Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) and Norsensus Mediaforum held a three day workshop in Oslo to evaluate the ongoing «Digital Literacy for High School Students to Fight Hate Speech and Discrimination in the Media in Romania» project and visited a number of Norwegian institutions for sharing the experience from the joint project.
The project «Digital Literacy for High School Students to Fight Hate Speech and Discrimination in the Media» aims to contribute towards the education of high school students in the spirit of tolerance and inclusion. It develops media competences that will allow them a critical reception of the media discourse, as well as a responsible presence in the public sphere, as «online content generators». The courses for high school students (country-wise this age group is identified as being highly intolerant) held in 10 cities of Romania are doubled by courses for teachers and journalists, bloggers and civic activists in the same communities. With the support of the teachers, civic activists and journalists/bloggers, the students will plan and run advocacy campaigns aimed at fighting discrimination and hate speech in their community, thus practicing models of public participation and citizens’ empowering.
The project is run by the Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ), in partnership with Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) with support of Norway EEA Grants.
