FilmEd in Media Desk Spain

Professor José Manuel Pérez Tornero, the scientific coordinator of the UAB's FilmEd team, had the opportunity to present the project as part of his lecture "How to insert film in schools" in the Media Literacy conference in Madrid. This meeting, "Community Policies in the Field of Media Literacy", was organized by the MEDIA Desk Spain office in collaboration with ICAA-Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts.

The participants in the meeting discussed, among other topics, about the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission and its continuity within the future Creative Europe Programme 2014-2020 and about media literacy from the perspective of the  European Commission: which is the state of the question, which are its future prospects and how to introduce film literacy in schools.

The meeting was held on November 19^th and was inaugurated by Susana de la Sierra, Director General of ICAA. Among the participants there were Jesús Hernández, Director the Media Desk Office Spain; Cristina Tresserres, Director of the European Observatory on Children's Television; Matteo Zacchetti, Deputy Chief of the DG Information Society and Media Unit; and Carmen Bureau, Director General of Poliedro.