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Funding Opportunity: Open Call for Actions in Support of Fact-checking

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About EMIF: The European Media and Information Fund is established by the European University Institute and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and provides grants, on a competitive basis, to researchers, fact-checkers, not-for-profits and other public interest-oriented organisations working on disinformation research and strengthening media literacy and fact-checking. About the Fund: The EMIF is a multi-donor fund and welcomes contributions from donors believing

Funding Opportunity: Open Call for Innovation in AI and Media sectors

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About the Project: AI4Media is a 4 year long project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Motivated by the challenges, risks and opportunities that the wide use of AI brings to media, society and politics, AI4Media aspires to become a Centre of Excellence engaging a wide network of researchers across Europe

Media and Information Literacy: Lessons from interventions around the world

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There’s a lot of focus on media literacy evaluation at the moment. This briefing paper looks at evidence on the effectiveness of media and information literacy programmes around the world.

New resource for schools: EduMediaTest

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Schools have a new interactive tool to assess the media literacy skills of European pupils aged 14 to 18. The EduMediaTest evaluates pupils’ abilities in 7 areas related to media education, as well as providing teaching materials to work on any shortcomings detected. The resource is available in 10 different languages including English and as Gaeilge. Regarding pupil

Beware of the Bots! New study highlights role of bots in the #healthydiet discourse on Twitter

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By Aoife O’Reilly, Communications Manager – Digital and Health safefood Bots play a significant role in the healthy diet conversation on Twitter, a recent study conducted by The Irish Institute of Digital Business at Dublin City University, in conjunction with safefood, has found. 81% of the 100 most active users were bots-like accounts according to the study “Sorting the

In Case You Missed it. MIL and Libraries: On the frontline of the battle against misinformation

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By Martina Chapman, National Coordinator MLI Marian Higgins, the library representative on the MLI Steering Group, opened the webinar by pointing out how libraries are well known as providers of information, but libraries and library staff have always supported their users in learning and acquiring essential lifelong skills. These skills include information literacy (how to

New ‘Facts Matter’ Guide

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Launched on the 28th September 2021, ‘Facts Matter’ is an introductory guide for adult literacy and adult education practitioners who wish to build their students’ knowledge, understanding, skills and confidence in critical thinking, media and digital literacy. The guide also supports tutors to engage with what it means to live in an increasingly unequal world

Webwise launch new online safety programme for 1st and 2nd class

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Webwise, the Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre, will launch a new online safety programme designed for teachers of 1st and 2nd class on September 29th. With the prominence of the internet in children’s lives, and as they increasingly access it from an earlier age, online safety and digital citizenship has never been more important. Through