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MEDIActive Youth - Transcontinental Initiative

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 608458-EPP-1-2019-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 65,321 EUR

MEDIActive Youth - Transcontinental Initiative

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In a world where the role of media has been so great that a term ‘mediacracy’ (the rule of media) has been frequently used to describe it, the need for media literacy and media activism of young people and youth NGOs is apparent. That is the main topic of this project.AIMS1: Increasing the capacity of youth organisations/workers in the field of media literacy and media activism and fostering their active participation in society, as well as promoting intraregional, transregional and transcontinental cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 5 Programme and 5 Partner countries from the Balkans, Northern Europe and Latin America.2: Strengthening media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in the partner countries and on Europe–Latin America level.3: Create informational/media hub between Europe and LA in the field of youth policy that will improve the connections between these distant parts of the world.MAIN OBJECTIVES1. Strengthening human and IT resources of 11 youth NGOs in the field of media literacy and media activism;2. Creating multilingual OER on media literacy and media activism;3. Techically, visually and contentually improving the transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to the transcontinental level; 4. Establishing strong transcontinental cooperation among partner NGOs.ACTIVITIES1. Training course in media literacy and media activism The goal of the TC is to provide media literacy/activism skills for 33 youth workers from 11 partner NGOs. Participants will develop: technical competences, critical skills (understanding, interpreting and critical evaluation of media content) and practical skills (creating media contents; developing and using ICT tools for activities through the media). They will learn to create media content and a blog. Each partner organization will have its own blog with texts on youth policy and combating anti-democratic manifestations by the end of the TC. The participants will also learn to use social networks as vehicles for the media activism.Host: CDERLocation: Belgrade (Serbia)Duration: 18th-27th October, 2019Working language: English2. Creating educative content (OER):- advanced Moodle course on media literacy;- an Moodle course Media Skills for Engaged Youth.3. Improving (technically, visually, conceptually, by involving new contributors) a transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy and elevate it to transcontinental level as a media in which young people and youth workers from Europe and LA jointly publish their contributions. The e-Magazine becomes a unique place that informs the youth and wider public on youth policy, youth activism and democracy in both Europe and Latin America.PARTNERS: 11 youth NGOs from Europe and Latin America.PROJECT LEADER: CDER (RS)PROJECT DURATION: 14 months: 01/08/2019–30/09/2020The project capitalizes and additionally improves the results of the MEDIActive Youth project, implemented in 2015/16.

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