EVENTS: kid.on conference

SAVE THE DATE – KID ON 2014 am 26. September 2014

KID ON, der Kongress für Kinder- und Jugendkommunikation geht in die achte Runde.
Im Hotel „Berlin Berlin“ treffen sich Kommunikationsprofis, Marketing-Entscheider, Produkt- und CSR-Manager, um sich einen Tag lang zu den neusten Trends und Erkenntnissen rund um junge Zielgruppen auszutauschen.

In praxisbezogenen Vorträgen und Workshops erhalten Sie breit gefächerte Impulse sowie direkt anwendbare Empfehlungen für die tägliche Arbeit in der Kinder- und Jugendkommunikation.

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EVENTS: European Youth Summit

CfA: European Youth Summit: 100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region, Sarajevo, 4-8 June 2014

Europe is, just as 100 years ago, at a crossroad. This June, Sarajevo, just as one century ago, will be the center of the World. Only this time, the reason will be much more pleasant. European Youth Summit, with a symbolic title "100 for the Next 100 in the Danube Region" will be held in Sarajevo from 04-08 June 2014. This event will bring 100 young leaders from the countries of the Danube region and South-East Europe.

Participants of the Summit will have a unique opportunity to discuss the challenges Europe and the region are facing nowadays, not just among themselves, but also with the key decision makers with different backgrounds - politics, civil society and extinguished academic members of the community. Another aspect of the Summit are the workshops, which will provide participants with an opportunity to acquire more practical knowledge and skills from wide range of areas. Organizers of the event are regional members of the Forum Alpbach Network from Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partners of the project are European Forum Alpbach, Danube Competence Center and University of Sarajevo.

We are pleased to invite all the interested young people, students, graduates, entrepreneurs, young professionals and civil society representatives to send their applications until 20 April 2014.

The application form and all other information regarding the project and organizers are available at www.alpbach.org/en/sarajevo2014

EVENTS: First European Media Literacy Forum

The First European Media Literacy Forum will be held on May 27 and 28, 2014 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This conference is funded by the European Commission and UNESCO into the Media LiteracyAction, and co-organized by the EMEDUS  Project and the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación (UAB), within the frame of the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Mediaand Information Literacy (GAPMIL). The Forum will bring together governments, audio-visual authorities, institutions, experts, teachers, media professionals, industry, researchers, NGOs, and foundations with the aim of promoting media and information literacy in Europe, discussing MIL policies at a European level and fostering cooperation and initiatives at national and European levels.

The main objective of the forum is to contribute to the establishment of a reinforced European media literacy policy oriented towards theinclusion of Media Education in European school curricula. In addition, it also aims at promoting the development of media literacyinitiatives in the field of non- formal and informal education as well as paying special attention to disadvantaged groups.  

This conference will foster debate and cooperation among institutions, experts, industry professionals, schools and the media as well as among political and regulatory authorities with the purpose of promoting media literacy. 

The event will also encourage the creation of diverse collaborative platforms such as the European Chapter of the Global Alliance Partners in Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL), the European Media and Film Literacy Observatory, and other initiatives.

Link to the programme.

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NEWS / ARTICLES: CMC 2013: 10 trends in children's entertainment for the next 10 years

The last decade may have seen rapid changes in children's entertainment, but what about the next 10 years?

During the opening panel session at the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield – a separate report on that can be found here – PlayCollective senior vice president David Kleeman outlined the 10 trends he thinks will be most important.

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more from the CMC in Sheffield:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2013/jul/04/cmc-2013-factual-content-children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/04/phineas-and-ferb-disney-cmc-2013

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EVENTS: Consuming Kids: Reclaiming Childhood from Corporate Marketers

CCFC’s 8th international summit will be held March 21-23, 2013 in Boston.  This year’s summit will focus on CCFC’s four core strategies for reducing the harmful effects of commercialism: reducing screen time, corporate campaigning, protecting commercial-free spaces for children, and advocating for policies that limit marketers’ access to children.

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NEWS: Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2012 concludes

11 October 2012 - Industry leaders from across the Middle East discussed secrets of innovation and challenges to entrepreneurship on the final day of the Abu Dhabi Media Summit 2012.

The Jordanian founder and CEO of Aramex, Fadi Ghandour, talked about the need to support entrepreneurs in the UAE and the key factors it takes to stimulate young people to be motivated enough to start up their own businesses.

“If we are talking about national wellbeing, we are talking about jobs and the power of entrepreneurship to create new wealth,” he said.

He pointed out that there is real motivation in the Arab world, with 26 per cent of Arab youth wanting to start their own businesses, compared to just 4 per cent in the US. However, he said, the education system is failing would-be entrepreneurs and must be improved.

Giving highlights from a special report on the Millennial Generation and Youth in the Middle East, Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, of Viacom International Media Networks, summarised the key characteristics and insights from 10 major US and global research studies conducted between 2009 and 2011.


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EVENTS: Safer Internet Forum 2012, Brussels, 18 - 19 October 2012

The Safer Internet Forum has been organised by the Safer Internet Programme as an annual conference on safer internet issues since 2004. It brings together representatives of industry, law enforcement authorities, child welfare organisations and policy makers. Past editions of the Safer Internet Forum have welcomed guests not only from Europe, but also from countries such as Australia, Brazil and the Russian Federation.

The 2012 edition of the Safer Internet Forum will take place 18 - 19 October in Brussels under the theme 'Creating together a Better Internet for Children and Young People'.

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CONFERENCES / EVENTS: A Children & Young People Now one-day conference

A Children & Young People Now one-day conference
26 September 2012, London

Measuring the impact of projects has become essential for all those who commission and provide services for children, young people and families. Being able to demonstrate positive, quantifiable outcomes gives confidence to investors and funders, and informs good decision making.

Critically, it is central to enhancing the lives of the vulnerable children, young people and families for whom you are responsible, and ensures that what you are doing delivers the best possible value.

Achieving Positive Outcomes for Children, Young People and Families provides a day of top-level information and practical insights from many of the sector’s leading practitioners. Delegates will be able to explore the issues around evidence-based decision making, partnership working across multiple agencies, measurement of early intervention benefits and the government’s current payment-by-results projects.

It promises to be an essential day for all those who commission and provide services for children, young people and families working within local authorities, the voluntary sector and the private sector.

For further information, visit www.cypnow.co.uk/outcomes2012; to see the full programme, click here; to book your place, click here.

EVENTS / NEWS: Ukrainian junior journalists promote 'nice television'

Kyiv, February 3 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Television needs to be improved, and this concerns not only Ukrainian television, organizers of a press conference entitled "Children's Media in Ukraine for Friendship or Aggression? Freedom of Speech and Responsibility" hosted by Interfax-Ukraine on Friday have said.

"I'm fighting all the time to start a children's channel with children's programs. Everyone should note that there are not only small children that watch cartoons, which are by the way very primitive - there are also such people as you [junior journalists] that want to watch their news, their TV programs, their films. There are many programs produced in Ukraine, but they are not shown on TV," said director, Birds children's media-studio leader and Open Policy Foundation member Olena Zelenska.

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EVENTS: Interfax-Ukraine to host press conference 'Children's Media in Ukraine for Friendship or Aggression? Freedom of Speech and Responsibility

On Friday, February 3, at 13.30, the press centre of the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency will host a press conference entitled "Children's Media in Ukraine for Friendship or Aggression? Freedom of Speech and Responsibility" on the results of the Open Policy Foundation projects implemented with the assistance of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine.

Participating will be Counsellor of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine Ivanna Wagner, author of the children animation video "Freedom of speech!" Vasylyna Haran, people'sdeputy of Ukraine Olha Herasumiuk, journalist and TVi Channel Director General Mykola Kniazhytsky, director, children media-studio "Birds" Leader, Open Policy Foundation Olena Zelenska, G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology, Doctor Lesia Vovchyk-Blakytna, and Head on Social Programs, NGO Open Policy Foundation, Doctor Iryna Zhdanova (8/5-А Reitarska Street).

Accreditation by phone: (044) 2532139.

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EVENTS: Young journalists from Dagestan are invited to take part in the festival of youth media “Volga meeting” (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)

Makhachkala, December 24, 2011. From January 5 to January 9 the city of Cheboksary will host the preliminary stage of the festival of youth media "Volga meeting", the deputy editor of children's newspaper "Eaglet, Dagestan" Maazat Charinova said. According to her, the main goal of the festival is the promotion of youth media and to involve children and young people into social activism. It is expected that "Volga meeting -23" will gather more than 200 kids who have chosen journalism and film making as their future profession and way of expression.

"The Festival "Volga Meetings" is a show-contest of groups of children and youth editions, TV channels, films and media of the Russian Federation, CIS and Baltic countries, held since 1989. This unique event supports and educates for beginners and young journalists citizenship, leadership and creative activity, significantly affecting the growth of youth media and development of media education"- M. Charinova pointed out.

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NEWS: Youth presents recommendations to world leaders at UN forum

By Kabeer Yousuf - DOHA — At the Fourth Forum of the Alliance of Civilisations in Doha, Qatar, a diverse group of 400 young leaders met yesterday to debate key aspects of cross-cultural and inter-religious understanding during the Youth Preparatory Event, which took place at the newly inaugurated Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC).

Assigned by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, Shaikh Abdullah bin Mohammed al Salmy, Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, is heading the country at the Forum. The main outcome of the discussions during the youth event was the drafting of recommendations to world leaders on specific policies that affect the lives of young people, and on ways to enhance and build on the achievement of young people in bridging cultural divides.

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NEWS / EVENTS: Youth Summit delves deep into digital media trends

Muscat: Day Three of Muscat Youth Summit (MYS) gave the 200-plus participants an insight into the fast changing landscape of mainstream media as well as digital and social media. 

“Over the past few years social media has had a significant impact on people’s daily lives. The global conversation we now have because of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube,now the second largest search engine in the world after Google, would have been unimaginable 10 years ago. 

In short, social and digital media communication tools are profoundly changing our lives and how we interact with one another and the world around us,” said Raed Dawood of Nawras and a strategic partner of this year’s Muscat Youth Summit.

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EVENTS: Event explores media's role on young minds (UAE)

DUBAI // The negative effects of the media on young minds will be discussed at the first GCC Youth Media Forum this week.

Organisers say the three-day conference is the result of a youth welfare strategy set by the leaders of GCC countries. Youth advocates have joined forces with print and broadcast professionals at the forum, which began yesterday at the Monarch Hotel in Dubai.

"This forum aims primarily to examine the negative effects of media on young people and suggest ways to address them in light of the changes in the Arab world and worldwide," said Ibrahim Abdul Malik, the secretary general of the Public Authority for Youth and Sports, in his opening address. "That is why the organising committee was keen to choose 'values' as the underlying theme for all seminars held during the forum."

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EVENTS: Belgrade hosting 6th International Youth Media Summit

From August 1 to 12, Belgrade is hosting the Sixth International Youth Media Summit. 83 delegates from 20 countries have arrived to present their activities in the field of media communication and to exchange mutual experience. More from Olivera Milovanovic.

The International Youth Media Summit was founded in Los Angeles in 2006, as a reaction to the attack on World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001, the director of the Media Education Centre, Miomir Rajčević, told a press conference. Summit participants decided to commence joint work on an optimal exploration of media with a view to popularizing the opinion of young people on world major problems. 86 delegates from 26 countries took part in the summit in LA. On that occasion, they concluded there were seven major issues present in almost all the countries worldwide.

Those are: Discrimination/Racism, Poverty, Violence, Health, Environment, Women’s Rights and Youth Empowerment. All these issues will be discussed in Belgrade as well, with special emphasis on strengthening the role of delegates from Western Balkan countries. The summit also aims to attain a sufficient level of media literacy among the young in order that they become interactive partners and not only passive consumers of media products. Rajčević says that the Media Education Centre is the main office of the summit and its task is not only to coordinate all the activities of the summit, but also to use experience acquired from previous gatherings for the reconciliation process in former Yugoslav states.

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EVENTS / OPPORTUNITIES: Apply for the 2011 European Youth Media Convention - "Whistleblowing - A New Competition for Journalists?"

Journalists are facing competition: Platforms like wikileaks reveal scandals, allow unprecedented insights into political strategies, and begin to impinge on the role of the journalist. Apparently, the public receives an additional level of control and knowledge.But is unconditional transparency of political systems, that so-called whistleblowers usually strive for, always beneficial for democracy? And how should journalists respond if they want to prevent a takeover of their distinctive role?

During this year's European Youth Media Convention, which will take place between the 3rd and the 6th of August in Berlin (Germany), we will try to find answers to these questions and outline the future for young media makers. Participants will have the opportunity to meet up with 39 other young media makers from all over Europe and outline the situations of their own country.

You can attend lectures and discuss with experts. In addition, you will get the chance to produce journalistic print-, video-, audio- or photography content according to your interest at the event.

If you want to be a part of the convention, already have experience in journalism, and if you are between 18 and 25 years old then apply online by sending us a short motivation letter to participateEYMC2011@jugenpresse.de .

There is no participation fee. Free board and lodging is provided. Travel costs are not reimbursed

The application deadline is the 30th of July. For further questions about your application or the event, do not hesitate to contact Sebastian Schütz ( s.schuetz@jugendpresse.de ).

The European Youth Media Convention is organized and funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Youth Press Germany and the European Youth Press.

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EVENTS: Children take center stage at the 1st Visayas Youth Media Festival (PHILIPPINES)

TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, May 21 (PIA) – Children literally took the center stage as the Kabataan sa Visayas Media Festival officially opened on May 20, 2011at Robinsons Place Tacloban.

The exhibit of the entry photos is a storybook on the “issues and concerns of children” from all over the Visayas as seen by children’s eyes and as captured on still photos by children themselves.

The exhibit which is located at the second floor of the Mall just outside the cinema areas, also shows the “Dreams of Children,” a silent but glaring call for the adults, the parents, the society as a whole to open the door to the children’s dreams.

The young volunteers participation and the ingenuity of festival executive director Mag Cruz Hatol made the opening ceremonies exceptionally one of its kind with the guest of honor, Mr. Boy Abunda joining the children in media and the professional local media practitioners in taking a photo of the other guests and co-organizers, Mr. Richard Kulzim, a German diplomat and executive director of the Goethe Institut, Mr. Rodel Bontuyan who is the Visayas Area Manager of Plan Philippines, Director Olive Pecson Tiu of the Philippine Information Agency Region 8, Director Julius Navales of PDEA -8, and Professor Joey Llansa of the Leyte Normal University.

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EVENTS / FESTIVALS: Lineup Confirmed for Children's Media Conference

LONDON: The Children's Media Conference, which is set to take place from July 6 to 8 in Sheffield, has lined up Lord Puttnam as a keynote speaker, along with Moshi Monsters creator Michael Acton Smith presenting a master class and OgilvyOne exec Rory Sutherland closing the event.

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EVENTS: EU Kids Online Conference 2011 – registration now open

Registration for the 2011 EU Kids Online Conference, to be held in London 22-23 September 2011, is now open. With a conference theme of Children, risk and safety online: Research and policy challenges in a comparative perspective, this will be the final conference of the EU Kids Online II project.

For further information and to register online, please visit the EU Kids Online website.

CONFERENCES / EVENTS: YoungPress.eu Conference 2011

From 27th until 29th October 2011, the YoungPress.eu conference takes place in Antwerp (Belgium), featuring interesting workshops and lively debates on essential media issues. Young European reporters are being offered a superb opportunity to express their views on the media and journalism and to build up contacts with their peers. More info