The BaKaFORUM is being organized by the International Basel-Karlsruhe Media-Forum Foundation, established in December 2005 by Swiss Television and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
The Foundation is committed to foster television and other audiovisual media for global education, in terms of exchange and cooperation. It supports themes of global development, poverty, human security and the millennium development goals in those media.
Within the BaKaFORUM, the Foundation supports the integration of partners from developing and transition countries and their programme production. It supports co-production between the partners, in favour of developing and transition countries in particular.