Medmas
Media Master: enhancing media literacy
INFORMATION
Project duration: giugno 2024 – giugno 2026
Budget: 40.168 euro
Description
Media Master – MEDMAS, is a project co-funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program of the European Union that aims to increase media literacy and civic engagement in nine EU countries, targeting different groups such as secondary school children, university students, educators and journalists.
Objectives
The project focuses on the realisation of a multilingual board game, accompanied by a mobile application, which reproduces real media and news scenarios, simulating false and misleading news and social media content.
The game helps users develop critical thinking skills and recognise misinformation and together with the ap is designed for use even after the project has ended.
The project is divided into 5 thematic work areas and includes 45 events with an involvement of more than 3000 users in debates, conferences, presentations and round tables on media literacy and fake news.
The initiative focuses on involving young people, a generation generally considered difficult to engage in civic dialogues. The aim is to stimulate the younger generation to become proactive citizens by establishing a culture of open discourse and debate through events and digital platforms.
European partners
Thirteen partners from nine European countries collaborate in this project, which is inclusive, committed to gender equality and non-discrimination.
Explora also participates in the partnership as a consortium partner together with:
- Pistes Solidares (FR);
- Polistiko Idryma 1948 (CY);
- Innovation Hive (GR);
- Cesie ETS (IT);
- Istituto Ikigai (ES);
- Sofia University;
- Univerza v Mariboru;
- Younet Aps;
- Casoris;
- Udruga Za Promicanje Tchnicke Kuklture;
- VOXEUROP SCE (FR).
Events and documents
On Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 June, the Explora museum took part in two days of great educational importance thanks to the meeting organised by the Media Master: Enhancing Media Literacy – MEDMAS project, hosted at the editorial office of Scomodo.
The event focused on digital and media education for young people, with an engaging and innovative activity: opening with a workshop on fake news organised by Scomodo’s editorial team, the meeting continued with the testing of a multilingual board game, the result of the MEDMAS project and designed to simulate realistic scenarios related to the media and social networks, with a particular focus on fake, distorted or misleading news.
Read the report of the meeting with students
Read the report of meeting with teachers
Media Masters: enhancing media literacy a project co-funded by the European Program CERV.
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