Speak Up! is a cross-European project aimed at integrating young, newly arrived migrants through video, radio production and media literacy trainings, leading to media and film festivals in all partner countries.

During the course of the project, training of trainers and webinars will be organised for 100 interested teachers and trainers, discussing the merits of using media production and media literacy trainings for the integration of newly-arrived migrants. Media training workshops will also be organised for young migrants as a way to help them integrate into their new environments and so that they can tell their stories and share information for their community and the broader public. Building on this success of the Ithaka Film Festival in the Netherlands, we will run the first Ithaka International Film and Media Festival in September 2021, showcasing the work produced during the workshops throughout the project alongside screenings of other films on migration.

Additionally, two international meetings will also take place – one in Utrecht University, the Netherlands and one at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. The meetings will be used to discuss the project activities and how media training can be used to help migrants, both through facilitating their integration and through more responsible media reporting.

More on Speak Up! on https://speak-up-eu.com/

Timeline

  • May 2020: Guidelines on video production, radio production and MIL are produced and freely available
  • November 2020 – January 2021: 5 webinars with educators are conducted
  • March 2021: 1 Manifesto
  • January – June 2021: 300 young, newly arrived migrants are trained on video production, radio production and MIL
  • September 2021: 1 Instagram Competition
  • September-October 2021: 5 Films and Medias Festivals

Donors

Partners

Media and Information Literacy Migration Public dialogue