Villa Crossmedia

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Villa Crossmedia is a media project designed to promote social inclusion, cultural exchanges and empowerment among youths. Increased media awareness and the creation of media for and by young people (radio, TV, internet and especially social media) allows them to acquire the relevant skills that will help them on their pathways to further training and employment. The project focuses on 3 areas targeted at 12-25 year olds: - media wisdom - ensuring that young people are aware of potential dangers and other issues concering new media, in particular the internet and social networks, through training and peer-to-peer activity. - media education and production – establishing new media centres or improving existing ones to create places where young people can learn about media in an informal and inclusive way. This will include site visits, practitioner exchanges and the encouragement of cross-border youth media production. - cultural identity - promoting a heightened sense of identity among young people in a multi-cultural world and providing opportunities for exchanges between young people in the 2 Seas area. A key output of the project will be a highly accessible, open-source virtual media platform to enhance peer production, collaboration and free sharing of media by the youngsters in the 2 Seas cross-border area.

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