GetFacts Training Outline and Toolkit
EAVI is the expert partner in the "Get Your Facts Straight!" project coordinated by All Digital. Together with partners, we have developed a training programme for a 15h training course for 14-16 year old students and their parents and grand parents (5 hours for young people, 5 hours for adults, and then 5 hours mixed group). The course can be done both in schools, as well as in non-formal educational settings such as youth clubs, libraries, NGOs. The training course consists of 3 modules and a final assignment: Module 1: What is disinformation? Module [...]
EAVI at OFCOM’s Adult Media Literacy Event
London 13 July, 2018 EAVI was lucky enough to be invited to attend UK digital watchdog, Ofcom's annual Adults' Media literacy Event in London. The event began with presentations by Jessica Rees, who explained Ofcom's adult media literacy tracker when looking at the digital divide - namely, those who are online and those who are not. The clearest indicators were those not just relating to socioeconomic group, but also age. Older respondents were more likely to not use computers for anything at all, and the reason most often cited? "It's not for people like [...]
MyStory: Media, Migrants & Refugees
The #MyStory: Media, Migrants & Refugees project was an initiative to raise awareness, promote discussion and assist journalists, migrants and refugees and the organisations working with them, to contribute to improve the media narratives of displaced peoples in a fair way. The project (577396-CITIZ-1-2016-1-BE-CITIZ-CIV) was funded with the support of the European Union under the Programme "Europe for Citizens" Within the project we organised ten events in seven different countries. Our debates have been very well received including at the highest level at the European Parliament. Many quality videos have been produced and they are [...]
#MyStory Final Event. Media (Literacy) and Refugees.
The final event for the My Story Project took place in Brussels on 5 December 2017. The full-day event was divided into two sessions. In the morning session, EAVI and My Story partners from Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, France and Greece shared their experience and contributions to the project, including audiovisual material and a Dos and Don’ts Guide for journalists. Grass root organisations shared their experience with their respective media initiatives. Speqkers feutered Ulla Pentinpuro, co-founder of FB Community support for refugees in Belgium group; Bieke Heene, representative from OurHouse project; Camille [...]
#MyStory: New Feature Documentary – Dissecting Journalism
#MyStory partner, The Hungarian Moving Image and Media Education Association has released their latest documentary for the #MyStory project, Dissecting Journalism. The film documents the event the association organised in Subotica, Serbia where a refugee camp has been set up on the Hungarian border. The event involved journalists, refugees and locals from Subotica and explores journalism about migrants and refugees through the lens of media literacy.
Interview: Children of Media Project in Croatia Wins Prize for Media Literacy
We spoke to Danijel Labas about the project Djeca medija (Children of Media) from the DKMK (Association for Communication and Media Culture) in Zagreb, Croatia. Danijel is the The project recently won the award of Special Jury Prize from the Evens Foundation's 2017 Media Literacy Prize.
Trailer – Imprint Media Messages: The Migrant and Refugee Crisis as Excellent Field of Agenda Setting | #MyStory
From director Laszlo Hartai and the Hungarian Moving Image and Media Education Association, we welcome this documentary as part of the #MyStory: Media, Migrants & Refugees project co-funded by the EU Europe for Citizens Programme and coordinated by the European Association for Viewers Interests - EAVI.
#MyStory Event – Naples: Positive Experience of Migrants & Refugees
Hosted in the prestigious venue of the University Federico II, the oldest public university in the world established in 1224, the latest #MyStory event took place in Naples, January 27.
New Project: My Story | Migration and Media
EAVI and partners are happy to announce that we have been successful in our Europe for Citizens project application, titled My Story - Media and Migrants.
