Internships at Mediawijs
Passionate about media literacy? Looking for an internship that allows you to work on interesting projects with great societal value? Read more.
About us
Mediawijs is the Flemish Knowledge Base for Digital and Media Literacy of the Flemish government and imec vzw. Mediawijs helps residents of Flanders and Brussels to use and understand digital technology and media actively, creatively, critically and consciously, so that everyone can participate in society. Read more about our vision, approach and structure here.
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Meet the team behind Mediawijs
Curious about who’s who at Mediawijs? Who is an expert in what topic, and who works on what projects?
What does Mediawijs do
Mediawijs primarily creates its own campaigns and projects like The Scale of M, News in the Classroom and MediaNest, in order to help young and old become media literate. We also support partner projects, like Safer Internet Day and European Media Literacy Week.
Through courses (e.g., our Media Coach training), knowledge sharing (e.g., the Mediawijs convention and the informative cases on our website) and practical development, Mediawijs tries to help shape the digital and media literacy sector.
Mediawijs convenes at least 4 expert groups per year to create a state-of-play about a topic within the sector and the research field. This helps us identify needs and creates opportunities to update cases and develop new initiatives. Additionally, experts can inform each other on current and recent projects in the sector and in research. If you want to suggest a topic for an expert group, please feel free to contact us.
Mediawijs continuously keeps up to date with the most recent developments in the media (literate) behaviour of citizens. Research like the MediaNest Data and Apestaartjaren, for example, map out the media possession and use of children and young people. We also investigate trends in media literacy and check on the state of the media literacy sector.
Mediawijs is closely involved with vision and policy development around digital and media literacy in Flanders, Brussels, Belgium and Europe. Mediawijs develops policy tools and whitepapers, assists local governments in the creation of a media literacy policy, and is a prominent partner to several social organisations and associations.
Mediawijs projects
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Media Coach
The Media Coach course helps your organisation level up in the digital world. Your wide knowledge base qualifies you as a coach, first point of contact and inspiration for everything to do with media literacy. A Media Coach can be of great use at school, at the library or in special youth care, but also in any organisation that could use a digital step-up. Read more.
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MediaNest
Screen time, social media, privacy on the internet, … The digital world brings up lots of questions for parents. They can find the answers on MediaNest: the website about media education for children from 0 to 18 years old. Read more.
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The Scale of M
Mediawijs and Ketnet challenge children in primary education and their teachers to explore media literacy in class. Every year, they can use The Scale of M, a pack of free educational materials suitable for the last two years of primary school (10-12 years old). Read more.
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News in the Classroom
News in the Classroom is an educational project for pupils in the last two years of primary school (from 10 years old), aimed at news and information literacy. It stimulates children and youngsters to handle news and current affairs critically and consciously, but also actively and creatively. Read more.
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Digitaleinclusie.be
The aim of digital inclusion is to ensure that everyone can fully participate in our (digital) society. We bring together stakeholders, inform people and develop practical tools that can be used by anyone who wants to work on digital inclusion.
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Mediawijs as a partner in Flemish and European projects
There is a lot to do about media literacy, both domestically and internationally. Mediawijs is a partner in many local, national and international projects. Read more.
Campaigns and consultations
Mediawijs is also a partner in many local, national and international campaigns and coordinates consultations within and between sectors.
Contact Mediawijs
Do you have a suggestion for our team? A question about media literacy? An interest in collaborating? Please contact us and we’ll make sure to get back to you swiftly. Email info@mediawijs.be or contact a specific team member.
Questions about …
Media Coach? mediacoach@mediawijs.be
MediaNest? medianest@mediawijs.be
News in the Classroom? nieuwsindeklas@mediawijs.be
The Scale of M? dsvm@mediawijs.be
Digital inclusion? digitaleinclusie@mediawijs.be
Press? pers@mediawijs.be
Our adress
Becentral / Mediawijs
Kantersteen 10
1000 Brussel