Authored by Maria Donde, EPRA Senior Vice-Chair & EMIL coordinator On 4 November 2022, Europe’s media regulators met to mark Global MIL week with a dedicated thematic session: Trust and News: (how) does News and Information Literacy work? The event was jointly organised by the EU expert group ERGA, and EMIL – the European network that brings together
Taking place from 24 to 28 October 2022 in alignment with the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2022, The European Media Literacy Week 2022 is an initiative by the European Commission to underline the societal importance of media literacy and highlight existing media literacy initiatives and projects across the EU. Media literacy stakeholders, in particular those
How do you know what’s real or fake online? That is the question that Trend Micro Ireland want young people to answer in a two minute video as the annual youth video competition ‘What’s Your Story?’ is launched. The competition now in its 11th successful year in Ireland, invites young people to help solve a challenge that the
Festival goers will have the chance to experience a thought-provoking world cinema programme that spotlights youth issues and social issues, an extensive education programme, talent lab industry masterclasses, classic and brand-new family and teen films, the Cinemagic Young Filmmaker weekend, and Film Jury panels for young film critics. In addition to film previews from all
Eight new media literacy projects have been awarded funding via the European Media and Information Fund – including a project involving MLI member FuJo.
Media literacy education has been recognised as an important role for public librarians, particularly in recent years as mis- and dis-information continue to spread through both traditional and digital information channels. However, public librarians are often not trained as media literacy educators, and must rely on self-directed learning to build these important skills. To help
This is a new, multi-year fund that is open to UK organisations undertaking media literacy activity that tackles the media literacy challenges in the Online Media Literacy Strategy. In year 1 of the Media Literacy Programme Fund, DCMS are inviting bids for projects that meet one or more of the following strategic priorities: 1) Vulnerable Users: Providing support
The role of the Advisory Panel is as follows: The Panel is a voluntary forum and membership is by Ofcom invitation, after a transparent recruitment process. Membership is initially for 24 months, and subject to a review by Ofcom, to reflect the priorities of the MSOM programme.