Award Topic 2011: Media Education
European Award of Excellence "City for Children" 2011 on the topic of "Media Education"
The Cities of Antwerp and Birmingham are the winning cities of the European Award of Excellence "City for Children" 2011 on media education. The project StampMedia of the city of Antwerp (Belgium) enables children and youngsters to publish media content in a real press agency. The project Keeping IT in the Family of the city of Birmingham (Great Britain) uses a sophisticated method to provide even deprived families with IT literacy: children teach their own families using electronic tools provided by the city administratition.
In category 1 "Participation through new media", the city of Cracow was 2nd and the city of Hannover third winner. In category 2 "Training of Parents and Educators" the cities of Munich and Nis won 2nd and 3rd. Moreover, the cities of Gelsenkirchen and Presov received certificates of special recognition.
On March 16th, 2011, the jury, consisting of the Network's patrons and initiators had congregated and judged the 40 applications from 20 European countries.
All major European cities had been invited to enter the international competition and apply with their best practice projects in the area of media education and media competence of children and young people.
For further information on the call for submission, selection criteria and application procedure, please follow this link.
The documentation of the European Award of Excellence "City for Children" 2011 is now available online.
Call for Submission - 3rd European Award of Excellence "City for Children"
Virtual class rooms, cyber bullying, and mobile uploads – the life of children and adolescents is increasingly influenced by web based, so-called new media. Thus it is necessary to focus on media education and make it a central issue in the educational plan for children and adolescents. The European Award of Excellence 2011 therefore focused on the topic of media education.
Media education is a task for society as a whole. A child-friendly city stands out by the fact that the municipalities take on a central networking function in the instruction of media competence. The following two Award categories have been selected:
1. Participation and Competence: Children should actively involve in political and social processes. Therefore, they need to learn how to independently, safely and responsibly move and express themselves in the virtual space. Municipalities can secure instruction for children and adolescents.
2. Parents and teachers as tutors: Children need competent parents and educators who can support and protect them in their using new media. It is the municipalities’ responsibility to provide further education for parents and teachers and to foster their collaboration with children and adolescents.
Selection Criteria
The submitted project must already have been implemented in your municipality. Further selection criteria are:
Innovation
Expected yield
Acceptance by users
Degree of participation
Transferability to other municipalities
Publicity strategies
- Sustainability
Participants
European cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants were invited to apply, also in cooperation with organisations, associations, institutions, companies, churches and other partners who are involved in running or organizing the projects on the ground.
The jury presented one award for each of these topics.
Application Procedure
The application period started on the 1st of September 2010 and ended on the 1st of December 2010.
Please find the Application Documents here:
