The Evens Prize for Media Education has been awarded to the Dutch network organization mediawijzer.net for its Media Masters. The Austrian Institute for Critical Digital Culture, Cracked Labs, was awarded the runner-up prize for its online game Data Dealer.
The awards ceremony was held during the Media Meets Literacy conference that the Evens Foundation organized in Warsaw on 21st and 22nd May 2015.
This time the Evens Prize for Media Education focused on an important and omnipresent domain within contemporary media: the social media networks. The title of this prize was “Young People and Social Media: Meeting the Challenges – For projects that contribute to a wiser use of social media”. The aim was to support existing initiatives that contribute to the education of children and adolescents (aged 9-16), directly or through their teachers or parents, so that they use social media in a sensible, constructive and ethical way.