For more than seven years, media, information and freedom of expression education (EMILE) has been one of the priorities of the Hauts-de-France public policies for which many actors and actresses are committed on a daily basis. On March 29, 2023, the Assises du journalisme de Tours awarded 3 projects from Hauts-de-France, revealing this tremendous commitment in our region.
“Media and Information Literacy” (MIL) is an indispensable element to prepare for the exercise of citizenship in a democracy, allowing everyone to live a citizen media practice. If the NDE is inscribed in the common base of knowledge, competence and culture of national education, it concerns well each of us to be, throughout life: to express oneself freely, to develop his critical mind, critically and distanced from the content proposed by all the media, analysing the sources of the information proposed, etc. These skills are necessary for community life.
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Awards International Conference on Journalism in Tours Annually reward initiatives that enable media awareness and understanding through a critical and creative approach. By 2023, 60 entries had been accepted for the six awards. Among the nominees, several projects on the initiative of actors and actresses from Hauts-de-France: ESJ-Lille, the ABEJ de Lille, the association CARMEN d'Amiens and Collège Simone de Beauvoir de Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
On Wednesday 29 March, the 6 winners were nominated, during the award ceremony of the EMI Awards of the 2023 Assizes presided by Sébastien Olland, journalist at Brut.
Of the six lucky winners, 3 award-winning projects are being developed in Hauts-de-France. These awards reflect the regional momentum and dynamism for Media and Information Education and Freedom of Expression, a policy supported by the Hauts-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs in a proactive and ambitious manner, up to €800,000 per year, in collaboration with its partners and in particular the network MI'Cycle :
L'Age des passions, Simone de Beauvoir College (59)
School category, CLEMI sponsored award – Canopé. é Network
The Age of Passions is the online newspaper of the Simone de Beauvoir college in Villeneuve d'Ascq, managed and fed by the students of the Atelier Média. Their goal: “to express themselves, to cover the news of the institution and beyond, to learn a lot about journalism and the media, and... to open up to the world!”
The media caravan, Carmen Association (60)
2023 EMI Award, Association category, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture
The media caravan is a mobile and unusual studio that has been touring the roads of Hauts-de-France since 2020, with journalists Sophie Bourlet, Clémence Leleu and Timothée Vinchon on board, artists and illustrators of the press or the photojournalist Simon Lambert.
The media caravan is a project led by the association CARMEN based in Amiens, coordinator of EMI'Cycle - the network of actors in media, information and freedom of expression education in Hauts-de-France, which now numbers sixty-oneten member structures. On the strength of all these cooperations, CARMEN is developing this project with the citizens of rural and working-class areas, especially adults, a public often forgotten when it comes to media education. The organization of caravans emphasizes the spontaneous meeting of audiences who would be outside the radar of the usual cultural and artistic action, on the audiences of educational, socio-educational and socio-cultural institutions, and on collective writing times of the caravan’s travel diary.
The last edition of the Media Caravan was supported by the DRAC Hauts-de-France (cultural summer), the DDETS de l'Oise, the Hauts-de-France Region and the Commune de Communes Pays du Coquelicot.
Solidarity, ABEJ Solidarity (59)
2023 EMI Award, Out of School category, sponsored by France Médias Monde
This project brought together the issue of the media from homeless people, social workers, volunteers, people welcomed at ABEJ and students of ESJ Lille, and a photographer.
An exhibition project presenting the photos taken by professionals but also the homeless and the sheltered is in preparation for theInstitute for Photography lille.