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STRUCTURED LEARNING FOR AWARENESS IN MEDIA SEMINAR WAS HELD IN SARAJEVO
24.01.2022
In the period 21-24 January 2022, an international seminar was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was attended by young people and experts from the 7 partner organizations in an initiative to inform young people about the reliability of information. The participants in the event were both from the EU and from countries in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey, which since 2019 are implementing the Structured Learning for Awareness in Media project. Joanna Dochevska, Emilia Tsanova, Diyan Atanasov and Syuleyman Syuleyman took part in the meeting on behalf of the Bulgarian sports development association, a partner in the project from Bulgaria.
AIM OF THE PROJECT:
Structured Learning for Awareness in Media - SLAM aims at enhancing young people’s awareness and critical thinking on the role of Mass Media as a challenge and precondition for more inclusive societies towards migrants and refugees.
The Council of Europe’s Report “Media Regulatory Authorities and Hate Speech” (2018) underlines the historical significance of media in enticing and feeding the climate of hatred and violence characterizing West Balkan’s turbulent past. The Balkans are still a primary example of media consciously or even deliberately using hate speech for sensationalistic purposes, thereby supporting it and causing its recurrence and reinforcement at the societal level.
Against this backdrop, the project explores the similarities, differences and potential synthesis among the different yet interrelated challenges faced by West Balkans countries and Europe within a transnational effort aimed at laying the grounds of a greater media literacy and critical thinking at the level of the youth and, by extension, of society as a means to provide an antidote against phenomena of hate speech and a building block of successful integration processes.
PROJECT OUTPUTS:
• Handbook;
• Online platform;
• 5 cultural events;
• 400 interviews/questionnaires;
• 1 conference.
Structured Learning for Awareness in Media project is co-funded under the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
Structured Learning for Awareness in Media - SLAM aims at enhancing young people’s awareness and critical thinking on the role of Mass Media as a challenge and precondition for more inclusive societies towards migrants and refugees.
The Council of Europe’s Report “Media Regulatory Authorities and Hate Speech” (2018) underlines the historical significance of media in enticing and feeding the climate of hatred and violence characterizing West Balkan’s turbulent past. The Balkans are still a primary example of media consciously or even deliberately using hate speech for sensationalistic purposes, thereby supporting it and causing its recurrence and reinforcement at the societal level.
Against this backdrop, the project explores the similarities, differences and potential synthesis among the different yet interrelated challenges faced by West Balkans countries and Europe within a transnational effort aimed at laying the grounds of a greater media literacy and critical thinking at the level of the youth and, by extension, of society as a means to provide an antidote against phenomena of hate speech and a building block of successful integration processes.
PROJECT OUTPUTS:
• Handbook;
• Online platform;
• 5 cultural events;
• 400 interviews/questionnaires;
• 1 conference.
Structured Learning for Awareness in Media project is co-funded under the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
