Årsmøte 2023 vil i år holdes fysisk ved Rådhusgata 20 med mulighet til å delta digitalt via Google Meet.

Tid/dato: Tirsdag 29. august kl 18:00-19:30.
Sted: Norsensus Mediaforum, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 OSLO
Digitalt: https://meet.google.com/eem-tiuv-zbb

Alle som ønsker å komme med forslag til saker som ønskes behandlet i Årsmøtet bes gjøre dette innen 25. august til info@norsensus.no

Dagsorden

• Gjennomgang av aktiviteter gjennomført i 2022-2023
• Presentasjon av pågående og nye prosjekter
• Gjennomgang av årsmelding, årsregnskap og økonomien i organisasjonen
• Valg av nytt styre

Hva skjer på årsmøtet?
Årsmøtet er det høyeste organet vi har, og bestemmer hva Norsensus Mediaforum som barn og ungdom organisasjon skal jobbe med fremover. 

Årsmøtet skal blant annet behandle årsmelding, regnskap, sette kontingenten for neste år og budsjett.
Årsmøtet er også en arena for deg å bli kjent med andre engasjerte mennesker i Norsensus Mediaforum.

Hvem kan delta?
● Alle medlemmer kan delta på årsmøtet. Kun medlemmer som har betalt kontingent for forrige kalenderår har stemmerett.
Dersom du er usikker på om du har betalt din kontingent hos oss kan du kontakte oss på info@norsensus.no

Hvordan melder man seg på?
● Meld deg på ved å sende epost til info@norsensus.no
● Påmeldingsfristen er 25 august 2023.

Vi oppfordrer alle til å delta og bidra med deres tanker og ideer.

Det blir enkel servering av mat og drikke og mulighet til å sosialisere etter møtet.
Vi gleder oss til å se dere!

Platform for development of school volunteering officially kicked off on the 23^rd of November 2022, by the partners’ meeting, opening new space for school volunteering development and advocacy.

The purpose of the project is to systematize the long-term practice and efforts of the Local Democracy Agency Sisak and educational institutions in the ​​Sisak-Moslavina County (SMC) for the development of school volunteer clubs through the establishment of the Platform for development of school volunteering, as a place of education, exchange and advocacy towards the decision makers.

Local Democracy Agency Sisak is implementing the project during the 15 months in the Sisak-Moslavina County area, partnering with Vocational School Sisak, Human Right House Zagreb, and Norsensus Mediaforum from Norway. 

The partners gathered at the online meeting where the project manager, Paula Raužan, presented the project itself, project activities, and the role of each partner.

The partners agreed on the first steps towards conducting research on good practices and the needs of educational workers and students for practical teaching of the content of civic education. Research results will be the basis for the initiation and operation of the program of Platform for the Development of School Volunteering.

The project aims to create a precondition for the systematic support to schools in SMC by strengthening their capacities for development and implementation of practical and engaging contents on topics such as active citizenship, social justice and social inclusion.

The platform consists of schools in which volunteer clubs exist and those schools that are interested in developing this type of extracurricular activities. The backbone of the work of school volunteer clubs is collaborative (co-creative) work of teachers and students in detecting the needs and problems of the community, finding the best solutions, and implementing concrete actions.

The volunteer club will be developed at the Vocational School Sisak in which the innovative methods and approaches designed through the Platform will be tested.

Teachers participating in the Platform work will be educated on running the school volunteer’ clubs focusing on the social justice topics and will get to know Norwegian good practice on civic education and volunteering in formal educational system.

The project “Platform for the development of school volunteering” is supported with € 87.870,00 financial support from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway within the European Economic Area and Active citizens fund.

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The content in tis text is the sole responsibility of the Local Democracy Agency Sisak and does not necessarily reflect the views of the donor countries and the Fund Manager.

Read more about the project

We hosted trainers and experts in the field of media education from Romania in an inspiring exchange of best practices and ideas. 

«MEDIA CIVIC ENGAGERS» was the name of the meeting that spanned several days, during which the we and our local partners shared with the participants from Romania how democracy and civic involvement, mass media and social media, public health and sustainability, are naturally integrated concepts in the process of learning of pupils in compulsory education in Norway. 

The participants first met Norsensus experts for an introduction of the each team and learning about the media literacy, active citizenship and social practices in Norway. Afterward, the participants played an educational Augmented reality scavenger gamed, developed by Norsensus specifically for this visit. The players completed challenges assigned to them while learning about Norwegian civil society, education system and media literacy.

The last day of the exchange, we visited neighboring town, Drammen. One of the meetings in the city was with Professor Heidi Biseth, from the Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science, from the University of South-Eastern Norway.  

With extensive research focusing on democracy, multiculturalism, human rights and social justice in the education sector, from primary school to teacher training, Heidi Bieth is an expert in teaching media education in schools. 

She showed the partners from Romania how the subjects in the school curriculum are thought out in Norway, adapted for a labor market and a life that comes with other challenges than those of the present.

The meeting was one with many ideas to remember and take home. The proof is the diary pages kept by Ioana Avădani, the president of the Center for Independent Journalism (CJI). You can read it from this link.

The intensive visit ended with a lot of inspiration and motivation learning from each other.

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The «MEDIA CIVIC ENGAGERS» meeting was organized within the project «I teach media education! – The media education and culture laboratory”, run by the Center for Independent Journalism (CJI), in partnership with Norsensus Mediaforum and the Rădăuțiul Civic Association, with the financial support of Active Citizens Fund Romania, a program financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through EEA Grants 2014- 2021. The content of this material does not necessarily represent the official position of the EEA and Norwegian Grants 2014-2021; for more information go to www.eeagrants.org . Information about Active Citizens Fund Romania is available at www.activecitizensfund.ro .

Funded by NordPlus, the HEALTHY Project is here to empower adult trainers and educators to guide socially vulnerable groups towards a healthier lifestyle, all while developing valuable digital skills!

The pandemic undeniably disrupted our routines, impacting our physical and mental well-being. The HEALTHY Project tackles this head-on by providing an innovative online resource for adult trainers. This comprehensive program consists of three key modules:

• Physical Activities: Learn effective strategies to promote movement and exercise, fostering a love for an active lifestyle.
• Healthy Eating: Gain valuable knowledge about balanced nutrition, making healthy choices readily achievable.
• Mental Health Awareness: Develop skills to address and manage stress, anxiety, and emotional well-being.

The Power of Knowledge Shared

The beauty of the HEALTHY Project lies in its multiplier effect. By equipping adult trainers with the latest information and tools, we enable them to effectively pass this knowledge on to people from socially vulnerable groups. This empowers individuals to adopt healthy habits and improve their overall well-being.

Technology: Your Ally in a Healthier You

The HEALTHY Project embraces the power of modern technology. We’ll be using innovative tools to:

• Record project activities for future reference and knowledge sharing.
• Complement learning modules with engaging and interactive elements.
• Motivate participants with interactive features that keep them engaged in the program.

A Collaborative Journey

Spread over 18 months, the HEALTHY Project fosters collaboration through four partner meetings held in Lithuania, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark. This international exchange allows us to share best practices and ensure the project’s effectiveness across borders.

Empowering Trainers, Transforming Lives

The project’s ultimate goal is to equip adult educators with the knowledge and skills to:

• Improve their understanding of how to promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Harness the power of social media and digital tools to make learning engaging and accessible.
• Effectively train others to make positive health choices and embrace a more fulfilling life.

Join us on this journey to a healthier future! The HEALTHY Project is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of individuals and communities. Stay tuned for further updates and exciting developments!

Årsmøte 2021 vil i år holdes fysisk ved Rådhusgata 20 med mulighet til å delta digitalt via Google Meet.

Tid/dato: Onsdag 27. oktober kl 18:00-19:00.
Sted: Norsensus Mediaforum, Rådhusgata 20, 0151 OSLO

Alle som ønsker å komme med forslag til saker som ønskes behandlet i Årsmøtet bes gjøre dette innen 20. oktober til info@norsensus.no

Dagsorden

• Gjennomgang av aktivitetene i 2020-2021
• Presentasjon av nye prosjekter
• Gjennomgang av årsregnskap og økonomien i organisasjonen
• Endringer i «§2 Formål» i vedtekter knyttet til spesifisering og utvidelse av arbeidsområdene til Norsensus Mediaforum

Generalforsamling 2020 vil i år holdes digitalt via Google Meet og vil finne sted torsdag 27. august kl 18:00-19:00.

Vi skal i år også velge et nytt styre og alle som ønsker å stille til valg eller foreslå kandidater bes gjøre dette innen 24. august til info@norsensus.no

Dagsorden

• Gjennomgang av aktivitetene i 2019-2020
• Prensetasjon av nye prosjekter
• Valg av nytt styre

ENpower Workshop goal was to gain understanding of Ukrainian context in regards to youth sector and cross sector cooperation for supporting young people. The information and expertise collected during the one-day event was then used in adapting the ENpower training toolkit, training course and mentorship program to local challenges regarding entrepreneurship education and youth employment.

ENpower workshop was organized in 16-17 June 2018, in Lviv, Ukraine, with relevant stakeholders from private sector, universities, youth and student organizations, and partners’ representatives. The 15 experts supported ENPower partners in understanding challenges that both young people and employers/entrepreneurs face on the labor market and in the opening and running local businesses.

We learned that when they want to open a business, young people from Ukraine face the following challenges:

• lack of valuable entrepreneurship formal or non-formal educational programs;
• lack of career counseling in schools;
• lack of the entrepreneurship initiative and entrepreneurship attitude (low levels of self-awareness, consciousness, autonomy, self-confidence, critical thinking and strategic thinking, creativity, risk taking, decision making were identified by the experts we interacted with);
• high bureaucracy and taxes for running businesses and unstable political and economic system;
• financial pressure that makes them to find a job as quickly as possible to support themselves and their families and give up any entrepreneurship initiative they might have;
• lack of mobility from one region of Ukraine to another, caused by cultural habits;
• lack of good and healthy business networks.

The participants to the workshop also provided valuable information on the challenges faced by young people when searching for a job or by employers and entrepreneurs when they want to hire young people for the vacant position they have. The ENpower project does not aim and cannot to solve and address all the challenges identified in the Ukrainian context. Most of the challenges are structural, culturally, politically or economically determined. The project, through the training and mentorship programs, aims at addressing challenges related to the young people’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes, but also some of the challenges related to the lack of proper entrepreneurships education programs or career counselling programs. 

ENpower project – Bridges to ENpower. Cross-sectorial initiative to support the young people in their quest for ENtrepreneurship – is co-funded by European Commission, through Erasmus+ Programme (KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices -Capacity Building in the field of Youth), and implemented by Rehionalnyj Blahodijnyj Fond «Rezonans» (Resonance Foundation, Ukraine, lead organization), Fundatia Danis pentru Dezvoltare Manageriala (Fundatia Danis, Romania), Norsensus Mediaforum (Norsensus, Norway) and Fundacja Aktywnych Inicjatyw Rozwoju (FAIR, Poland).

Bridges to ENpower aims to improve the quality of youth work in Ukraine, in the field of entrepreneurship education for young people, and to foster cooperation and exchanges between youth organizations from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Norway.

Kvalitets journalistik, selvsensur og kompetente medieforbrugere er nødvendige ingredienser for demokratiet. Ny rapport fra Nordisk Ministerråd kaster lys på udfordringer og dilemmaer omkring “Fake news” og giver bud på, hvordan medier og journalister håndterer den nye virkelighed.

“Fighting Fakes – The Nordic Way” er utviklet av Nordisk Ministerråd og offentliggjort for at vise andre dele av verden, hvor de nordiske udfordringer er og hvordan vi håndterer dem.

Last ned boka:

The National Association of Public Librarians (ANBPR) and Libraries in Romania in cooperation with Norsensus Mediaforum invites you to workshop on visual education, cultural advertising and creative thinking for cultural promoters.

The workshop will take place at Anker Hotel, Oslo on 15th and 16th August.

Day 1 – Tuesday, 15 of August, 2017

10:00 – 10:30 Registration of participants and welcoming networking
10:30 – 11:00 Informal presentations and guests introducing
11:00 – 11:30 Norsensus Mediaforum – Norwegian experience in visual education,
cultural advertising and creative thinking field

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 12:30 – The Alliance for Regional Economic Development – ARED – an Innovative
Approach of Culture through Visual Education & Design Thinking
12:30 – 13:00 Conclusions and Q&A session
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Networking
14:00 – 15:30 How we can create attractive and engaging promotional materials for
cultural entities. Advertising, Arts Fusion & Design – Structured interactions between
partners and cultural promoters, based on organizational experiences of participants

Day 2 – Wednesday, 16 of August, 2017

10:00 – 10:30 Free debates and knowledge exchange between cultural promoters, with
the facilitation of the Romanian and Norwegian experts – projections, case studies, best
practices
10:30 – 11:00 Visual education for start-up cultural NGOs – ALMA RO presentation
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Visual and Design Skills – added value for cultural promoters. Successful
examples from Norsensus Mediaforum own portfolio
12:00 – 13:00 Practical demonstrations and collecting feedback, with the facilitation of
the Romanian and Norwegian experts
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and  Networking

Free registration

Please send us email at info@norsensus.no or fill out the registration form below.

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NGO representatives, migration experts, journalists and bloggers from all over the Nordic countries came to Oslo for a three-day storytelling seminar at Literaturehuset 6-8 June 2017.

Story Seekers focused on effective storytelling techniques for inclsuion work and advocacy. The workshop brought together those who are actively working on issues of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants, journalists, and bloggers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

The participants from Amnesty International Sweden, Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Red Cross, KFUK-KFUM Global, University of Oslo, De Blå Stjerner, Centre for Youth Integrated Development (CYID), Finland-Somalia Association, Performance Collective, Åland Islands Peace Institute, Arctic Media, Stockholm University, Press, Mangfoldhuset and Apv25 exchanged their experiences in the field and explored new tools and techniques from the experts from Norsensus Mediaforum, Pocket Stories, VG, NRK, LO Media, Open Society Foundations and University of Oslo.

In addition to practice orineted workshop sessions led by Paula Beudean, Ingi Mehus, Dick Williams and Vedat Sevincer, Tom Byermoen from VG, Nora Ibrahim from NRK, Øystein Windstad from LO Media and Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk from University of Oslo shared their knowledge and experience on digital storytelling, audience engagement, visual storytelling and media narrative.

The goal of the workshop was to enable good practices and experience sharing in Nordic region, increase participants competences in storytelling and organizations’ ability to communicate effectively with the community while enhancing collaboration with journalists and bloggers to increase understanding of media inclusion.
Story Seekers is carried out by Norsensus Mediaforum in collaboration with Pocket Stories and supported by the Open Society Foundation and Unit for Diversity and Integration (EMI).

More info about the seminar and the project:

https://norsensus.no/reports/story-seekers-norway/

Last week, Google announced the launch of Perspective, an API that helps online platforms and publishers host more civil conversations and keep away hateful trolls.

Many readers and publishers share the ideal of the internet as a global forum for comment, debate and exchange of ideas. But in practice, maintaining this ideal has not always been easy. The daunting task of sifting through and moderating thousands of reader comments has driven platforms to turn off comment rights, and users to be wary of expressing themselves or engaging with contentious opinions. For publishers, this can result in less engaged readers and a diminished sense of reader community. It’s a serious business challenge.

It’s also a technological challenge that Google has decided to tackle. Thanks to advancements in machine learning, Google has been able to build models that can analyze text and score it based on historic data and its perceived impact on conversation. The API Google has released will give access to these models, starting with a “toxicity” score (i.e. whether a comment could be perceived as “toxic” to a discussion).

Publishers can then use this score to give realtime feedback to commenters, help moderators do their job, or allow readers to easily find relevant information. Our hope is that Perspective will become a key part of publishers’ ability to analyze comment language at scale, and thus facilitate an open and constructive commenting community.

Google started with a handful of experimental partnerships (The New York Times, Wikipedia, The Guardian and The Economist) to explore how our API could be helpful. Today Google want to give all DNI members privileged access, so that they can experiment and build their own tools. Google’re dedicating a development team to the project, who will provide technical support and ansGoogler questions that might arise. The API is initially only available in English, but Google will be expanding to other languages – and would value publishers help to do so.

How it works

Perspective reviews comments and scores them based on how similar they are to comments people said were “toxic” or likely to make someone leave a conversation. To learn how to spot potentially toxic language, Perspective examined hundreds of thousands of comments that had been labeled by human reviewers. Each time Perspective finds new examples of potentially toxic comments, or is provided with corrections from users, it can get better at scoring future comments.

Publishers can choose what they want to do with the information they get from Perspective. For example, a publisher could flag comments for its own moderators to review and decide whether to include them in a conversation. Or a publisher could provide tools to help their community understand the impact of what they are writing—by, for example, letting the commenter see the potential toxicity of their comment as they write it. Publishers could even just allow readers to sort comments by toxicity themselves, making it easier to find great discussions hidden under toxic ones.

Source: Google

Nowadays, there is so much misinformation that we feel down sometimes in our struggle against ingnorance and changing people’s thoughts. How about I say it is a futile struggle to try to convince people about their failures and skewed opinions. This bold statement is based on a what is commonly known as «backfire effect». Then you may ask:

If there is any hope to ever reach people who refuse to accept facts – is there any chance to change people’s minds with evidence, reason, or scientific consensus?

In this engaging podcast, David McRaney tries to find answer to them by talking to some experts. Yes how do we fight againt backfire effect and change people’s minds? Enjoy it

Youth workers from 9 countries were initiated in connecting the art of storytelling with organizational development, together with other youth workers from nine European countries, within Story-down walls! training course, supported by the Erasmus+ Programme.

The training course, organized by Norsensus Mediaforum from Norway and Fundatia Danis from Romania, took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, at the end of November 2016. The event brought together youth workers from Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey.

The catalyst for offering this workshop was to explore storytelling as a way of organizational and personal development.

«In a time of chaos of information, we need good story-tellers in civil society for reaching the heart of the people and sustainable organizational development. Well curated stories have a key role here. We witness many disturbing stories that are shaping our life and worldviews and there is a big need to tell new stories on youth workers’ side. This workshop idea has been initiated with these thoughts”, said one of the main trainers of the workshop, Vedat Sevincer (Norsensus Mediaforum, Norway).

During the six-day training course, the youth workers experienced in various forms the storytelling mind-set, and developed skills and knowledge related to story thinking, story structure, and storytelling techniques. Moreover, they learned to connect their personal stories to the organization’s stories and to their clients’ stories. And, for making their organizations more sustainable, the youth workers tried out various storytelling techniques for advocacy and fundraising activities. Finally, the participants made the plan on how they will use the storytelling in the future, for themselves and for their organizations.

“I am working with thousands of teachers and children, and each one of them is a story meant to be heard. It is a story about how education can change Romania in a country you want to live in, it is a story about how each citizen should fight for the common good. This training helped me a lot in how to tell the stories of these amazing heroes that I work with every day”, Lidia, one of the participants, sharing what the training will help her at work.

“I want to write again. My life is a hero’s journey with a petal structure and a fight between hope and reality. And I am still here. I’m alive and I want to share with the world what I think or what I feel”, Rosa, one of the youth workers, sharing her thoughts on what the training week meant to her.

Find out more about the training and the work done by the youth workers on the training blog:

https://norsensus.no/storydown/

Also, check the photos from the training here:

https://flic.kr/s/aHskPzMvQh

Story-down walls! Sustainable and Innovative Storytelling Strategies Training Course

Rounding up support from Norwegian National Agency, Aktiv Ungdom, the project was carried out in the frame of Erasmus+ KA1 program. The training aimed at professionalizing youth workers in developing long-term storytelling strategies for their organizations, in order to reach community and financial sustainability.

The coordinating organization of the workshop was Norsensus Mediaforum from Norway and the partner organizations as following:

• Fundatia Danis pentru Dezvoltare Manageriala (Romania)
• Volunteer Development Foundation (Poland)
• Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (Spain)
• Youth Art Research and Training Association (Turkey)
• Programma Integra (Italy)
• Asociacija Apkabink Europa (Lithuania)
• The Change Is in You (Bulgaria)
• Center for Education and Development (Macedonia)

The main trainers of the workshop were Vedat Sevincer from Norsensus Mediaforum, Norway, and Paula Beudean from Fundatia Danis, Romania. The co-trainers were: Urszula Puchalska (Volunteer Development Foundation, Poland) and Abdurrahim Gunaydin (Norsensus Mediaforum, Norway).

In the frame of YourKITE Erasmus+ project, 18 young trainers from Norway, Poland and Romania met in Ighiu, Romania for a one week workshop. The participants between 18 to 25 learned developing workshops for youth, on media and communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering, and labour market, during the training.

The Norwegian and Polish team first met in Budapest and took a long bus ride together to Cluj-Napoca, where they met the Romanian participants. Thereafter, all arrived in the training venue, which is located in historic small village near Alba.

The first day of the training started with the integration and training methodology. In the following day the participants continued to explore the methodological elements of conducting a successful workshop for young audiance with facilaition of Urszula Puchalska.

In the afternoon, Abdurrahim Gunaydin and Vedat Sevincer introduced visual communication and media session, where the participants learned about visual design, stop-motion animation as a tool of communication and developing media strategy.

The evening of the day was sealed with a colorful cultural evening where the representatives shared traditions, foods and culture of their respective countries.

The next day was devoted to entrepreneurship and volunteering. Paula Beudean showed the essentials of entreprenurship with some engaging activities, while Urszula Puchalska conducted an interactive session about volunteering. As a part of integration and knowing the local culture closer, the participants in group got chance to visit in the afternoon Alba, the largest citadel of Romania, and the former capital of Transylvania.

Mariusz Boguszewski led the following day’s workshop on labor market, where he provided practical information about career planning.

As the young participants were introduced to the essential of the main topics of the training, the rest of program was devoted to practicing what they learned and tryin out the high volume toolkit prepared by the porject partners, Norsensus Mediaforum, Fundatia Danis, FRSI and FRW. They, in pair, prepared and conducted sample workshops making use of the ready made scenarios in the toolkit and the knowledge they gained during the first part of the training.

While they applied the workshop scenarios with the rest of the group, they got feedback about their performance in the light of the training methodology.

The program ended with a comprehensive evaluation of the whole training and reflection on the future implications for the participants.

The training was held from September 11-17, 2016 to provide basic training skills, and practical knowledge on entrepreneurship, volunteering, career counselling, and media and communication, as a part of Erasmus+ Aktiv Ungdom supported Your Kite project.

The participants are to deliver in their community three workshops about the topics they learned to youth between 14-17 years old. They will use YourKite toolkit as a guideline in their workshops.
The workshops will be 1.5 hour each; delivered in pairs, in their own language, in October-November 2016.

Norsensus Mediaforum shared ideas on civil society cooperation between Norway and Croatia at the bilateral meeting on 13th and 14th of June at the IMPACT – European Centre for Cross-Sector Partnership in Zadar, “Different perspectives towards cooperation”.

The program was organzied by The National Foundation for Civil Society Development acting as the operator of NGO Fund in Croatia in the context of the EEA and Norway grants.
At the beginning of the program, an exhibition of project results in the country was displayed. Project promoters gathered in order to showcase the results of the projects that had been run under the Croatian NGO Programme. The exhibition was followed by a session of presentations and discussions on connections and networking as tools for bilateral partnerships and the current state of civil society in Croatia. The session was attended by HE Astrid Versta, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway in Croatia who held the opening speech. Prsentations were made by Cvjetana Plavša-Matic and Goran Momcilovic from the National Foundation, Enver Đuliman from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Antilla Paivi from the Financial Mechanism Office.

The second day of the conference was reserved for group work, where representatives of organizations from Norway, Slovenia and Hungary worked together with the representatives of Croatian associations discussing the methods and strategies of cooperation with partners from donor countries. The Norwegian delegation included Voksenopplæringsforbundet, Norsensus Mediaforum, Change the World, Red Cross Norway and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

Read more at NGO Norway

On 14 and 15 May the final conference was held in Bulgarian town, Panagyurishte in the frame of «Break the silence project- a campaign for awareness, prevention and protection against domestic violence and violence based on gender». The mayor of the municipality of Panagyurishte Nicola Belishki, commissioner Blaga Kraycheva, head of regional directorate of interior in Pazardzhik, Petko Shotlekov, Chair of District Court Panagyurishte, Snezhana Stoyanova and representatives and students from the cities which involved in the campaign.

The event opened with the local cheerleading team’s performance.

-We hold this conference in this city for two reasons. The municipality and project coordinator in the city Sylvia Bobekova contributed alot to the project. There were a lot of activities related to our porject in public, media and at schools. Moreover Panagyurishte is a city with rich history and culture, said Valentin Lazarov, president of the National Association of Municipal Clerks in Bulgaria and project manager.

«I am happy with the presence of young people in the hall, because we have to work together against the problem of domestic violence, starting from the family. Silence really should be broken, we can achieve good results. Panagyurishte municipality is actively involved in this process and will continue to do so in the future, «said Mayor Nicholas Belishki.

He also thanked Norsensus Mediaofrum representatives in the hall for allocating resources and time to share their experiences.
In addition to presentations about legal framework, participants presented good examples of activities carried out in different cities during the project period.
The representatives of Norsensus Mediaforum, as partner of the project, presented shared the experiences and best practices in Norway on the topic of domestic violence.

The project is carried out by National Association of Municipal Clerks in Bulgaria in partnership with Norsensus Mediaforum. It aims to reduce violence based on gender by raising awareness and knowledge among the victims of violence based on gender, vulnerable communities and the society as a whole.
Implementing in Bulgaria with leading Norwegian experience in creating and conducting media campaigns for prevention of violence based on gender through increasing the recognition and visibility of the problem among the victims and the society and to promote zero tolerance of such violence.

Specific objectives of the project:
-to multiply the Norwegian experience in creating and conducting media campaigns in 10 cities of the country through the established teams /local coalitions/, which will become cores to achieve the objectives of the project in the planned regions;
-to create conditions for victims of domestic violence (DV) and violence based on gender (VBG) to share their stories about domestic violence through personal involvement in the campaign “Break the Silence”;
-to inform general public about the processes and possibilities for prevention and protection of DV and VBG victims;
-to conduct a media campaign for intolerance towards domestic violence (DV) and violence based on gender (VBG) and to engage the society to cope with the problem;
-to build sustainable models of communication, dialogue and partnership with institutions, who realize the government policy on protection and prevention of DV and VBG victims, NGOs dealing with the problem and the local administration.

Project Website (Bulgarian)

On this podcast episode, Andy Sellars of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic discusses coyright issues in relation to tweets and jokes.

Summary

With 316 million users posting 500 million tweets a day, someone is bound to write an unoriginal tweet now and then.

But there are some Twitter users whose entire existence relies completely on plagiarizing tiny jokes and relatable observations created by other Twitter users. Many plagiarizing accounts have follower numbers ranging from the thousands to the millions. Meaning their exposure can lead to career opportunities and sponsorships built on the creativity of others who are just getting started in their writing careers.

So it was not without excitement that Twitter users found out last week that they can report plagiarizing accounts to Twitter under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and have these copied tweets removed.

But now we’re forced to ask the question: are jokes protected under copyright?

Source: Berkman Harvard

YourKITE media and entrepreneurship project continues in Poland. Last week another meeting in the frame of the project was held by FRSI – Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego – together with Fundacja Rozwoju Wolontariatu/Volunteering Development Foundation for the other project partners – Fundatia Danis pentru Dezvoltare Manageriala (Romania) and Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) in Warsaw.

In the course of one week, November, 29 – December, 3, there were organised several trainings and workshops with the focus on engagement of volunteers, entrepreneurship for youth and career counselling. Also the participants visited University of Warsaw Library to have a round table on youth entrepreneurship in Poland and the organisation for social entrepreneurship in Warsaw where they had a lecture on the challenges and benefits of social cooperatives driven by young people.

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Your Kite Project aims to develop digital media and communication skills of young people, and promote volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promotes entrepreneurship within youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people.

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Norsensus Mediaforum provides visual storytelling and communication workshops to Bulgarian NGOs, insitituions and teachers working for prevention of domestic violence.

Break the Silence Project starts in Bulgaria. The project is carried out by National Association of Municipal Clerks in Bulgaria in partnership with Norsensus Mediaforum. The project aims to train and mobilize institutions and activists in Bulgaria against domestic and gender based violence. Norsensus mediaforum provides media and communication training for the participants and helps them to increase the impact of their work with effective communication methods.

In the frame of the project activities, more than 40 activists, teachers and officials from all over the country attended to visual storytelling and communication startegy workshop between 26 and 28 October. In the workshops held in Sofia, the participants were introduced to visual storytelling techniques and tools as well as the principles of better communication and an effective advovacy by using various media tools.

National Evrope TV geatured the workshop.

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En ny spennende dag med filmer på VISUALIZE IT mediaverkstedet. Fredag lærte ungdommer litt om videoredigering i Adobe Premier.

Først viste Babatunde Oluwalana, filmstudent fra Westerdals Oslo ACT, hvordan forskjellige verktøy i programmet brukes. Etterpå startet ungdommer å redigere sine egne filmer som de laget torsdag.

Katarina Vlkova, en av de deltakerne, mener de lærte mye nyttig: «selv om vi hadde for lite tid til å gjøre våre filmer perfekte, klarte vi å lære de grunnlegende prinsipper av videoredigering i dette programmet. Og alt bare i løpet av 3 timer!»

Ungdommene var veldig interesserte i filmings- og redigeringsprosessen, mange viste mye kreativitet på verkstedet. Noen til og med klarte å lage nesten profesjonelle filmer.

Next step in VISUALIZE IT was video filming and editing.

On Thursday Babatunde Oluwalana, film student from Westerdals Oslo ACT, came to teach the students how to use camera to make films. On Friday participants were supposed to edit what they had filmed.

Baba began with his school projects. The youngsters liked best a short horror film where a sofa sucked a man inside.

Afterwards the participants were divided into several groups of 3 and 4 and got the script to base their films on. It was a scary story about a ghost in the library. Firstly, the participants decided on the roles of director, cameraman and 2 actors. After that the «action» began.

It took almost 2 hours to fulfill all the thoughts and ideas and, of course, to argue a bit with directors and cameramen. At the end of the workshop everyone was quite happy with the results and looked forward to editing.

On Wednesday there was a workshop on Photoshop, where Sven Inge Røste, media and communications student at University College of Oslo and Akershus, showed the teenagers five very simple but exiting techniques, often used in editing images.

Firstly, participants were supposed to edit an already well photoshopped picture of Justin Bieber. Everybody learned how to select an area to edit in different ways, move it and correct minor errors. It was fun.

In addition, Sven Inge showed the youngsters how to change colors of the image, correct spots and combine different images to get a new one. All participants managed to get interesting results.

It was hard to stop young people from editing images. Some of them managed to create several greeting cards for Halloween. Only the smell of food could disturb them already at 3 p.m..

The next VISUALIZE IT workshop was held in another room of Oslo Public Library and was very cozy. That day youngsters learned how to draw and sketch.

Dovile Puzinaite, graphic designer from London, showed the young how easy it is to start drawing. Although it requires a lot of patience and focus. Firstly, everybody tried to draw a simple lamp, but in then proceeded with more advanced objects. Some even managed to draw a celebrity or a friend.

The main thing that youngsters learned at this workshop was not to be afraid that something might go wrong in one’s drawing. Even the most famous painters use sketches that sometimes look rather primitive and messy.

Someone pointed out that the drawing process is somewhat similar to meditation. You become calmer and more focused on your thoughts.

On Monday, 28 September, during the autumn school holidays, our new project for youth VISUALIZE IT started at Deichmanske public library.

Abdurrahim and Vedat began a number of media workshops with a brief introduction to visualization. Firstly, 16 young people with different backgrounds shared some information about their exciting lives with the help of fast sketches, while the others tried to guess what they were doing.

In addition, the teenagers learned that day how to create their own font by drawing it yourself and then print.

Introduction seminar ended with some hard work in Adobe Illustrator in order to make a unique print on individual T-shirts that all the participants would receive at the end of the week.

YourKITE media and entrepreneurship project has officially started. In the frame of the project, Norsensus Mediaforum hosted a training in October 4-11 in media and communication for the project partners, FUNDACJA ROZWOJU SPOLECZENSTWA, INFORMACYJNEGO- Poland, Fundacja Rozwoju Wolontariatu/Volunteering Development Foundation- Poland, and Fundatia Danis pentru Dezvoltare Manageriala- Romania.

During the one week training visit, the project partners learned about visual storytelling, and using digital media tools as a part of entrepreneurship, and individual and organizational development. Also the partners visited Oslo Akershus University College to meet and have a lecture with associate professor Robert Wallace Vaagen and Barne- og ungdomsorganisasjonene i Oslo (Ungorg) to learn about volunteerism and youth work in Norway.

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Your Kite Project aims to develop digital media and communication skills of young people, and promote volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promotes entrepreneurship within youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people.

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