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This blog will serve as a communication tool among the partners of the Mediattivo Europe Partnership Building Activity, organized by Social Cooperative Grado 16 in Milan (Italy), and co – financed by the Youth in Action Programme of the European Commission.
The general objective of this Partnership Building Activity is the creation of a network of European partners having experience in Media Education, or simply in the use of multimedia within youth work – multimedia intended as an educational tool and a tool for the promotion of youth participation to community life – at a local and European level. Its specific objective is that of creating a partnership for the development of International activities focused on the use of multimedia as a tool to promote participation, active citizenship and the right of youth to information, including both access to information and the production of contents.
During a 5 days interactive workshop, 25 participants from 15 organizations of 10 different EU Countries meet in Milan and:
- share experiences and good practices as regards the use of multimedia within youth work
- get in touch with some territorial best practices within Media Education in Youth Work in Milan
- identify project proposals to be jointly developed by the partners
- start the elaboration of feasible project proposals in the perspective of concretely initiating the partnership.
Media Camp – Contents, Funding and Organisational aspects
CONTENTS
As regards the contest and the awareness campaign
- The idea is to engage young persons in many ways, from the “low” level of merely expressing themselves, up to the “advanced” level of creating an awareness campaign, which we propose to be also the content of the Media Camp. In which sense? Let’s suppose that we have many winners (7×9 = 63) coming from different countries and skilled in different media. We could keep the respect issue, but let them decline it into 3 sub-topics:
- Respect nature!; Respect yourself!; Respect the difference!
- And during the camp we could make them produce a campaign on these 3 topics to then disseminate at a European level
- What do you think about that?
FUNDING:
- As we are 9 countries, 7 winners x 9 would mean 63 persons invited to the media camp. As Paolo suggested, the Youth in Action Programme, Action 1.1, sponsors meetings up to 60 young participants, plus 1-2 adult group leaders per group/country (not more). This means that, since we are looking for funding through the Youth in Action programme, we can only afford to have ca. 60 winners.
- Anyway, we are looking for other funding opportunities, as for instance European Cultural Foundation and European Youth Foundation, etc.
ORGANISATION
As regards the organisational aspects of the Media Camp
- I wanted to ask Martin: How is it going? Do you want to communicate something to us? What do you think about the proposal of connecting contest and media camp?
- And I also wanted to ask Malte: How would the Polish group from Y4M take part in the Camp? As participants or organisers? As participants, if they are not winners, we as Grado 16 think that they should pay a fee (and we still have to ask Martin about how many persons could be hosted by and near the Production School). As organisers: We have to see which costs are covered except those that I already listed. Besides that, we would really appreciate very much the Nowy Staw Foundation supporting it locally in Poland.
Media Camp
General Objective
Action Plan
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to use media as a tool for rising participation as well as to transmit a social/political message
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to use different media for increase the inclusiveness of different groups
Specific Objective:
Action Plan
A multimedia camp
Proposed Topics:
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differences
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needs
- respect
Target Group
Youth aged 14-25
Duration:
7 working days (arrival and departing days excluded)
Action Plan
Expected Outcome:
The topic we choose will make the participants reflect on the social issues by producing the media product. Though it will require a preparation process (on behalf of the participants) before the camp!
Methodologies
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learning by doing
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peer - learning – how? Maybe the 20-25 years old youth could function as peer-educators for the 14-19 years old
Draft for RESPECT – Media Contest
- At the moment the title is just “Respect”. We would really like you to brainstorm a little bit more and not just passively accept the first proposal made. Besides, I personally really don’t like my own proposal, which I made only to move your minds for the brainstorming!
Sections and Number of participants
- As anyway the sections were too many, we reduced them to 4, maintaining the age cathegories for 3 of the four sections: Section A – Video; Section B – Words & Images; Section C – Audio; Section D – Awareness Campaign
- This means that for cathegory A, B and C we would have 6 winners x country (3 aged 14-19 + 3 aged 20-25) whereas for section D only 1 winner (the best work, no matter which age), for a total of 7 persons invited to the media camp from every participating country. If a work is presented by a group they will necessarily have to choose 1 representant at the Media Camp (not every body will be able to travel, some will have to participate for the glory.)
- Why so? As we are 9 countries, 7 winners x 9 would mean 63 persons invited to the media camp. As Paolo suggested, the Youth in Action Programme, Action 1.1, sponsors meetings up to 60 young participants, plus 1-2 adult group leaders per group/country (not more). This means that, since we are looking for funding through the Youth in Action programme, we can only afford to have ca. 60 winners.
As regards the contest and the awareness campaign
- The idea is to engage youg persons in many ways, from the “low” level of merely expressing themselves, up to the “advanced” level of creating an awareness campaign, which we propose to be also the content of the Media Camp. In which sense? Let’s suppose that we have many winners (7×9 = 63) coming from different countries and skilled in different media. We could keep the respect issue, but let them decline it into 3 sub-topics:
- Respect nature!; Respect yourself!; Respect the difference!
- And during the camp we could make them produce a campaign on these 3 topics to then disseminate at a European level
- What do you think about that?
Multimedia Contest
General Objective:
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to reach a wider youngster community (disadvantaged youth, but not only)
- to develop and improve youth creative skills, media skills, communication skills
- to foster youth confidence, personal competences
- to encourage youth engagement into society
- to raise awareness through informal education
- to produce an alternative way of raising awareness (through peer-to-peer awareness campaigns)
Specific Objective:
A multimedia Contest on one awareness-raising topic
Target: 14-19; 20-25
Expected number of participants:
Italy 200; Germany 200; UK 100 PL 100; LT 100
Topic: Respect
Sections (proposals)
There could be 2 general sections: advanced and beginners, in order to give the opportunity not only to the skilled people
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Video (spots, documentaries, fictions, short animations, mobile phones…)
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Photo (portrait, photostory, mobile phones)
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Graphics (posters, flyers, , postcards, logo+claim)
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Graffiti, Painting, Comics
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Short story
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Radio (Jingle, audio advertisement, short podcasts, short comedy talk, mobile phones)
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Freestyle (Crazy for Respect)
Expected Outcomes:
Awarding event at the local level
Materials for a campaign about respect at local & European level
Conclusions:
The concluding Action, or better, the follow-up of this project will be the realisation of a Media Camp in which the winners of the local awards will create a common European campaign about RESPECT
Participants: Dave (IT), Natalja (LT), Marina (DE), Jan (PL), Helena (DE), Jens (DK), Camilla (IT)
Here you can download the Working Schedule for the organisation of the Media Contest:
Radiomxt
Radiomxt (http://www.radiomxt.com/) is a web radio created and managed by the young people of the project Spazio Giovani Martesana. It is being realized with the passion to make and to listen to music and the will to talk to the world, to give the news and make transmissions, to listen to the others and to meet new people. Thus, made with the vital energy and the passion of the ones that is 20 or less, certainly with the support of the operators of the Spazio Giovani Martesana.
Spazio Giovani Martesana is a network of operators/ practitioners, projects, services for the youth among the communities of the eastern province of Milano.
Contact information
| Contact address: Via Bertarini 39 | ||
| Post code: 20061 | Town: Milan | Country: Italy |
| Telephone: +39 0292151900 | Fax number: +39 0292151900 | |
| Website: www.radiomxt.com | E-mail: redazione@radiomxt.com | |
Let’s build our umbrella network
Person in charge: Steve Egan - CSV (Community Service Volunteers)
Highlights of the discussion:
Why a media network? Non simply a network, but an organisation of organisations
To have a dedicated staff to:
- access call for proposals and develop applications for EU fundings
- organize trainings, events, seminars, media camps, common projects
- promote campaigns at a European level
- promote non-formal learning/ intercultural learning for young people through new media
- use media to empower young people to take action
Structure:
- a board
- a secretariat (rotating annually/bi-annually among members)
- member assembly
- a formal statute (definition of participation rules)
Available Grants:
1) Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity as a follow-up of this Partnership Building Activity
2) European Youth Foundation – Council of Europe – Cathegory C (Administrative costs for already established European NGOs) – Cathegory A, B
3) European Cultural Foundation
4) Europe for Citizens Programme
5) LLP Programme – Grundtvig (to be used for job shadowing and training of personnel and promote deep knowledge of how different participant organizations actually work)
The network could be open to all our organizations, but should not be a totally open network and be rather an organization with rules and functioning.
Models of already existing networks and umbrella organizations have been mentioned by Steve, Natasha, Paolo.
Outcome:
The first step for the creation of an umbrella network is to apply for the Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity for the deadline of 1st February or next (1st april – 1st june – 1st september …)
This grant would fund organisational costs bound to the establishment of the network, that is 50% of the overall budget (max. € 40.000) for a max. EU funding of € 20.000.
Conclusions:
We should now define roles and responsibilities for:
- search and share already existing models of umbrella organisations (structure, statute, rules)
- identify and better explore the mentioned and further funding opportunities
- prepare a proposal shared by all partners interested in the umbrella organisation
- write the application for the Youth In Action – Action 4.3.X Networking Activity (or/and other)
Participants:
Steve (En) – Martin (Dk) – Jens (Dk) – Davide (Italy) – Paolo (Italy) – Camilla (Italy) – Nataljia (Latvia) – Malte (De) – Natasha (Italy and Macedonia)
Research project on media and youth
Person in charge: Alessandra Carenzio (Cremit)
Highlights of the discussion:
Research project on media and youth concerning 2 questions, on content and methodology:
- Content: Youth participation
- Method: How to get evidences and measure the impact of informal education experiences (volunteering, working with media in an informal setting)
The discussion focused on informal education and youth: need to collect evidence on positive benefits and effects, not only to say that it’s an experience that changes life. Volunteering is like informal learning, the idea is to make a research on the impact of informal learning experiences (media labs etc). on youth and adolescents, which are the benefits of a media experience or of working with media in an informal education method.
Why do I have to give you money to do it and work with media or to organize a camp for youth?
Criteria:
Target: 16 to 25
What do we want to do is:
- To set criteria for mapping European experiences
- To make a map of experiences in informal education field
- To select at least an experience for each country to make an in depth analysis
- To present our best practices and results in different media platform: books, articles, seminars and website to share expertise and models
- To make exchange of methods and to involve people in our research (control methods)
- To get evidences on the effective change…difficult because if you start a project at the end you are different but why? That’s the point
Methods:
- Questionnaire for young people, to understand their interest, opinions, why they decided to make a sort of experience
- Video making (1): ask youth to make a documentary or a video on the experience and then present it in a video competition. Then locally all the people involved gather for this festival and they what all the videos, with a commission and after this session every research group organizes some focus group talking about the experience. The product should be on the same topic.
- Focus group (locally or mixed)
Video making (2): All groups make a new video after the research (double check: how they represent the topic after the project…example identity, socialization, integration, relationship, religion, education, job, money, choices, European citizenship, democracy, environment and ecology what does it mean to be European today)
Outcome:
Video competition (local or European, according to money and people involved)
Conclusions:
Which are the benefits of working with youth, taking care of their growth? Why should I finance a group working with youth with media, informal learning methods and active methods? It’s very difficult to measure and evaluate the impact of those paths as the factors involved are many: personal believes, cultural aspects, people you get to know, personal facts and not only things connected to methods and setting of education. We would like to set criteria and reflect on this topic, trying to present and point out best practices in Europe.
Promoters
CSV (Community Service Volunteers), Cremit, Grupo Comunicar, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Silesia…and other organizations working with adolescents and youth (no profit organization, local associations)
Participants:
Alessandra, Magda (IT), Francesca, Elena, Dalma, Steve, Tomasz, Danuta, Helena (ES)
Radio Network
Person in charge: Fabio Rech (Radio Martesana)
Highlights of the discussion:
Starting from what is already existing, the idea was the creation of a sort of “european hour” every month in every web radio timetable.
Every radio will collect programmes, create a unique file and send it to the other radios of the network
The structure can be flexible and will depend on the number of countries that will join the network
The first thing to do is to collect partners define the technical referents in every organisation, who will deal with the interaction of different systems
Future possibilities are to be drawn after checking the first results
(a question: are language differences a problem or a resource?
Outcome:
In order to work towards the “European hour” joint radio programme, we can start by exchanging very short programmes (25 min long) from each country to be included in a single programme by a different radio every time.
Participants:
Steve, Francesca, Alessandra, Maddalena, Magdalene, Jan, Diliana
A multimedia camp
Person in charge: Malte Koppe (Youth4Media)
Highlights of the discussion:
After a short introduction to the best practices of Youth 4 Media we discussed once again some important aspects to be balanced while planning:
- quality of the media outcome and maximum participation of the youngsters
- balance of non-experienced (non-English speakers) and skilled (English speaking) participants
- balance of “first time participants” and “project hoppers”
We couldn’t agree on a common topic yet. It is up to be discussed if we can focus on a more political (EU, education …) or social (drug prevention, youth subcultures e.g.) issue.
Finally, we agreed that our common project draft should include the profiles of all our participating organizations (present here in Milano).
This means: * video production
* radio production
* designing of a web page / journalism
* photo (documentation)
* (creating an online newspaper)
Those could be the topics of the workshops during the Camp, anyway, it has to be guaranteed, that workshop leaders have the chance to learn in / from the other groups.
Outcome:
The project could be realized next summer. Just before finishing, we thought of the production school in Denmark to be the ideal place to host the camp.
Conclusions:
Including all types of media AND youth with less opportunities as well as educated youngsters will be a hard task. All details have to be set up yet.
Participants:
Fabio, Helena, Jan, Magda, Davide, Zsòfi, Katja, Malte
Job Shadowing & Trainings/Media Camps with multipliers for media work with children
Person in charge: Marina Baenke (Bennohaus)
Highlights of the discussion:
Job Shadowing
goals: to get know organisations, structures and ways, not passive, but active – learning by working with/doing/learning just in time
different duration and frames depends on programmes
possible programme: youth for action/ action 4
Trainings of multipliers
possible age of multipliers: 20-30
possible age of target groups: 8-18 (but also other groups adults, retired people ect.)
methodology: qualification-module, daily workshops, practical lessons
contents: technical and journalistic skill, padagogic and didactic skills
possible duration: 5 days – 14 days
goals: to enable young people to plan, organise and realise media pedagogic projects with interested groups (children, youngsters, adults ect.) and to produce with them tv broadcasts, films, spots, movies, clips, tv documentations, reports; to make the target groups able to deal creatively and critically with different topics (political, social, cultural, topics of the daily life) through media.
Outcome:
Job shadowing:
there are many different possibilities also regarding to get financial supporting of the European programmes, thats why
- step: to show initiative: it can be the person, who would like to do j.sh. Or the organisation, that would like to invite the person. Both sides must be advantages of it.
- To decide, how long can it last, how many persons can be involved, is j.sh. connected with some concrete events or projects,
- to fix the goals of j. Sh.
- To look for suitable programmes
- to write the application
Multipliers Trainings:
for such kind of project we need the place, technical equipment, media-trainer and participants, which can but must not have experience in this field.
The Bennohaus have experience in organisation and realising of such qualification in Germany and it offers technical equipment, media-trainers and the concept. the concept is so flexible, that the contents of the qualification can be done suitable to interests and needs of the participations, with different topics and special fields. This kind of project is creative and has many sides, that it is possible to apply it even as exchange.
Conclusions:
The main problem and the most less experience and the grates fear is the financial side, where can we get money also all questions, that are connected with it: who is responsible for the application, all have their daily life, duties and work. Decision: check situation, possible time -, personal- and technical resources in own organizations and to fix responsible persons, that will initiate the cooparation.
Participants:
Katja, Camilla, Sintija, Zsofia, Malte, Diliana, Jas, Magda
