The purpose of Fotokids is to help small groups of Central American young people from the poorest of barrios develop useful, employable skills as a means to self-exploration, expression, and discovery. Through intensive, long-term personal relationships with teachers and mentors, participating children learn to use photography, creative writing, and computers as tools to examine their […]
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
EduClip
EduClip is a proposal born with the intention of promoting a new style in the cultural and educational media. EduClip has two initiatives. The first is a contest comprised of educlips (or educational clips) to stimulate the production of audiovisual programs that address content of an educational or cultural tone with innovative, alternative forms, consistent […]
La Claqueta
La Claqueta’s main interest is in promoting education through cinema and audiovisual media. The organization develops activities, primarily workshops and training courses, which combine all aspects of audio-visual teaching. La Claqueta aims chiefly to use cinema and audiovisual media to supplement the education of children and adolescents and help develop their creativity and communication skills. […]
The European Observatory on Children’s Television (OETI)
The European Observatory on Children’s Television, EOCT, develops its activities under the premise that television content should be formative, educational and entertaining. The creation of the Observatory was foreseen as a unifying element of individual efforts supporting the work of the WFCT (World Forum on Children’s Television) and the BITF (Barcelona International Television Festival), initiated […]
Fundación Euroárabe
The Euroarab Foundation for Higher Studies has its origins in the agreement reached by the European Parliament in 1984 for the creation of the Euroarab University. On 10th October 1995 the Euroarab Foundation for Higher Studies was founded, an institution unique in the international arena in composition and mission: to create a space for dialogue […]
Xenoclipse Project
XenoCLIPse is an action-based research project for empowerment through racial tolerance and media education. eCLIPse, the consortium’s successful first collaboration, identified the need to target ethnic minorities and go beyond the institutional context of universities. Involvement of ethno-cultural minorities means media exposure as both objects and subjects. The new project envisages empowerment through increased access […]
UNICEF / Voices of Youth
Voices of Youth is a global organization that advocates for children’s right to participate in the media, and evaluates what young people are doing to exercise that right. It has been around since 1995. It started as a way for more than 3,000 young people from 81 countries to send messages to world leaders at […]
Knight News Challenge
Created in 1950, Knight Foundation has invested nearly $315 million in projects seeking to advance journalism quality and freedom of expression. The Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news, is in its second year of operation. Last year’s winners included 25 […]
CLEMI
The Clemi (centre for liaison between teaching and information media) is part of the French Ministry of Education. It was created in 1983 with the mission of “promoting especially by means of training activities, the multiple uses of news media in teaching with the aim of encouraging a better understanding of the world by pupils […]