Linnégatan 21
413 04 Göteborg
Sweden
- Youth and education
The mission and objective for our media education department is to educate the public, in all countries, on how to "read the media" in what ever form it comes. To build democratically and socially sustainable societies all citizens need to learn where to find information, how to read and interpret it and how to express yourself in what ever media form they may choose.
We work with cities and regions all over Sweden to promote Media and Information Literacy, giving lectures and work shops. For two years we have played an important role in promoting MIL, Media and Information Literacy on all levels in Sweden. This work has been done in cooperation with and on behal of the Swedish National Council for UNESCO, Göteborg Univresity, The Swedish National Agencie for Education, The Swedish Filminstitute and The Swedish media council.
For two years we have, in cooperation with and on behalf of UNESCO worked on building an interactive multi media tool for teachers on how to work with UNESCOs new Curriculum on MIL. UNAOC has also been included in this work.
Folkets Bio had a project on Media and Informatinn Literacy at Cairo University for about three years, supported by SI, The Swedish Institute. During that project we had more contact with other members. We also planned a project with the Universities in Cairo and Barcelona and other Swedish members, in cooperation with the Anna Lindh Foundation.
We have twenty years experience of working with youth and teacher education, especially through the use of moving images. We already have a quite extensive network in Sweden, The Nordic countries, Europe and in quite a few other countries and we are more than happy to share our experiences and contacts.
We have partners in Universities in Northern Africa, espesially in Cairo, who work with Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue, MILID. They are very interested to start projects with us. The University of Cairo is on of the UNESCOs MILID partner Universities and they will host the international MILID week next year. They also want to include their colleagues at universities in Tunisia and Libya in projects with us. We believe that ALF is a great Network for us to work through and hopefully find more partners that are interested in these issues.