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The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU launched its activities on CLIP european project on visual Media Literacy and tackling visual disinformation

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CLIP-logoThe “CLIP: Critical visual media Literacy and emPowerment” is a newly approved European co-funded project that addresses the digital transformation through the development of digital and green readiness, resilience and capacity, of the Higher Education (HE) sector.

Thus, CLIP project aims to strengthen the digital capabilities of the HE sector by boosting their resilience to information overload, manipulation and polarization, mitigating the risks of bias in visual representations by providing young people (within and outside Universities) with the capacity to critically understand media and images, and the way those are used in education, news and online narratives. Specifically:

CLIP has already kicked off its activities on collecting good practices on Visual Media Literacy and tracking visual misinformation in Europe.

The identified good practices and the consultation of experts and practitioners via interviews following a semi-structured grid, will lead to the conduction of a Report on Visual Media Literacy in European HE and the recommendations on the structure, content and tools to be used in the training course that will follow. More precisely, the CLIP Micro Learning course on critical Visual Media Literacy and Fluency will consist of 40 hours training, targeting HEIs students of Journalism and Communication, also available to anyone interested in taking part. It will provide the participants with the necessary understanding about the importance of images in present societies and with particular skills to detect image bias as well as stereotypes in visual artifacts.

At least a hundred and fifty (150) trainees from three (3) CLIP countries, including Greece, will be involved in the process and will be equipped with an advanced understanding of how cultural biases and stereotypes are embedded in the apparent and alleged neutrality of images. A related catalogue of operational tools, summarizing the findings from the training modules, will be shared and further promoted.

The outer goal is to incorporate the learning strategies for visual media literacy into the training process of the HE sector in other learning environments (ranging from secondary schools to informal and non-formal digital skills learning), in order to encourage critical thinking and contribute to inclusive and non-biased societies.

The DAISSy Research Group of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) is the Greek project partner of CLIP and will be actively involved in all its activities and deliverables. Furthermore, DAISSy, with its long experience, will be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the e-learning platform and will coordinate the drafting of the course content, to which all partners will contribute. In addition, it will be one of the partners responsible for the piloting of the course in its Institution and the respective assessment and evaluation process.

Lastly, DAISSy will contribute thoroughly in the development of a set of Guidelines, Recommendations and tools to support academic staff in the implementation of learning strategies for visual media literacy. This will be achieved by a Toolkit in English, Italian and Greek that will provide operational guidelines on how to integrate visual media literacy in the learning offer of HEIs which will get available to anyone interested.

The CLIP is an eighteen-month  project co-funded by the ERASMUS+/KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in Higher Education Program of the European Union and it is coordinated by the UNIMED – UNIONE DELLE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITERRANEO (Italy) with LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI LINGUE E COMUNICAZIONE (Italy), ALL DIGITAL (Belgium) and HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY (Greece) as partners. The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU plans to exploit its wide networking and embrace respective stakeholders aiming at the multiple diffusion and sustainability of the project results and impact.

For more information on the CLIP project, and other activities of DAISSy:

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The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU participated at the ‘CLIP: Critical visual media Literacy and emPowerment’ transnational kick-off meeting

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CLIP-logoThe transnational partners’ kick-off meeting of the ‘CLIP: Critical visual media Literacy and emPowerment’ european project took place on the 3rd and 4th of November 2022, in Rome (Italy) launching its implementation.

The CLIP project aims to strengthen the digital capabilities of the HE sector by boosting their resilience to information overload, manipulation and polarization, mitigating the risks of bias in visual representations by providing young people (within and outside Universities) with the capacity to critically understand media and images and the way those are used in education, news and online narratives.

The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU, the Greek project partner, actively participated at the kickoff meeting, represented by its Director, prof. Achilles Kameas who delivered a detailed presentation about the CLIP Micro Learning course on critical Visual Media Literacy and Fluency, for which DAISSy serves as the Leader partner. Namely, prof. Kameas referred to the design, development and maintenance of the e-learning platform and the drafting of the course content, to which all partners will contribute. DAISSy, will also be one of the partners responsible for the piloting of the course in its Institution and the respective assessment and evaluation process.

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The meeting was hosted by the Coordinator UNIMED – UNIONE DELLE UNIVERSITA DEL MEDITERRANEO (Italy), took place at the premises of the second Italian project partner, LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI LINGUE E COMUNICAZIONE-IULM, and both the ALL DIGITAL (Belgium) and the HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY (Greece), project partners, were also represented.

The partnership had the chance to meet in person and to discuss thoroughly about the project objectives, i.e.:

  • Raise awareness of the role played by higher education in Europe to enable the fair and resilient digital transformation, tracking disinformation and bias in visual communication through education and training.
  •  Increase the digital fluency and critical consciousness about visual media of European students and faculties, both within communication study communities and transversely across subjects, nourishing misinformation-resilient behaviors and providing them with the practical skills to detect image bias as well as stereotypes in visual artefacts.
  • Enable academic staff, senior management and communication staff at the universities to develop sustainable strategies for integrating visual media literacy at all levels of course offering.

The partners exchanged vividly about the content of the project outcomes and the distribution of their tasks, namely about the:

  • The in-depth analysis of visual media literacy as part of the Report on Visual Media Literacy in Europe about the non-biased visual communication contributing to inclusiveness and social responsibility.
  • The Micro-learning course in critical visual media literacy and fluency for detecting image bias as well as stereotypes in visual artefacts.
  • The Scalability and transferability toolkit consisting of practical ideas and recommendations for the development of relevant visual media literacy initiatives in Europe.

The CLIP is an eighteen-month project co-funded by the ERASMUS+/KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in Higher Education Program of the European Union. The DAISSy Research Group of the HOU will ensure the effective implementation of the project activities in Greece, putting emphasis on networking and the involvement of respective stakeholders, aiming at the multiple exploitation of the project results and its impact.

For more information on the CLIP project, and other activities of DAISSy: