On 7 November a Cluster meeting on media literacy was hold at the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. The meeting was organised by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), which manages funding for education, culture, audiovisual, sport, citizenship and volunteering. Mariya Rachinska – co-founder and manager of Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education had the pleasure of attending the meeting.
The meeting was focused on the work in media literacy in the context of three funding programmes: Erasmus+, CERV and Creative Europe. The meeting was opened by Sophie Beernaerts, the director, EACEA, followed by the Deputy Head of Unit of Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) and the team leader of Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DJ JUST).
The meeting set the policy content on media literacy, democracy and the combating of disinformation, the context of the Digital Education Action Plan (DEA) and guidelines on tackling disinformation and promoting digital literacy through education and training.
Furthermore, beneficiaries under the three EU funding programmes were invited to discuss their projects in four panel discussions. Panel 1: Media literacy in formal education, Panel 2: Media literacy with different target groups, Panel 3: Mis-/disinformation, democracy, and values, Panel 4: New technologies, tools, algorithms, and AI.
During the afternoon, three workshops were held simultaneously. During the workshops, the beneficiaries were divided according to a preliminary survey in order to contribute to the Commission’s work on media literacy, mis/disinformation, critical thinking, democracy and values and new technologies, tools, algorithms, and development of AI.
Last but not least, the cluster meeting served as a solid basis for networking and creating new collaborations and meeting with colleagues from previous partnerships.