Media literacy matters! Strong presence of BRODhub at the conference in Brussels

The European Digital and Media Literacy Conference in Brussels puts the many faces of digital and media literacy in the European spotlight during the Belgian EU presidency.

The Bulgarian-Romanian Digital Observatory of Digital Media (BROD) has a strong presence at Media Literacy Week – Ana Mocanu and Bianca Rus participate at MLEG, Andrea Troncea, Nicoleta Corbu and Ruslana Margova – at Media Literacy Matters.

The conference is focused on showcasing and exchanging initiatives, tools, projects and practices that can be integrated into work or policy.

Nicoleta Corbu (Threatpie / National University of Political Studies and Public Administration / BROD - Romania) presented Evidence based policy making: suggesting media literacy interventions based on research about disinformation in Bulgaria and Romania.

Adriana Trocea (The Center for Independent Journalism - Romania) presented the paper Media literacy programme: building resilience one person at a time.

The future challenges for digital and media literacy practitioners and policy makers were discussed by the member of BROD Advisory Board Nicoleta Fotiade (IAME / Mediawise Society - Romania)

There were other Bulgarians: Marin Lessenski (Open Society Institute - Bulgaria) spoke about The Media Literacy Index, Kristina Hristova (Media Literacy Coalition - Bulgaria) about the Lifelong learning for Bulgarian seniors, and Iglika Ivanova (Media Literacy Coalition - Bulgaria) about the experience with Wikipedia: Empowering news literacy through Wikipedia: harnessing the power of open knowledge and community-driven fact-checking.