Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia The Media Education Centre Project 

Media and Information Literacy Platform, Traveling Festival, New International Media Pedagogy School and Training‐Workshop for the young journalists on the Floating Classroom  

 European Understanding, Rapid Action (RapTION) in providing Opportunity for everybody to participate 

in development of the Intercultural Pedagogy and New, Digital, Multi Media Education!  

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Education  Our project is a novel and unique initiative with much potential for the future cooperation. During the period of activities and implementation we will share our Media, Information and Peace educational experience and experience of our partners from Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia. We would like to start with six countries with great possibility to enlarge our project in the future to all Danube Region Countries.   Main elements of the project DANUBE‐E.U.R.O.P.E. have to be:  

• Media and Information Literacy Concept is the composite element of the Project and main tool for development, implementation and promotion;  

• Traveling Danube Photo, Animation and Film Festival‐Exhibition (multi media) in connection with Danube River and seven main issues: Peace, Dialogue, Heritage, Environment, Development, Human Rights, Inclusion; 

• Floating Intercultural Classroom; • Traveling platform for intercultural and interreligious dialogue! Bridge for 

International and Interactive promotion of Dialogue and Diversity; • Platform for modern, frequent and creative lifelong learning cooperation; • Platform, Workshop and Promotion for long term development of the sustainable 

ecological protection and development and building strong environmental spirit, condition for further implementation of the green technologies; 

• Movement for creative, permanent implementation of the Media, Information and Peace Literacy in the Danube Region related to promotion of the culture, tradition and historical heritage; 

• Traveling Promotion of Civil Society, Citizenship and European Values.  

OBJECTIVES:  Project is designed to provide to Students and their Teachers skill and knowledge like tool for development of the New Media Pedagogy. Lack of Education make problem in social and educational inclusion what provoke lack of job opportunity and participation of the community life development.

        

Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia The Media Education Centre Project 

Our Project have to encourage participants to establish cooperation between Schools, Institutions and Organization in different countries and to include and use Media, Information and Peace Literacy what is the best tool to start to develop new model of Education for the people from Danube Region and to build open platform for exchange of the knowledge and experience for faster building Knowledge Society.

Danube Peace Boat is Media and Information Literacy Initiative for building strong Interactive and Intercultural Educational model and to motivate decision makers in Danube Region and wider to help and support.

Danube Peace Boat is innovative because will open space for young and professional journalists to help us creating Strong Network for Educational and Promotional Media Production with influence and relationship between people-youngsters in Danube Region and wider, on decision makers in different countries to encourage using of media for easy to use and open for implementation, Intercultural, Interactive and Inclusive educational model. EXPECTED results: By the end of implementation, each Danube Peace Boat participant has developed and produced unique, film, animation, media-short-form news, TV report, radio report, blogs, internet and new media content on a wide range of social, educational, cultural and environmental topics. All this products will be disseminated them through the Danube Peace Boat Network Platform-website and trough local media. Emphasizing process over media product, Danube Peace Boat Strong Network uses media, film, animation and journalism as a development tool to empower education with Media, Information and Peace Literacy and to make Students and Teachers like PARTNERS (in the New Media Pedagogy Process) as skilled, professional media makers-reporters able to bring much-needed local and global media attention to the educational, environmental, cultural, traditional and social issues, experiences and challenges that define their future professional lives. Our participants will start a Danube Peace Boat Strong Network- Media Platform for Permanent Future Cooperation (open for new members) where the graduates, under the supervision of their Educators-Media Mentors, can continue to produce and file educational media and start changing their life using media like tool for wake up motivation for education and shaping better their future.

The age of participants: 

Target Traveling participants have to be students of the High school 14‐19 (70%) and their teachers‐educators (30%) 

Target non‐traveling Participants in every city have to be in three groups: 5‐13; 14‐24 and adult educators, teachers, professors, journalists, media producers… 

 Number of Participants: Official project have to be for 62 participants (8 participants from 6 countries and 14 professional young journalists‐participants from 14 Danube Countries)! Proposal include in the project one young journalist (TV, Radio or Newspaper) from each Danube Region country: member, accession and neighborhood… so, will be great to have Journalist’s team from 14 Countries on the Boat.   All interested Organization could also participate on the project implementation on their own budget‐with participation fee. List of potential partners is below!