Media Literacy in Adult Education Erasmus Project

General information for the Media Literacy in Adult Education Erasmus Project

Media Literacy in Adult Education Erasmus Project
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Project Title

Media Literacy in Adult Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

“Media literacy in adult education” was Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships project that aimed to develop during 13 months initiatives addressing spheres of adult education and exchanges of experience and best practices at European level. Five organisations from Poland, Estonia, Malta, Greece and Italy created consortium with the aim to contribute to the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme through development and reinforcing network, increasing capacity to operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods. Coordinator was Fundacja Euro-Form (Poland).Partners shared best practices and enhanced the professional development of educators working in the field of adult education. For the purpose to fulfilling these objectives, the project team sustained the creation of flexible learning pathways in line with learners’ needs. The project aspired to contribute to Europe 2020 objectives of competitiveness, employment and growth through more successful labour market integration and mobility. By developing skills in media literacy the project also tackled the issue of unemployment in EU. The specific objectives of this project were to support improvement of the level of key competences and skills of adult educators, those who worked with learners with fewer opportunities. All project partners acquired various media and multi-media abilities applicable to a wide variety of issues. Participants exposed to technology tools that were embedded in purposeful learning, allowing them to transfer knowledge from one tool to another. Educators had the opportunity to improve their competences in planning and running media workshops. Intensification of learning mobility opportunities in this project fortified ties between the field of adult non-formal education and formal education where their learners gained new media competences. The objectives were clearly defined, and addressed issues relevant to the participating organisations and target groups – educators and their adult learners. The proposal has been suitable of realizing synergies between various institutions, by building the capacity of organisations. Work in culturally diverse groups developed solidarity and foster mutual understanding between partners, therefore promoted international cooperation in the field of adult education, reinforced international networking by sharing best practices and capacity building activities, upgraded existing ICT learning, media and multi-media knowledge, acquired new instruments of teaching for adult learners basic key competences and particularly media literacy. Three international meetings in Italy, Malta and Poland and one training course in Greece in combination with local activities were complementary for exchange of best practices and learning from each other. As the one of the main results of this project were intangible, the knowledge, skills, attitudes have been measured by self-assessment mechanisms, interviews and questionnaires. Self-assessment forms were used before and after the training for staff members. They helped to evaluate achievements and generated recommendations for future improvements of project activities. This information was shared with all partners. Questionnaires were used to evaluate project activities and the whole project. Quantitative indicators were used in relation to numbers of participants in different project activities, numbers of meetings with key stakeholders, number of visits to the project Facebook page and number of media coverage (articles, newsletters, press releases, interviews, visibility in social media etc).
Qualitative indicators were used in relation to the quality of the participation and experience, they were based on the answers to questions, interviews with project participants and other stakeholders. The established pluralistic evaluation format also included project documents, interviews and the final report of the whole project. This assessment approaches brought valuable insights that were used to improve programs locally and more broadly. The impact of project have been seen through a variety of specially designed activities, the participants definitely managed to develop their competences on the field of media literacy, both theoretically and practically. During the training course participants come up with entirely new competences, whilst they had the chance to get through a feedback, a procedure which enabled them to detect both their advantages and weaknesses, thus being fully-trained and sufficiently prepared for own workshops in media literacy. Project participants acquired useful online materials related to media and social-media and, in parallel through specific activities, they broadened both their contacts and networks.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 52780 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Euro-Form & Country: PL

Project Partners

  • EUROPEAN PROSPECT Ltd
  • EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
  • GENISTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Associazione Mirabilia