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29 May 2026

MLI May Newsletter

Welcome to the MLI Monthly Update! Have something you want to share with the membership? Tell us about it by emailing us at info@medialiteracyireland.ie. We are particularly interested in including your resources in our new…

28 May 2026

Coimisiún na Meán awards media literacy funding

Coimisiún na Meán has announced three projects that will receive funding under its Media Literacy / Countering Disinformation Call for Submissions for Funding 2026. The call was launched on 10 March to support the implementation of the…

28 May 2026

MLI EDMO Ireland Disinformation Forum: From national strategies to community enablers

MLI and EDMO Ireland delivered the second Disinformation Forum on 11 May 2026 entitled Countering Disinformation through Media Literacy Collaborations: From national strategies to community enablers. Each Disinformation Forum is…

28 May 2026

Introducing the ARENAS Learning Platform

by Denise Callan, Momentum Consulting When trying to empower people with the skills to spot misinformation, a challenge can be identifying a false narrative rather than a false fact. The ARENAS Learning Platform has been developed to…

28 May 2026

EBU Report: Advancing Media Literacy Through Public Service Media

by Paul Harrison, EBU Strategy Services The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is stepping up its media literacy work with its Public Service Media (PSM) members. In April, it published its second report, Advancing Media Literacy…

20 May 2026

Applications open for new Royal Irish Academy Disinformation Research Grant

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) is inviting applications for the new Disinformation Research Grant, supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. The scheme will support nuanced, collaborative research on different…

13 May 2026

Scanarix Media Game: Growing a transnational civic infrastructure for media literacy

by Larysa Nazarenko, CSO Segalor, Ukraine What happens when a game stops being just a teaching tool and starts becoming civic infrastructure? This is the question that has guided the development of the Scanarix Media Game from its…

30 April 2026

MLI April Newsletter

Welcome to the MLI Monthly Update! Have something you want to share with the membership? Tell us about it by emailing us at info@medialiteracyireland.ie. We are particularly interested in including your resources in our new…

29 April 2026

Free Media Literacy Training Programme available

MIL-CC (Media and Information Literacy Community Connections) is pleased to announce that its media literacy training programme for public librarians is now freely available in English and Spanish. MIL-CC was a pilot project running…

27 April 2026

Cannes Calling: Ireland’s Young Lions winners announced

Iapi, the business representative organisation for Ireland’s creative and communications sector, announced the names of the 14 exceptional young talents who are heading to Cannes as winners of the 2026 Irish Young Lions…