With more and more devices and opportunities available, it’s clear that many teachers and students are using media and film to enrich learning. The Conference will highlight excellent examples of media and film in education, discussing teacher training and exploring what works best in and out of the classroom.

Media is inextricably linked to cultural education and a key tool in programmes of intercultural learning in formal and informal education. Multicultural Europe calls for intercultural learning, and the Conference agenda features some of the most recent thinking on this topic, as well as excellent media-based resources available for young people.

Schools all over Europe are facing questions about their role in terms of combatting radicalisation. While many are keen to tackle the problem, they often lack resources and an effective approach. Media literacy can be part of the solution and will be the subject of the public discussion entitled Propaganda, Lies & Videotape: combatting radicalisation with media literacy.

Video is changing higher education, but what remains to be seen is whether it is being effectively used. Various speakers will be discuss good practices, sharing useful results, and plotting new trends during a Conference track dedicated to the use of media in universities and colleges.

Developing critical thinking about media is vitally important in our changing media landscape, where worries about propaganda, media bias, and authentication abound. Meet experts from the European Broadcasting Union, Ofcom, the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association, and other organisations to discuss increasing media literacy in formal education, non-formal education, and the wider community.

Now in its eighth year, the MEDEA Awards highlights excellence in the use of media to support learning. Come and meet the finalists from all over Europe, who will show their entries in the highly informative sessions.