Include me+
INCLUDE ME+ uses inclusion through mediation to develop a new education programme and empower higher institution educators, digital media providers, civil society organisations, and students to become responsible and active collaborators in shaping the future of digital media so that it contributes to inclusion, participation, and peace-building across Europe.
NCLUDE ME+ is responding to the NEED to improve digital media literacy and combat the negative impact that it can have within communities. This has been exacerbated by COVID, wartime and natural catastrophes in Europe isolate citizens further and pose a threat to resilience, progress and peace. The Include Me+ project aims to make digital media inclusive!
This will be achieved through the collaborative effort of our partnership in developing an educational programme which will empower higher education educators, digital media providers and students to become responsible and active partners in shaping the future of digital media. We aim to create an understanding of digital media as a tool for good, for social justice and inclusion.
Our Include Me+ project will stimulate innovative learning and teaching practices through the development, testing, and implementation of flexible learning pathways and modular course design (part-time, online, or blended) and appropriate forms of assessment. It will also provide collaborative online international learning, research-based learning and blended intensive programmes.
In order to reach our goals it will be created the following educational resources.
Mediation in Media Participatory Action Research. Through this research it will be found out how digital media can use non-formal mediation processes and methods to produce inclusion, participation and peace-building effects. In this process it will also ensure participation of project target groups. In total it contributes to all 3 priorities.
INCLUDE ME+ Training Programme will create a training programme (OERs) that teaches the use of mediation in media as a civic, inclusive method of reporting to all the stakeholders of the digital content creation: media representatives, HE students as active civic content creators, CSOs.
INCLUDE ME IN MEDIA. Documented Stories is an innovative learning and teaching resource that will showcase how mediation can increase civic participation in digital media and motivate media for their peacebuilding role and relevance of their position in support to Ukrainian refugees.
Partners:
Åbo Academy University, Finland
European E-Learning Institute, Denmark
EUCEN, Spain
Momentum, Ireland
Outside, Germany
Solidarity Foundation of the University of Barcelona, Spain
Tuzla, Turkey