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 while simultaneously developing critical understanding.” (Decree of April 1993).
To achieve this mission, the Clemi offers training sessions, educational programmes and events, opportunities of exchange and networking, and pedagogical publications.
The centre focuses on the student-teacher relationship and the importance of professional media literacy education. Training teachers to a better knowledge of the news media system, to the process of analysing and understanding their messages and to their pedagogical use in the classroom. Every year, the Clemi trains between 15.000 and 18.000 teachers in initial or permanent training.
