ALMA MATER TV

National Student Televison Alma Mater, Sofia

National bulgarian student television Alma mater is youth television for culture, education and youth policies with a status of “national public television” in Bulgaria.It started with student tv shows on Bulgarian national television- BNT1.By this moment Alma mater Tv has three lines : “Atellier” -student show for art and culture, “ProActive” – student show for education and science and Ku-Ku Reloaded – satiric student show. Alma mater Tv has it’s own webTv www.amtv.bg and creates every week different types of videoclips on subjects which ingage young people and students.

National bulgarian student television Alma mater developed an extensive partnership with many university television stations worldwide. Alma mater Tv is curently working on a TV project “Establishment and development of European student network TV” within “Youth in Action” program of the European Commission. This project envisages the creation of the Satelite Tv Program and Internet media platform on which to upload media content created by students around the world.

Another winning project is AMTV “National Multimedia University Center” under the Operational Programme “Human Resources”, which provides equipment for the AMTV.

In 2011 AMTV apply to Unesco with project for “International Youth audiovisual production center” based in Sofia and Paris.

European Student Television Network


The project Development of European Student Television Network is aimed at designing a web-based platform for the exchange of media contents amongst university televisions in Europe, with headquarters in Sofia. Through the activities, planned in the project, the participants will not only further develop European student TV network, but will create and film together two programmes in the two partnering countries, as the base initiative for mutual work and establishment of long-lasting partnership. The European Student Television Network was successfully created in the last year with our partners from the University of Journalism in Paris, the University of Journalism in Lille (France) and the “Mass Media Communications” Department of the New Bulgarian University, and now is time to further its development through our new partnerships in the UK.
Leading organization of the Project yet again is the National Student Television “Alma Mater” to the Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, and Project partners are: Brooks Student Television from Oxford Brooks University, Leeds Student Television from Leeds University Union and the “Mass Media Communications” Department of the New Bulgarian University. Twenty five young people will directly participate in the realization of the multicultural programmes, while the web-based television network will be accessible for use to thousands of young people in Europe and around the world.
The duration of the Project is nine months and during this period the main goal of this project is to present the diverse dimensions of youth life in the two countries. It will acquaint the participants and their viewers with their way and standard of life, with creative work opportunities, with their ideas for development in contemporary civil society in the context of the European Union. The duration of the multicultural programmess will be 27 minutes each and will reach the greatest possible audience since it will be translated in English and uploaded on the European Student Television Platform, as well is will be broadcasted on the Bulgarian National Television, the Student Televisions of Leeds TV and Brooks TV, Oxford and will be proposed to the youth direction of BBC.

Project Sofia-Paris 2010
The Tv shows are made by student teams from Sofia University “St.Kliment Ohridski-Sofia,Bulgaria, ESJ-Paris,France and ESJ-Lille,France in locations in Sofia and Paris:



ETHNOS & LOGOS film

Ethнос and logos / 2010 / 24 min / Audio: Bulgarian. The film is made ​​by National student television  “Alma mater “, Academic Ethnological Society, Student Council of University and Anamnesis  on the occasion of 30 years anniversary of Ethnology Department of Sofia University. The main  idea of the film is to create a bridge  between the past and future of the specialty and to show through the the eyes of students ethnologists the opening of the school year .