CEFIG gladly invites you for a 7-day training course It’s up to YOU! dedicated to media literacy.
This workshop will increase your cricital thinking skills, allow you to see through tricks that are played on us by media and big companies marketing campaingns. We are all under (social) pressure – let’s learn together how to prevent it and help others to face it. We invite you to come to hear the experience of others and share yours!
Details about the project:
Date: 8th – 16th April 2017 (8th and16th are travel days)
Place: Kolin, Czech republic
Activity type: Training Course
Hosting organisation: CEFIG
Participating countries: Czech republic, Croatia, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Denmark, Macedonia, Romania.
Partner organisations: Mladi za Marof (www.mzm.hr), Center for Youth Activism CYA KRIK, Stowarzyszenie Projektow Miedzynarodowych "Logos Polska", ASOCIATIA GEYC (http://www.geyc.ro), Asociación las niñas del tul (http://lasdeltul.net/), GENCLIK MEVSIMI DERNEGI, Soeholm 4H (www.4h.dk).
Number of participants per country / in total: 3 / 24
Trainers: Viktoriia Oleksiienko, Armen Tatarevic, Ondrej Podlesak
Identification number: 2016-3-CZ01-KA105-034330
Main objective:
To develop media literacy amongst youngworkers, give them tools to spread the idea of critical thinking to prevent unwanted results of media illiteracy.
Specific objectives are:
1) better understanding how social pressure created by (social) media works,
2) to prevent stress or depression as a result of social pressure,
3) to give young leaders tools to help their peers face the risk of social exclusion or radicalization,
4) to help youth workers prevent xenophobia created by media amongst youngsters,
5) give skills to host a free workshop for young people in their organisations on this topic and include media literacy as a part of their Youth exchanges / training courses
Links:
Abitoflit.com - media platform created by participants during the training course. http://abitoflit.com/
Video interview for local czech TV (TV Kolin). Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1g2nPs7Nfk
Video report done by participants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXCf-jMmwU
Photos from the training: http://cefig.rajce.idnes.cz/It_s_up_to_you/
Article about project on ADAM.cz - czech national education portal: http://www.adam.cz/clanek-2017040044-medialni-gramotnost-v-cr-pod-zastit...
Article about project on Svoboda.info - regional Czech republic news (czech): http://www.svoboda.info/zpravy/kolin/mezinarodni-vzdelavaci-projekt-it_s...
Official press release: https://www.cefig.cz/mezinarodni-vzdelavaci-projekt-its-up-to-you
Invitation to project on ADAM.cz, national education portal funded by Czech Council of Youth (czech): http://www.adam.cz/clanek-2017010058-vzdelavejte-se-zdarma-kurz-o-medial...
Project's profile on SALTO-YOUTH (english): http://trainings.salto-youth.net/6227
Project's profile on YOUTH in advance (english): http://yia18.org/2017/01/21/training-course-its-up-to-you-czech-republic/
Project's profile on Erasmus+ (english): http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-detai...