MEET - Media Education for Equity and Tolerance

Rising discrimination, racism and intolerance in Europe — fuelled by economic crisis and amplified online — disproportionately targets low socio-economic-status youth and vulnerable groups such as migrants and refugees. MEET, funded by Erasmus+ (2016–2018) and led by Università degli Studi di Firenze, used media education as a strategy to counter this.

Build a European community of intercultural media-education practitioners (cultural mediators, researchers, teachers, students) and co-design media-education practices grounded in equity, tolerance, social justice and solidarity, mainly for disadvantaged youth aged 13–19 including migrants and refugees.

Teachers and students in 5 countries took part in an action-research process to co-design inter-cultural media-education practices. The project produced a piloted methodology and toolkit (with implementation guidelines), an educational documentary, policy recommendations and scientific papers, and involved associated partners in Italy (City of Prato), Austria (Vienna Ombud for children and youth), Belgium (Action Ciné Medias Jeunes), Germany (klicksafe) and Slovenia (National Education Institute).

An evaluation report was produced as part of the Erasmus+ project deliverables (available via the EU Erasmus+ portal), but its methodology and findings are not detailed in this practice record, so this is treated conservatively as a descriptive account.