

In line with the dynamics of the broadcasting of magazines during December, a summary of stories for each of these three magazines will be available here, attached at the end of the text.

The series of TV magazines "Step by Step" will be aired for 6 months, in the period from December 2010 until May 2011, on 25 ANEM regional and local TV stations: RTV OK (Kovacica), TV Jedinstvo (Novi Pazar), RTV Caribrod (Dimitrovgrad), TV VK (Kikinda), TV Smederevo (Smederevo), TV Spektar (Sombor), RTV Kragujevac (Kragujevac), TV Prima (Bajina Basta), TV Soko (Sokobanja), TV Santos (Zrenjanin), TV Valjevo Plus (Valjevo), TV Alfa (Uzice), TV Novosadska (formerly TV Apolo, Novi Sad), TV Leskovac (Leskovac), TV Mlava (Petrovac on Mlava), TV B92 Info (Belgrade), TV Nezavisna 017 (Vranje), TV Pancevo (Pancevo), TV Timocka (Zajecar), TV YU Eco (Subotica), TV Sumadija (Arandjelovac) TV Trstenik (Trstenik), TV Krusevac (Krusevac), Niska TV (Nis), TV Cacak (Cacak).

You can watch magazines in December on the links bellow:

Magazine 01

Magazine 02

Magazine 03

Magazine 04

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

A-media, in cooperation with ANEM, is intensively preparing "Step by Step" -the series of TV magazines  that deal with Serbia's "taking steps" toward the European Union. On that road, Serbia is moving faster in one moment, slower in the next. Either way, the changes are just around the corner, in our cities, towns and municipalities, and examples of such changes are the substance of these magazines. Each of 24 TV magazines, planned to be produced in the series, will contain 3 stories from three different places in the country, connected with one mutual topic. The production of the series envisages the recordings in app. 20 towns in all parts of Serbia.The topics to be dealt with in the series are selected from the areas recognized to be of the utmost interest to the citizens and in which they could easily recognize positive changes:

- employment and protection at work

- social protection and fighting poverty

- health care

- environmental protection

- consumer protection

- legal protection, protection of individuals and protection from discrimination

- reform and strengthening of local self-government and behavior of local officials

- regional development and cross-border cooperation

The series of TV magazines about the examples of positive changes in Serbia that directly make the citizens' lives better,  with a clear liaison between these changes and the application of the European standards, will help citizens to easily perceive what does «the European way of Serbia» specifically means for them - not an opportunity to leave the country and go to any of the EU states where living is generally better, but primarily the possibility to improve their lives in their home country.

The series of TV magazines will be broadcast during the period of six months, from December 2010 until May 2011, one magazine a week, on ANEM TV stations across Serbia.

More details on the first 4 magazines to be broadcast in December on ANEM TV stations, available here soon!

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.

Most Serbian citizens usually they come across the issue of the European integration through information about the activities of the state, public institutions and officials, while they are less likely to see how their "ordinary" life is changing with the accession of Serbia to the European Union. Occasionally, they can see in the media the images from the EU member states; however, from the perspective of their harsh everyday life, these images often look like a goal too far. On the other hand, the many changes here, all around, that are the result of application of European standards and values, are almost imperceptible.

A-Media, in cooperation with ANEM, is preparing a series of TV programs "Step by Step" that will bring the stories from towns and villages - the examples of these small, but positive changes in Serbia that directly improve the lives of citizens and which represent the introduction of standards and values that apply in the European Union.

Citizens can easily recognize how, for example, an organized prevention in health care facilities can contribute to better health for all of us, how new employment programs can reduce the number of unemployed in Serbia, as well as how the care for the socially vulnerable or people with disabilities, the rights of women, children and minorities, can improve the whole society, and much more.

"Step by Step", the series of 24 TV magazines, with a total of 72 stories, will show examples of such positive changes, many of which are accomplished with the support and financial assistance of the European Union and its members, in the area of health care, environmental protection, employment and safety at work, social protection and fighting poverty, protection of citizens' rights and protection from discrimination, consumer protection, reform of local government and cross-border cooperation.

The airing of the TV series "Step by Step" begins in December 2010 on ANEM stations throughout Serbia.

This series is financially supported by the European Union through the European Integration Media fund, managed by the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Serbia and implemented by the BBC World Service Trust. Program content is solely the responsibility of A-media and it does not represent the views and stands of the European Union.