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Call for entries for youth video competition ‘What’s Your Story?’

How do you know what’s real or fake online? That is the question that Trend Micro Ireland want young people to answer in a two minute video as the annual youth video competition ‘What’s Your Story?’ is launched. The competition now in its 11th successful year in Ireland, invites young people to help solve a challenge that the

The Magic Returns- Cinemagic Set To Illuminate Screens This Autumn

Festival goers will have the chance to experience a thought-provoking world cinema programme that spotlights youth issues and social issues, an extensive education programme, talent lab industry masterclasses, classic and brand-new family and teen films, the Cinemagic Young Filmmaker weekend, and Film Jury panels for young film critics. In addition to film previews from all

EMIF announces support for eight media literacy projects

Eight new media literacy projects have been awarded funding via the European Media and Information Fund – including a project involving MLI member FuJo.

Training the trainers: A public library – higher education collaboration for Media Literacy education in Ireland

Media literacy education has been recognised as an important role for public librarians, particularly in recent years as mis- and dis-information continue to spread through both traditional and digital information channels. However, public librarians are often not trained as media literacy educators, and must rely on self-directed learning to build these important skills. To help

Media Literacy Programme Fund launched in the UK

This is a new, multi-year fund that is open to UK organisations undertaking media literacy activity that tackles the media literacy challenges in the Online Media Literacy Strategy. In year 1 of the Media Literacy Programme Fund, DCMS are inviting bids for projects that meet one or more of the following strategic priorities: 1) Vulnerable Users: Providing support

Applications open for Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media Advisory Panel

The role of the Advisory Panel is as follows: The Panel is a voluntary forum and membership is by Ofcom invitation, after a transparent recruitment process. Membership is initially for 24 months, and subject to a review by Ofcom, to reflect the priorities of the MSOM programme.

In Case You Missed It: Exploring the work of EDMO hubs

The Media and Learning Association (MLA) is running a series of webinars together with the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) on Digital & Media Literacy in Europe. The title of the series is ‘Exploring Media Literacy at National, Regional and Local Level – the work of EDMO hubs.’ The main goal is to present the

The librarians are coming!

The world’s most important international library conference will be held at the Convention Centre Dublin 26th-29th July. The World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) is organised by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the largest global library organisation representing tens of thousands of libraries and librarians worldwide. This will be the first