Evens Foundation will highlight 12 good European practices (open call)

The Evens Foundation will highlight 12 good European practices that can inspire others with their work, focusing on projects that actively include parents (and grandparents) in their media educational activities. 

This call is (non-exclusively) looking for projects that: 

• Empower parents to question, evaluate and discuss the media within their household 
• Create awareness among parents that the same ethical rules apply on the Internet as in real life 
• Guide parents how to introduce their children to digital media (smartphones, tablets...) 
• Teach parents and children (together) the mechanics of the new media 
• Raise parents' interest in and understanding of the media activities of their children  Any projects with a similar focus (and that fulfil the criteria listed below) may be submitted.  

The Evens Foundation believes that media education is part of the general education of children, and thus a responsibility that cannot be entirely outsourced to schools or (informal) learning organizations. The scope of this call, therefore, includes European media literacy projects that actively involve (grand)parents. 

The foundation aims to stimulate efforts to increase media literacy in Europe - mainly by raising critical awareness of the media and by encouraging media creativity.

Both of these contribute to the development of highly aware, active and responsible citizens. The Foundation subscribes to the European Commission's view of media literacy as "an extremely important factor for active citizenship in today's information society, as literacy was at the beginning of the twentieth century".

The Foundation continues to support a selection of European projects that contribute to raising the media literacy level of European citizens. After the great success of its publication ‘Media Literacy in Europe: 12 good practices that will inspire you', the Foundation decided to publish a second media literacy magazine in 2015.