Official Description from the Socrates Compendium 1999 - Comenius 2

TITLE: Fernsehnachrichten aus Europa - Ein medienpädagogisches Project für Grundschulen in Europa

DESCRIPTION: The project ''Fernsehnachrichten aus Europa' Ein medienpedagogisches Projekt für Grundschulen in Europa'' (Television News on Europe - Project on media education for compulsory schools in Europe) intends to develop methods for intercultural education by focusing on the use of media in education. The project intends to promote intercultural understanding and combat prejudices towards different cultures by using public media and television news in particular.

The overall aim is to design a concept for media education. Special areas of interest are the selection processes of news, EU -policy and the role of individual EU -countries in news. The final outcome would be teaching modules and materials. The following phases would be included: 1) analysis of the present situation, 2) definition of pedagogical concepts and components in the context of media education, 3) media analysis/media literacy skills/analysis of the news, 4) the production phase, 5) final outputs circulated among partner schools and 6) publication, dissemination and setting up of links with other actors. Outcomes would include material for teaching modules, a brochure on general aims, contents and examples of news in three languages, television news prepared by pupils, a video documenting the developments in the project and a website. Partnership includes schools and universities from DE, ES and UK.

Project duration: three years.