MELIA Observatory Media Literacy Observatory for Active Citizenship and Sustainable Democracy
Citizen’s competence is of crucial importance for active political participation, which is one of the main components of good governance and sustainable democracy. Especially in the Eastern part of the Danube region, political participation is stagnating. Particularly worrisome are apathy and lack of political interest on the side of the younger population. Furthermore, in the last years, we witness political developments that result in the deterioration of democratic standards in many parts of the region. The core element of the citizen’s competence is a high level of media literacy. It is necessary for citizens’ reflection of social reality and their resilience to negative media phenomena, like hate speech and fake news.
The main objective of the project is to improve democratic transnational governance by developing transnational media literacy observatory, based on cooperation between different relevant stakeholders. In many countries of the Danube region, the development of competencies of media literacy and active citizenship are far behind more developed parts of Europe. This observatory will serve as a mechanism for increasing media literacy and thus strengthening citizens’ competencies what will contribute to the development of sustainable democracy. The main target groups are the youth and the people who work with them. For the purpose of strengthening it, the observatory will provide tools, available for both young people as well as their educators.
The project will establish an observatory for media literacy that will provide instruments for scrutinizing media contents, training tools and policy recommendations for upgrading media literacy in relation to other civic skills.
Outputs include:
- capacity building and training tools,
- web-based interface
- policy recommendations.
The core activities of the project are:
- mapping of practices and dissemination of information,
- developing a learning system,
- designing web training platform,
- pilot testing.
- Start date
- 01-07-2020
- End date
- 31-12-2022
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2.188,700 EUR
- ERDF Contribution: 1.660.900 EUR
- IPA Contribution: 138.720 EUR
- ENI Contribution: 60.775 EUR
- Call number
- Call 3
- Priority
- Well-governed Danube region
- Specific objective
- Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges
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Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| School of Advanced Social Studies | Lead partner | erika.ursic@fuds.si | Slovenia |
| Babeș-Bolyai University | ERDF partner | badescu@fspac.ro | Romania |
| Edhance Plus o.p.s. | ERDF partner | lukas.rejchrt@edhance.cz | Czech Republic |
| Research Centre Regional and Global Development | ERDF partner | yantsislavyanakiev@gmail.com | Bulgaria |
| Algebra University College | ERDF partner | leo.mrsic@algebra.hr | Croatia |
Project News
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MELIA Observatory - How to teach Media Literacy to your classroom Online info session for teachers
- 15-09-2021
Thursday 7 October, 17.00 - 18.30 The House of European History’s third temporary exhibition places the concept of ‘’Fake’’ - one of the present day’s most widely discussed topics - as a common thread throughout history. This information...
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MELIA Observatory - ONLINE PARTNERSHIP MEETING WITHING 1ST YEAR REVIEW
- 21-07-2021
On the 19th of July 2021, Partnership Meeting with 1st Year Review was held online via Zoom app. t was organized by the project Lead Partner SASS. After the introduction of the consortium, the state of the art after 1 year and future activities,...
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MELIA Observatory - Cooperation between Melia observatory and Young Bled Strategic Forum 30.6.-1.7.2021
- 01-07-2021
MELIA Observatory project is closely related to the aims of the priority area 10 of the EUSDR, Institutional capacity and cooperation, so our team joined the event. MELIA is also an important initiative that contributes to the digital challenges...
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MELIA Observatory - News media literacy for adults – why is it important right now?
- 21-06-2021
The rapid technological developments and the ever-changing social conditions shape diverse communication dynamics that give rise to several challenges such as mal-/mis/dis-information, hate speech and propaganda. In this context, adult learning...
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MELIA Observatory - Workshop on Media Literacy Observatory for Active Citizenship and Sustainable Democracy
- 21-06-2021
The Worksshop was hled by PP Algebra University College from Croatia on 9.6.2021. At the very beginning of the event, Mr. Leo Mršić Ph.D. from Algebra University College welcomed all the participants and gave a short overview of the...
