by Catriona Mulcahy, Project Officer, Webwise Safer Internet Day (SID) 2026 will take place on Tuesday, 10 February 2026. This global event is an opportunity for schools, organisations, families and the wider community to put online safety at the top of the agenda and take action to make the internet a safer, better place for everyone, especially children and
Media literacy stakeholders and practitioners may be interested to know that the Adult Literacy for Life (ALL) Collaboration and Innovation Fund is now inviting applications for projects. This fund is aimed at collaborative initiatives that support adults with unmet literacy, numeracy, digital and financial literacy needs and that help organisations and services to become more literacy friendly and aware. Over the last three years, this funding has helped over 250
by Martina Chapman, National Coordinator for MLI Time flies when you are busy, and we certainly have been busy this year. As December rolls in, it’s a good time to look back at the year that was and appreciate what we have achieved. Six specific areas of activity were identified for 2025. They were to:
Digital literacy underpins the ability to make informed choices about many of our daily tasks such as money management, health and social interaction. This is recognised by the national Adult Literacy for Life Programme, which has established the 2025 Collaboration and Innovation Fund for projects and activities that support adults with unmet literacy, numeracy, digital
Read the November MLI newsletter for media literacy related news and updates.
On 4 December 2024, the Media Literacy Ireland annual conference took place at the Foundry in Dublin, kindly hosted by Google. MLI would like to thank Coimisiún na Meán, Google and all of the speakers, panellists, and attendees for making it such a success The theme of the conference was ‘Media Literacy for All’ and
Read the November MLI newsletter for media literacy related news and updates.
During the first half of 2024, regional radio station, Beat, developed and delivered a substantial Digital Media Literacy Tour for secondary schools across the South East. For schools that missed out on the face to to face roadshow, Beat have now published a 20 minute video version of the tour which schools and youth groups can access on the Beat website.