Digital and Μedia Literacy for Youth Leaders

The project “Digital and Media Literacy for Youth Leaders” is an eight months project implemented by the Center for Social Innovations Blin 42-21 and Digital Communication Network Global that will provide youth with digital and media literacy skills. These skills will support them to analyze, evaluate and create effective messages on a wide variety of digital mediums. The project is financed by the Erasmus + small scale partnership program.

Through the project a virtual training program with six module has been developed. The program will provide participants with the opportunity to learn by experts in journalism, social media campaigns, digital storytelling, community engagement, internet security, data analysis, media literacy, and combating disinformation. Moreover, the program provides an overview of the main areas of contemporary media and prepare participants with the skills needed to excel in the digital world.

The training program includes the following modules: Critical thinking, Disinformation & Accountability, Development of Digital campaigns for Civic Engagement, Media literacy against Disinformation, Media literacy in practice, Transmedia storytelling and International news literacy and learning about the world.

The official beginning of the program was on July 22^nd with formal opening from the coordinators, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain in North Macedonia and the Director of the National Agency for European Educational Programmes and Mobility in North Macedonia. Around 50 participants are currently enrolled in the training program and are following the modules.

After the virtual training program the participants are expected to actively build on the training by applying the knowledge and skills obtained in their country and in their working places. After the training programs teams of the participants formed during the program will continue to accelerate their ideas and actions on how they can address joint social issues through the application of their acquired skills from the training. They will work together online, will have sessions with assigned mentors for them from the DCN Network of experts, and will finalize their ideas. The ideas can be, but not specifically focused on ideas for the creation of digital tools, updating of the already existing tools, campaigns, and others. They will not be required to develop the final solution, just to develop it in a stage of idea with a specific plan for its realization.

20 participants will have the opportunity to present the idea during the study visit in Greece at the Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy 2022.

See you in THISAM with a lot of multimedia products motivated by this virtual training program.

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PRESS RELEASE

Fellowships to Ukrainian students to participate in the
6th Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy

Thessaloniki, 8/3/2022

Ukrainian students will be hosted by the 6th Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy which is organized by the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Public Diplomacy. The academy will start on the 15th and will be completed on the 22nd of July 2022, while the opening will be on the 15th of July 2022, by the Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor Nikolaos G. Papaioannou.

More specifically, there will be given 10 fellowships to Ukrainian students which will include the tuition fees, the accommodation and the transportation expenses.

The initiative of creating the Summer Academy belongs to the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and specifically to Associate Professor Nikolaos Panagiotou and Professor Christos Fragonikolopoulos.

The initiative brings together the prestige and expertise of well-known Universities and Organizations from Europe, Asia and the USA, while it is supported by organizations, companies and think tanks active in the field of journalism and digital technology.

The institutions and organizations which support the Media Summer Academy are the following: Deutsche Welle, Temple University USA, Hallym University, Corea, Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, University of Zagreb, University of Novi-Sad, Panteion University, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ImedD and Proof organization: Media for Social Justice, Digital Communication Network Global.

The academy will be held in English.  

More information: https://www.joursummerschool.org