3rd INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA SUMMIT (IYMS) is a summit for young filmmakers and young diplomats from high schools, universities and media programs all over the world. Target age group for participants is 15 to 22 years.
This year Summit has focus on:
Intercultural Media Education,
Media Literacy for all,
Education in Media, Information and Communication technologies and
Developing possibilities of film, TV and ICT audio video communication
like strong tool for global peace, democratization and better future for young generation. Especially we would like to developing Balkan Youth Network and forming of the Balkan-European International Team for permanent work on Intercultural and Transcultural Media Education.
The 3rd annual IYMS-SEVEN VOICES IN TIME Summit will be held August 19th to 28th, 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. The young participant’s could be candidates as Student Filmmakers and Student Diplomats. The outcomes of the Summit are Public Service Announcements (PSAs) filmed and edited by student filmmakers as well as researched and prepared by the student diplomats.
Participants of the Summit will be 80 young people (15-22) from all around the world with 40 adults-Teachers, Media Educators or Media Coach from all continents. For us is very important that we will have youth from different regions, different cultural, confessional and traditional background, regions in crisis (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia, Lesotho, Bangladesh…) together with young people from developed countries (Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Greece…) and all Balkan Countries. This will give us possibility of application in media education Intercultural Dialogue and Intercultural Education during Summit.
The program of the Summit is exclusively designed to provide Skill and Professional Development as well as familiarizing the young participants with codes and standards of Media. Also, provide media education platform for young adults to express and present the seven significant issues relating to them globally: Racism, Violence, Poverty, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Health and Environment.
Summit will work on improving the quality of media education for youth through the diversification of contents and methods and the promotion of universally shared values. The results of the Summit will promote media education as a fundamental right on media space for youth in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Also, we will promote experimentation, innovation and the diffusion and sharing of information and best practices as well as policy dialogue in media education like strong tool for building better future, peace and democracy.
Young delegates will be in the SEVEN Groups: Racism, Violence, Poverty, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Health and Environment. They will prepare declarations and Public Service Announcements on the seven main issues of the Summit.
More information you can find at our web site www.iyms.eu or our blog at www.roamingreporters.net/RRWP