Our Members

The Hanze University of applied sciences is the oldest multisectoral university of applied sciences in the Netherlands. In 2023 it will celebrate its 225th anniversary. With branches in Groningen, Assen, Leeuwarden and Amsterdam, the university has approximately 30,000 students and 4,000 employees.

Dublin City University (DCU) is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a distinctive mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Since admitting its first students in 1989, DCU has grown in both student numbers and size and is now a multi-campus university. DCU ranked 1st in Ireland and 19th in the world for graduate employability (2020 QS Graduate Employability Rankings).

IADT is a vibrant Institute of Technology that thrives on new ideas and creativity. IADT is the only Institute of Technology in Ireland with a specific mission to drive and inform the creative, media and cultural industries through teaching research and innovation. We specialise in creativity and innovation as expressed in the arts, technology and entrepreneurship and our reputation supports this. Our programmes embrace the opportunities and challenges of the digital age and are set in an educational environment that values the whole student experience and which attract students from across the country and internationally.

DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle’s centre for international media development, journalism training and knowledge transfer. Our projects strengthen the human right to freedom of expression and unhindered access to information. DW Akademie empowers people worldwide to make independent decisions based on reliable facts and constructive dialogue. DW Akademie is a strategic partner of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. We also receive funding from the Federal Foreign Office and the European Union and are active in more than 70 developing countries and emerging economies. We strengthen sustainable development through media We are journalists, consultants and experts in media and education. Together with our partners, we work to promote free expression, human rights and the development of functioning media systems worldwide. We believe that journalism, education and culture improve people’s lives. Powerful stories support positive social dialogue. People need reliable facts, independent analysis, unbiased presentation and universal access to knowledge. Our five strategic fields of action are: Media and Information Literacy, Media Viability, Media and Journalism Education, Innovation for Dialogue and Media Safety. We also address gender and inclusion, disinformation and AI as cross-cutting topics.

Art Media Design & Instructional Design Technology Program: The Art + Media + Department at East Stroudsburg University prepares students for the most creative and technical fields. Students are equipped with an incredible range of resources to help foster their creative and professional pursuits. Besides, Instructional Design Technology students learn to assess, problem solve, and design pedagogy for more effective learning.

Education Group is a leading centre for innovation in education with longtime expertise in pedagogics, technology and media. It is both a provider and a producer of educational media and engages in media education by providing services such as learning management systems or a media-on-demand platform to Upper Austrian schools, by making teaching materials on media literacy available or by offering seminars/workshops on the use of media in the classroom in close cooperation with teacher training institutions.

As a non-profit association, elan e.V. is actively committed to promoting collaboration among our members in E-learning-supported and cross-campus teaching. Our goal is to support innovative educational formats, facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best practices, and sustainably improve the quality of higher-education instruction.By deploying new media in a targeted way, elan e.V. creates modern and interactive learning environments that benefit both students and teaching staff. Through our work, we provide valuable impetus for forward-looking, high-quality academic teaching that aligns with the needs of a digital society.

The NewMedia Centre (NMC) is a media production and expertise centre for education and research. The centre creates video (in a green screen studio and on location), livestreams, animations, infographics, augmented/virtual reality and is responsible for the university’s lecture capture. NMC experiments, together with lecturers and students, with media technology in education, such as holography, 3D models, AR, 360 video and audio and much more.

Open the Box is a project by Dataninja to promote media, data, AI literacy in educational contexts. Since 2020, we have reached out to more than 6,000 teachers and educators, both in school and out-of-school contexts, who in turn have carried out educational activities with more than 40,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 18. In 2023, the European Commission awarded Open the Box the European Digital Skills Award 2023, first place in the Digital Skills for Education category. Open the Box is accredited for vocational training by the Italia