IAME – International Association for Media EducationIAME – 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