The different projects in Paris

IAME – International Association for Media Education (since 2017, IHECS, coordinator)

Created in 2017 at the initiative of IHECS, this international non-profit association launched its first activities in 2018. An affiliate campaign is under way.

It connects, as founding members, the main networks specialising in media literacy in France, Italy, Romania and Germany.

These main objectives are:

  • to educate all the actors and public entities involved with media literacy
  • to promote understanding and broaden support for the needs of citizens in terms of media literacy
  • to share and exchange resources, skills and knowledge among its members, but also with stakeholders
  • to encourage reflection and research, in particular by participating in European and international projects and studies relating to media literacy
  • to participate in relevant projects, networks, conferences and policy meetings supporting the practice of media literacy in regional, national and global policies
  • to promote the collective interests of its members towards policy makers, institutions and private partners

An inaugural summer school will be organised in July 2018 in LUCCA (Italy)Partners: Institut des hautes études en communication sociale - IHECS ASBL (Belgium) ; Associazione italiana per l’Educazione ai Media e alla Comunicazione – MED (Italy); Centre d’étude pour les jeunes et les médias (France) ; Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur – GMK (Germany) ; Média Animation (Belgium); Associata Mediawise Society (Romania)

Link to the project: https://iame.education

For more information, please contact: baptiste.campion@galilee.be

e-Media Education Lab  (2014-2017, Erasmus+, partner)

An innovative online resource centre for teacher trainers in media literacy. For three years, between September 2014 and June 2017, the European e-MEL project has helped to enhance the media literacy skills of teachers and achieved the following results:

  • A European Competence Framework that maps skills in media literacy and media literacy for teachers across Europe for teachers across Europe;
  • A catalogue of 10 training scenario descriptions that explore the media environment;
  • Experimentation with 10 training scenarios (in English) combining face-to-face training sessions and online training sessions with more than 350 trainers and future teachers;
  • The development of an e-Lab for media literacy trainers to enable them to implement and test innovative training strategies;
  • Project dissemination events in Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Finland and the United Kingdom) which aim to promote this online training tool and to educate trainers on the current issues relating to media literacy.

Partners: Media Animation asbl (Belgium); Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales – IHECS (Master en éducation aux médias) (Belgium) ; University of Tampere - Tampereen Yliopisto – UTA (Finland); Centre de Liaison de l’Enseignement et des Médias d’Information – CLEMI (France) ; Università degli Studi Firenze – UNIFI (Italy); Universidade do Minho (Portugal); UCL – Institute of Education (United Kingdom).
Project co-funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ programme (Strategic partnerships).
Link to the project: http://e-mediaeducationlab.eu/fr/
For more information, please contact: baptiste.campion@galilee.be