Countries

 

FINLAND YLE – Mundo

YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, are running the Mundo project, which is a media education and work training project for immigrants and ethnic minorities that live in Finland. The aim is to promote multicultural understanding among employers.

www.yle.fi/mundo

 

GERMANY BGZ - Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (Berlin International Cooperation Agency)

Prointegration project

BGZ carries out international cooperation projects to enhance vocational integration of immigrants nationwide. The range is from an e-learning German-language course, through profiling methods, to tailor-made qualifications and coaching.

www.prointegration.info

 

GREECE DIMITRA - Institute for Training and Development

Community Net project

The project is addressed to unemployed repatriate journalists, coming from the ex -Soviet Union, Europe, Australia, Africa etc. The aim is to improve their training opportunities and promotion in the media.

www.dimitra.gr

 

NETHERLANDS Dolle Zine

De Balie is a political and cultural centre in Amsterdam. They are running a project called Dolle Zine, which is a project about muslim women.

www.debalie.nl

Kiezen Voor Je Leven - Learn for your life

Mira Media is the Dutch organisation for media and minorities. They are running the Learn for your life project in schools and colleges about young people making decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.

www.miramedia.nl

 

SLOVAKIA ACEC, Association for Culture, Education and Communication

www.acec.sk

Living Together project

ACEC is part advertising agency, part NGO (non-governmental organisation). This project aims to improve the position of Romany people in Slovakian society. DigiTales will capture snippets of present day life in the Roma settlements of Eastern Slovakia.

 

U.K. Hi8us Projects Ltd

Hi8us gives young people across the UK the opportunity to gain experience of innovative media production, and a chance to tell their stories. Hi8us projects use the experience of creating media as a catalyst for changing lives.

www.hi8us.co.uk

 

DigiTales is funded by the European Social Fund and it is led by Hi8us Projects Limited, within the Inclusion Through Media (ITM) partnership.

ITM works by enabling excluded people to find their voice through participatory media and aims to create new opportunities in the media and related creative industries. All work produced under the ITM banner will be distributed to the widest possible audience such as local television, DVD and broadband channels. ITM will also work to influence policy makers.