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The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference in Brussels puts the many faces of digital and media literacy in the European spotlight during the Belgian EU presidency. The conference is focused on showcasing and exchanging initiatives, tools, projects and practices that can be integrated into your own work or policy. Meet and connect with professionals from around the EU and from all policy levels. Let’s strengthen European cooperation and the future of Digital and Media Literacy!

This conference is organised under the auspices of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024 as part of the European Digital and Media Literacy Conference week.

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Date

From Tuesday 27 February 2024 until Friday 1 March 2024

Hour

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 - 18:30 to 22:00

Wednesday February 28, 2024 - 9:00 to 17:00

Thursday February 29, 2024 - 9:00 to 17:00

Friday March 1, 2024 - 9:00 to 13:30

Price

Applications for this event are closed.

Please note: your place at the conference is not guaranteed by completing an application. The organisers of this event aim for a balanced attendance from across the European Union. Each application is therefore carefully considered to ensure the presence of a diverse and distinguished audience.

Location

27/02/2024

Sparks

60 rue Ravenstein

1000 Brussels

Near Brussels Central Station

Directions

 

28/02/2024 - 01/03/2024

Herman Teirlinckgebouw

Havenlaan 88

1000 Brussel

In walking distance from Brussels North Station

Directions

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This event is co-funded by the European Union. The content of this event represents the views of the organisers and speakers only, and it is their sole responsibility. It cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission and the Agency do not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information presented there.

Tuesday February 27 | Media Literacy Matters - Opening evening (18:30 - 22:00)

Time Session
18:30 - 19:30

Opening of registrations + welcome drink

19:30 - 21:00

Plenary opening of the conference

  • Bart Temmerman (Secretary General of the Flemish Ministry Department of Culture, Youth and Media - Belgium): Opening words 
  • Ellen Pack (Common Sense Media - USA): meeting the global moment: a Common Sense approach to media literacy.
  • Flemish Minister of Brussels, Youth, Media and Poverty reduction - Belgium: Closing words

Moderator: Andy Demeulenaere (Mediawijs - Belgium)
21:00 - 22:00

Networking reception

Wednesday February 28 | From disinformation to critical trust: when Digital and Media Literacy works

Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Registration and welcome coffee 

9:30 - 10:45

From disinformation to critical trust (Plenary keynotes)

  • Krisztina Stump (Head of Unit, Media Convergence and Social Media, European Commission): Strengthening media literacy and fighting disinformation: EU initiatives and perspectives.
  • Melisa Basol (Cambridge University - UK): Inoculating against misinformation: building cognitive resilience in the digital age. 
  • Magnus Hjort (Swedish Psychological Defense Agency - Sweden): Media literacy and psychological defence in the modern information battlefield - the Swedish way.

Announcement: Paolo Celot (EAVI - Belgium): Voices - the first European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy.
Moderator: Andy Demeulenaere (Mediawijs - Belgium)
10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30

 Parallel sessions - 1 (see below)
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break 
13:15 - 14:00

Project insights carousel (Pecha Kucha session) 

  • Fatih Yilmaz (Beyond the Horizon ISSG - Belgium): Immunising against infodemic.
  • Roxane Biedermann (Media Diversity Institute Global): Monitoring and combating online hate speech and disinformation campaigns in Sri Lanka.
  • Vano Gureshidze (Georgia's Reforms Associates (GRASS) - Georgia): From knocking on doors to hashtags: unconventional tactics for spreading media literacy.
  • Iva Junakovic Prazen (Re-Imagine Europa): Depolarising Europe.
  • Simon Truwant (Flemish Children’s Rights Knowledge Center (KeKi) - Belgium): Kindwijzer - Guide to children's and youth journalism in times of fake news and disinformation.
  • Ruslana Margova (Bulgarian Romanian EDMO Hub): MIL in BROD.

Format: pecha kucha presentations 

Moderator: Skúli Bragi Geirdal (Icelandic Media Commission - Iceland)
14:00 - 15:15

Parallel sessions - 2 (see below)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00

Parallel sessions - 3 (see below)
19:00 - 22:00

Conference dinner at Gare Maritime Brussels

Parallel sessions - 1 | 11:15 - 12:30 (Feb. 28)

  • Valeria Kovtun (Zinc Network - UK / Ukraine): Media literacy as a tool for fostering national identity in wartime - Ukraine's experience
  • Anne Tastula (Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation - Finland): Media literacy training in Palestine.
  • Maia Simonishvili (The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia - Georgia): Media literacy and practices against disinformation in Georgia.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Adeline Hulin (UNESCO)

  • Agnieszka Stępińska (Threatpie / Adam Mickiewicz University - Poland): Challenges to the political information environment: talking to politicians, journalists and educators in five countries.
  • Ana Sofia Cardenal (Threatpie / UOC - Spain): Who engages with untrustworthy sources and at what cost? Findings from a 5 country webtracking survey.
  • Gijs Lambrechts (VUB / EDMO BELUX - Belgium): Is a financially viable news media market the key to fighting disinformation in Europe? A cross-country quantitative study.
  • Krisztina Stump (Head of Unit, Media Convergence and Social Media, European Commission): Responder

Format: Panel discussion

Moderator: David N. Hopmann (Threatpie / University of Southern Denmark - Denmark)

  • Chris Coward (University of Washington - USA) & Klinta Ločmele (University of Latvia - Latvia): A collaborative game-based approach for building resilience to misinformation.
  • Silvia Della Rocca (University of Florence - Italy): empowering schools in self-regulation of media and information literacy processes: the EMILE project
  • Irina Paraschivoiu (Polycular - Austria): Escape Fake: engaging young people in media education with an augmented reality game.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Hans Martens (Insafe - European Schoolnet)

  • Jan Boesman (Artevelde University of Applied Sciences - Belgium)
  • Johanna Snoeck (Artevelde University of Applied Sciences - Belgium)
  • Jef Van Laer (Scivil - Belgium)
  • Charlotte Hens (Scivil - Belgium)

Format: Workshop

Moderator: Zara Mommerency (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Hugo Besançon (Square - France): Scaling up an efficient MIL intervention among vulnerable groups.
  • Patryk Zakrzewski (Demagog Association / CEDMO - Poland): FAKE kNOw MORE: countering misinformation through self-awareness.
  • Maria Leonida (Karpos Center for Education and Intercultural Communication - Greece): Media literacy practices with resilience.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Trisha Meyer (VUB / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Sonja Merljak Zdovc (Casoris - Slovenia)
  • Fanny Fröman (Helsingin Sanomat - Finland)
  • Marc-Henri Magdelenat (Press4Kids / News-O-Matic - France / USA)
  • Aralynn Abare McMane (Global Youth & News Media - France)

Format: Panel discussion

Moderator: Josh LaPorte (Global Youth & News Media - Belgium)

Parallel sessions - 2 | 14:00 - 15:15 (Feb. 28)

  • Margaret Holborn & Elli Narewska (The Guardian Foundation - UK): Moving young people from media literacy to media fluency through active participation.
  • Evaldas Rupkus (Deutsche Welle Akademie - Germany): Media fostering MIL: public service broadcasters in the Baltics and Ukraine looking for new formats.
  • Marte Foldvik-Høgås (Faktisk / Tenk - Norway): Navigating the news: empowering secondary students with critical media literacy skills.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Bert Pieters (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Peter Van Aelst (Threatpie / University of Antwerp - Belgium): Combating misinformation with media literacy. Experimental studies on the effects of media literacy messages.
  • Nicoleta Corbu (Threatpie / National University of Political Studies and Public Administration / BROD - Romania): Evidence based policy making: suggesting media literacy interventions based on research about disinformation in Bulgaria and Romania.
  • Ona Marija Vyšniauskaitė (British Council - Lithuania): Why Media Literacy is not enough. An evaluation of the people to people program in the Baltic States.
  • Daniel Bonvoisin (Média Animation - Belgium): Responder

Format: Panel discussion

Moderator: Frank Esser (Threatpie / University of Zurich - Switzerland)

  • Kris Custers (StampMedia - Belgium): StampMedia: amplifying young people's voices.
  • Jenny Sköld (Voices4You / Mobile Stories - Sweden) & Sabine Berzina (News Decoder - Latvia): Promoting media literacy and youth citizen journalism through Mobile Stories.
  • Gianna Cappello & Marianna Siino (University of Palermo - Italy): Media education and “educational commons” for youth civic engagement. A case study from the Horizon 2020 project SMOOTH.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Sally Lehrman (The Trust Project - USA)

  • Pamela Brunskill (News Literacy Project - US): From mission to movement: an overview of the News Literacy Project's initiatives and impact.
  • Zara Mommerency (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium): Democracy in the classroom: navigating news and elections.
  • Patricia van Rijswijk & Julia Conemans (Institute for Sound and Vision / BENEDMO - The Netherlands): Cultivating a news literacy ecosystem

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Emma Van De Velde (Flemish Ministry Department for Culture, Youth and Media - Belgium)

  • Charo Sádaba (University of Navarra / IBERIFIER - Spain): Media literacy for senior citizens: the case of Spain.
  • Lorenzo Marini (Verificat - Spain): Seniors united against misinformation: a P2P learning initiative.
  • Gregorio Sambataro (New Horizons - Italy): Media literacy and fake news.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Martin Culot (Média Animation / EDMO BELUX)

  • Martina Wagner (Swedish Agency for the Media - Sweden): Towards a more need-driven approach. Swedish work to promote media and information literacy.
  • Marin Lessenski (Open Society Institute - Bulgaria): The Media Literacy Index.
  • Konrad Bleyer-Simon (CMPF/EDMOeu/EUI - Italy): Mapping media literacy policies and resilience across the EU.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Emma Goodman (EDMOeu / EUI / LSE - UK)

Parallel sessions - 3 | 15:45 - 17:00 (Feb. 28)

  • Julia Cooke (Ofcom - UK): Media literacy by design, best practice principles.
  • Lara Levet (Meta): Meta’s digital & media literacy efforts and initiatives.
  • Lynn Sutton (TikTok): TikTok’s digital & media literacy efforts and initiatives.
  • Milan Zubíček (Google): Google’s digital & media literacy efforts and initiatives.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Trisha Meyer (VUB / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Patrick van Erkel (Threatpie / University of Amsterdam - Belgium): Fact-checking works everywhere? Results of a fact-checking experiment in 16 countries.
  • Caroline Lindekamp (CORRECTIV - Germany): CORRECTIV.Faktenforum: citizen journalists and AI to counter disinformation.
  • Nicola Bruno (Dataninja - Italy): Beyond fake news: developing effective media literacy interventions through prebunking strategies.
  • Jan Jagers (deCheckers.be - Belgium): Responder
  • Václav Štětka (Threatpie / Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University - UK): Responder

Format: Panel discussion

Moderator: Karolina Koc Michalska (Threatpie / Audencia Business School - France & University of Silesia - Poland )

  • Abbie Richards (Media Matters for America - USA): Unmasking disinformation: online content creators in action.
  • Tim Vanhaecke (Chase - Belgium): Counterscam
  • Esther Vandenbroele (ziczackitty for Chase Community - Belgium): Counterscam

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Roslyn Kratochvil Moore (DW Akademie - Germany)

  • Kaspars Rūklis (IREX - Latvia): Media literacy: building resilience to manipulative information in higher education.
  • Krisztina Nagy (Idea Foundation, Budapest University of Technology and Economics / HDMO - Hungary): Integrating digital and media literacy into higher education.
  • Lucia Mesquita (Lusófona University, CICANT - Portugal / Dublin City University - Ireland): Navigating the digital age: a master programme's approach to media literacy and digital citizenship.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Vitor Tomé (CIES-ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon / IBERIFIER - Portugal)

  • Ximena Villagrán Barillas (Maldita.es - Spain): Bulobús: joys and challenges of criss-crossing Spain doing media literacy on wheels.
  • Bert Pieters (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium): I doubt: a media literacy campaign promoting doubt and critical thinking.
  • Iglika Ivanova (Media Literacy Coalition - Bulgaria): Empowering news literacy through Wikipedia: harnessing the power of open knowledge and community-driven fact-checking.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Nicoleta Fotiade (IAME / Mediawise Society - Romania)

  • Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck (Lie Detectors - Belgium)
  • Sven Knobloch (Lie Detectors / MDR - Germany)
  • Yilmaz Gülüm (ORF / Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication - Austria)

Format: Panel discussion

Moderator: Anna Słojewska (Rzeczpospolita / Lie Detectors - Poland)

Thursday February 29 | From schools and children to digital and media Literacy for all

Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Registration and welcome coffee 

9:30 - 10:45

From schools and children to digital and media Literacy for all (Plenary keynotes)

  • Patrick Verniers (CSEM / IAME - Belgium): From practices to citizenship: a journey into the heart of media literacy.
  • Brian O'Neill (Technological University Dublin - Ireland): From media literacy to digital citizenship: can media literacy competencies contribute to a better digital world?
  • Renee Hobbs (Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island  - USA) and Bert Pieters (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium): Teaching Media Literacy: What Works and Why?

Moderator: Martina Chapman (Media Literacy Ireland / EDMO IRELAND)
10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30

 Parallel sessions - 1 (see below)
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break 
13:15 - 14:00

Project insights carousel (Pecha Kucha session) 

  • Adriana Trocea (The Center for Independent Journalism - Romania): Media literacy programme: building resilience one person at a time.
  • Rimgaile Kasparaite & Patricija Lenciauskiene (Vytautas Magnus University - Lithuania): Mindful media mastery.
  • Balázs Dezsényi (RNW Media - The Netherlands): Smart civil campaigns: media literacy lessons from 22 countries.
  • Hana Kojakovic (Media Diversity Institute Global): Introducing reporting diversity network.
  • Maryna Dorosh (IREX - Ukraine): Countering historical propaganda through media literacy.
  • Dovile Dudenaite (Media & Learning Association): Empowering young voters: teaching material targeting EP elections ’24.

Format: pecha kucha presentations

Moderator: Skúli Bragi Geirdal (Icelandic Media Commission - Iceland)
14:00 - 15:15

Parallel sessions - 2 (see below)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00

Parallel sessions - 3 (see below)
17:00 - 18:00 Networking reception

Parallel sessions - 1 | 11:15 - 12:30 (Feb. 29)

  • Veronika Pelle (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services / National Media and Infocommunications Authority, Hungary): The results of the ERGA media literacy survey.
  • Paolo Cesarini (EDMOeu / EMIF / EUI): The role of EDMO and the hubs in stimulating media literacy.
  • Hans Martens (Insafe - European Schoolnet): The digital and media literacy work of the safer internet centres.
  • Adeline Hulin (UNESCO): The work and plans of UNESCO's global MIL alliance.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Andy Demeulenaere (Mediawijs - Belgium)

  • Kate Morris (Ofcom - UK): From theory to practice: lessons learned from Ofcom’s evaluation toolkit.
  • Reijo Kupiainen (Tampere University - Finland): On the challenges of measuring media literacy and studying the impact of interventions.
  • Pierre Fastrez (Université catholique de Louvain - Belgium): Researching and measuring the impact of media education.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Emma Goodman (EDMOeu / EUI / LSE - UK)

  • Roslyn Kratochvil Moore (DW Akademie - Germany): MIL Heroes and Villains: a flexible storytelling approach.
  • Panu Räsänen (Verke - Finland): Finnish digital youth work and media education.
  • Johnathan Manzitto (Action Médias Jeunes - Belgium): TBD

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Tatiana Debrabandere (CSEM / EDMO BELUX- Belgium)

  • Saara Salomaa (KAVI - Finland): Children’s ideas for preschool media education.
  • Bérénice Vanneste (Média Animation - Belgium): How can we use the media as an interactive and educational tool with children under 6?
  • Marjolein Fransen & Elfi De Vos (JEF - Belgium): First steps in media.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Gianna Cappello (IAME / University of Palermo - Italy)

  • Caroline Gevers (Libraries Without Borders - Belgium): Making media literacy a family matter: can parents get involved, and how?
  • Katerina Chryssanthopoulou (Medialiteracymatters.org / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece): How could teachers reach families and the general public to promote development of MIL skills for all?
  • Jo Schuler (FSM - Germany): Elternguide.online: how to support parents‘ media education in families?

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Karen Linten (Mediawijs - Belgium)

  • Lucia Mesquita (Dublin City University / Lusófona University, CICANT - Ireland / Portugal): An overview of the results of the TeaMLit project investigating the current state of media literacy training for teachers in several European countries.
  • Lina Pranaityte-Wergin (Heidelberg School of Education - Germany): Developing a critical media literacy online module for teacher education.
  • Emmanuel Wathelet (IHECS - Belgium): Building media literacy competency amongst trainee teachers: between toolbox, knowledge of the field and epistemology

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Chloé Pété (Media & Learning Association / EDMOeu)

Parallel sessions - 2 | 14:00 - 15:15 (Feb. 29)

  • Laure Delmoly (CLEMI / DE FACTO - France): De Facto/CLEMI resources to fight disinformation.
  • Fernanda Bonacho (School of Communication and Media Studies / IPLisbon / GILM - Portugal) & Sofia Rasgado (National Cybersecurity Centre - Portugal): GILM's multistakeholder model for media literacy in Portugal.
  • Andrea Cox (Council for Media Services - Slovakia): Can a state policy on media literacy be alluring?

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Leo Van Audenhove (imec-SMIT, VUB - Belgium)

  • Tatiana Debrabandere (CSEM / EDMO BELUX- Belgium): Media literacy competences and knowledge for schools in Brussels-Wallonia federation.
  • Leen d'Haenens (KU Leuven - Belgium): The ySkills model for measuring digital skills.
  • Julian McDougall (Bournemouth University - UK): Beyond solutionism with a theory of change for media literacy.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Robert Tomljenovic (Agency for Electronic Media - Croatia)

  • Davy Nijs (Mediawijs - Belgium): Tools for policymaking and supporting digital inclusion and media literacy in social care work organisations.
  • Florian Waerzeggers & Harika Kalman (Link in de kabel - Belgium): Shift: a digital and creative space for young people.
  • Evelyn Verburgh (Mediajungle - The Netherlands): Mediajungle: wiser online by playing and sharing.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Isabelle Wirth (AFP - France)

  • Elke Boudry & Yana Baetens (Mediawijs - Belgium): ‘The Scale of M’: in search of Flanders' most media literate class.
  • Vesna Husein-Nikodinoska (North Macedonia): The inclusion of media literacy in the formal education in the Republic of North Macedonia
  • Marjolein Fransen & Elfi De Vos (JEF - Belgium): Changemaker kids: filmeducation about positive propaganda and active citizenship.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Aralynn McMane (Global Youth & News Media - France)

  • Martina Chapman (Media Literacy Ireland / EDMO IRELAND): Public media literacy campaigns: a case-study.
  • Lea Cengic (Communications Regulatory Agency - Bosnia and Herzegovina): How to create a successful MIL campaign: experiences from the Communications Regulatory Agency.
  • Lara Schreurs (KU Leuven / U Hasselt - Belgium) & Karen Linten (Mediawijs - Belgium): The Vibe Check campaign: How research can inform and help measure the impact of social media literacy campaigns and interventions.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Paula Gori (EDMOeu / EUI)

  • Tamara Kvas (DKMK - Croatia): TeaMLit and the offer made to teacher trainers: network, repository and modules.
  • Vitor Tomé (CIES-Iscte, University Institute of Lisbon / IBERIFIER - Portugal): Portuguese experience in training teachers in media literacy.
  • Jeroen Herman (Mediawijs - Belgium): The evolution and expansion of the Mediacoach programme in Flanders.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Christa Prusskij (Finnish Society on Media Education - Finland)

Parallel sessions - 3 | 15:45 - 17:00 (Feb. 29)

  • Renee Hobbs (University of Rhode Island - USA): Courageous Rhode Island: a statewide community approach.
  • Natia Kukuladze (Georgian National Communications Commission): The development of media literacy and digital inclusion initiatives in Georgia: enhancing formal education and empowering rural communities.
  • Yonty Friesem (Media Education Lab - USA): Advancing media education across the state: the case of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Leo Van Audenhove (imec-SMIT, VUB - Belgium)

  • Stéphane Hoebeke (RTBF - Belgium): The vital role of public services media: examples from RTBF.
  • Fran De Vriese (VRT - Belgium): Education and media literacy at VRT.
  • Alessandra Paradisi (RAI / IDMO - Italy): RAI media literacy experience in IDMO (Italian Digital Media Observatory).

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Patrick Verniers (CSEM / IAME - Belgium)

  • Ilona Kish (Public Libraries 2030 - Belgium): Digital innovation in European public libraries: Guerilla Education for Librarians (GEL).
  • Katarina Blažina Mukavec (DKMK - Croatia): Librarians as media literacy advocates in Croatia.
  • Tatiana Sanches (Institute of Education, ULisboa - Portugal): Libraries, reading and digital fluency: building skills, (trans)forming audiences.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Stephanie Comey (Coimisiún na Meán - Ireland)

  • Maiko Ratiani (Media Development Foundation / Myth Detector - Georgia): Teaching history through media literacy: integration of MIL into formal education and interdisciplinary activities.
  • Jane McGarrigle (Webwise - Ireland): Involving young people in digital media literacy.
  • Jo Schuler (FSM - Germany): Misinformation, cyberbullying, hate speech or AI – “Medien in die Schule” teaching materials for media education in the classroom.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Martina Chapman (Media Literacy Ireland / EDMO IRELAND)

  • Kristina Hristova (Media Literacy Coalition - Bulgaria): Lifelong learning for Bulgarian seniors.
  • Pieter Rombouts (LINC vzw - Belgium): Digibuddies - the next generation.
  • Kateřina Lukaničová (Transitions - Czech Republic): ageless learning: tailoring media literacy to seniors

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Anna Tsiarta (Cyprus Pedagogical Institute - Cyprus)

  • Igor Kanižaj (University of Zagreb - Croatia): Localising EDUboxes in Croatia.
  • Erik Appelman (NTR / SchoolTV - NL): EduBox chat, Schooltv.nl and media literacy.
  • Leo Pekkala (KAVI - Finland): Lessons learned from ICME for European contextual media literacy.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Tim Van Lier (VRT - Belgium)

Friday March 1st | Moving forward: From future technology challenges to the future of Digital and Media Literacy

Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Registration and welcome coffee 

9:30 - 10:45

Moving forward: From future technology challenges to the future of Digital and Media Literacy (Plenary keynotes)

  • Dries Depoorter (independent artist - Belgium): Surveillance art, dying phones and fake likes. 
  • Lee Edwards (London School of Economics and Political Science - UK): Cross-sectoral challenges to media literacy: a systemic approach to best practice.
  • Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science - UK): Identifying best practice for media literacy initiatives: EDMO’s digital media literacy standards working group recommendations.

Moderator: Eliane Richter (Medienzentrum der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft - Belgium)
10:45 - 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:30

 Parallel sessions - 1 (see below)
12:30 - 13:30

The future challenges for digital and media literacy practitioners and policy makers (conference closing panel) 

  • Igor Kanižaj (EDMO Council and WG on Standards and Best Practices / University of Zagreb / DKMK - Croatia)
  • Maria Donde (EMIL / EPRA - UK)
  • Jane McGarrigle (INSAFE / Webwise - Ireland)
  • Nicoleta Fotiade (IAME / Mediawise Society - Romania)
  • Andy Demeulenaere (Media and Learning Association / Mediawijs - Belgium)

Moderator: Andy Demeulenaere (Mediawijs - Belgium)
13:30 - 14:30  Lunch

Parallel sessions - 1 | 11:15 - 12:30 (March 1st)

  • Patricia Noboa Armendariz (DW Akademie - Germany): Fun learning: a long-term answer to nurturing critical audiences and rebuilding trust.
  • Mònica Duran Ruiz (PRAI / CAC - Spain): UNESCO-PRAI MIL best practices mapping.
  • Hanna Marzinkowski (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung - Germany) & Hui-An Ho (Taiwan FactCheck Center - Taiwan): Changing the perspective: working against online hate speech, mis- and disinformation in different geopolitical and local contexts.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Alenka Le Compte (Mediawijs - Belgium)

  • Alyssa Coursey (Australian Media Literacy Alliance / National Film & Sound Archive - Australia): Media literacy education and advocacy – an Australian perspective.
  • Megan Fromm (NAMLE - USA): Moving media literacy forward in the United States.
  • Blaise Pascal Andzongo Menyeng (Eduk-Média / IAME - Cameroun): Media and information literacy in Africa : challenges and opportunities.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Patrick Verniers (CSEM / IAME - Belgium)

  • Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, UNESCO Chair Savoir Devenir - France): UNESCO strategy on AI and MIL: empowering users.
  • Lotte Vermeire (imec-SMIT, VUB - Belgium): Charting the course for data literacy: a synthesis of educational and communication science literature.
  • Arnaud Claes (UCLouvain - Belgium): By default - how to encourage users to care for and to critically engage with algorithms?

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Eva Van Passel (Department of Culture, Youth and Media - Belgium)

  • Ana Filipa Martins (University of Algarve / CIAC - Arts and Communication Research Centre - Portugal): Fostering digital citizenship: the PROPS project.
  • Iris Verhoeven (JEF - Belgium): On the evolution of the JEF medialab and the travelling GAME ON project with an inflatable game arena.
  • Simon Hurd (Média Animation - Belgium): Chill&Play: a study of gender issues in youth digital entertainment.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Martin Culot (Média Animation / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Edward De Vooght (Artevelde University of Applied Science - Belgium)
  • Kris Rutten (Ghent University - Belgium)

Format: Workshop

Moderator: Bert Pieters (Mediawijs / EDMO BELUX - Belgium)

  • Isabel De Peuter-Rutten (Euromersive, European Federation of XR Professionals - Belgium): Critical realities: navigating digital literacy in the virtual era.
  • Carl Boel (Thomas More University of Applied Sciences / Dexr - Belgium): XR in education: beyond the hype.
  • Vicki Shotbolt (Parent Zone - UK): Reality Check: why explaining new technologies is harder than we might think.

Format: Presentations

Moderator: Jeroen Herman (Mediawijs - Belgium)

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