D-JIL aims to offer young citizens, from nine countries in the MENA region, the opportunity, resources, training and mentoring to create and produce digital content for new generations of youth. The project aims to help them to become more active citizens, involved in their communities and public life.
ERIM leads the implementation of the Media and Information Literacy workshops to help the project teams incorporate Media Literacy into their activities and receive feedback from their youth audience.
Timeline
- 2018 – 2019 : Call for proposals to select the 30 best projects focusing on digital content intended to meet the expectations of young people and to help them to become involved in public and local life
- 2018 – 2019 : Hackathons to bring the teams together to share ideas, receive targeted training and mentoring aimed at helping them refine and develop their project ideas
- 2019 – 2021: Subgrants to 18 projects to transform their ideas into actual projects
- 2019 – 2021: Capacity building and personalized mentoring to award winners
- 2019 – 2021: Media and Information Literacy workshops in 7 countries
Donors
- European Union