Our Members

The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) is a central governmental agency under the Ministry of Education and Culture and was formed in January 2014. Its tasks include the preservation of films and television and radio programmes as well as research related to them, and the promotion of audiovisual culture. KAVI’s Department for Media Education and Audiovisual Media (MEKU) is responsible for the promotion and coordination of media education at a national level, and the supervision of the provision of audiovisual programmes in Finland from the perspective of protection of children.

We are part of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), an organisation that provide 45.00 students with a meaningful education. Our department provides the weblectures for students. We also run a studio (New Media Services) in which we record knowledge clips for teachers and support livestream webinars.

With over 17,500 students we are one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences in Flanders. At VIVES University College, you can go to five West Flemish cities (Bruges, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare and Torhout) for on-campus and distance learning courses in biotechnology, healthcare, commercial sciences and business administration, industrial sciences and technology, education and social-pedagogical work.

Since 1958, the Institut des Hautes Études des Communications Sociales (IHECS) has been organising master degrees in the field of journalism and communication by articulating media theory and practice. Anchored in the present and turned towards the future, the school makes sure to adjust its teaching to the logics and professional practices thanks to an original dynamic, centred around the pedagogy of the project. This is reflected in particular by the engagement of recognised and qualified professionals and by the significant resources invested each year in high-performance and technologically advanced media and IT equipment.

We are a university of applied sciences that offers international education and conducts applied research for professional practice. Inholland University is located in the western part of the Netherlands and has 8 campusses. The department IVT supports teachers and staff with, video and communication technology, to use hybrid and connected classrooms IVT works closely together with TLT. This Professorship is doing research on Teaching and Learning Technology

MED is the Italian Association for Media Education. It was founded in 1996 by a group of academics, media professionals, teachers, and educators. Among other publications, since 2010, MED has published the journal Media Education. (https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/med/index) MED works in the field of training teachers, school leaders, educators, university students, social workers, and media professionals. It also carries out projects (both national and international) for the experimentation of media education activities in formal and non-formal educational settings. In addition to regional events and training courses, since 1996, it has organised a national Summer School in Media Education. MED is accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education for teachers’ training.

FWU is Germany’s leading producer of audio-visual, didactic, and interactive media for schools. Founded in 1950, it is a non-profit corporation with the 16 Federal States as shareholders. We are involved in national and international projects about media infrastructure for secondary and vocational schools, test procedures for digital educational media, digital identity management and metadata. We are experienced in copyright and licensing issues (especially OER) and have held teachers training and workshops for these areas. We are also interested in machine-readable curricula, ML-based metadata generation, pan-European content hub etc.

Heidelberg School of Education (HSE) is a joint academic institution for teacher education of Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) and University of Education Heidelberg (Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg). HSE fosters interdisciplinary exchange and research on local as well as international levels. One of such initiatives is cooperation with the Teachers College (Columbia University, USA) entitled “Critical Media Literacy”.

Creative Hub GR is the new Hub for Innovation and Technology of the Creative and Audiovisual Sector by the Hellenic Centre for Film, Audiovisual Media and Creation – Creative Greece. The operational objective of the Hub is the development, strengthening, promotion and protection of the audiovisual, cultural and creative sector of Greece and its creators with emphasis on new technologies, innovation and education. The Audiovisual, Media Literacy and Social Action Department of the Hub develops and manages audiovisual education, creative literacy and media literacy programmes in both formal and non-formal education for the development of a critical and informed Media and Information Literacy citizenry. To this end, it organises a range of actions for schools and lifelong learning: school workshops, student competitions, production of Open Educational Resources, design of audiovisual, film and digital literacy programmes, etc. In the same context, it is the national delegate to the EU on media literacy and cooperates with national and global key stakeholders such as UNESCO, the UN, the Council of Europe and OSCE for a strong global media policy agenda. The Department has been coordinating the Euro-Mediterranean Chapter of UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Alliance since 2018, with 55 members-institutions from 11 Mediterranean countries. Currently, the Department is working on the Blueprint on Media and Creative Literacy in Education.