Media literacy

The EMI must allow everyone to live a citizen media practice:

•  to be able to be informed, to express oneself freely, to broaden one’s horizon, to understand the world in all its complexity, to develop one’s critical mind;
• acquire skills to critically read and distance from the content offered by all media, to research, select and interpret information, evaluate and analyse the sources of the information offered;
• get rid of the paths drawn by social networks, their algorithms and their uninterrupted flows;
• understand the value of intangible content in order to combat piracy and promote the defence of copyright;
• to understand the media, networks and informational phenomena in all their dimensions: economic, societal, technical, ethical.

Since 2015, the Ministry of Culture has been proposing an ambitious media and information literacy plan, primarily aimed at young audiences.
The DRAC Hauts-de-France supports media and information literacy projects and the actors involved in these initiatives through the following mechanisms:

Community Social Information Media Support Fund (FSMISP)

The Ministry of Culture has created a sustainable support fund dedicated to local social information media.  As tools for information, expression, creation and dialogue, local media build trust with citizens and are the best bulwark against “digital populism”.

These media have three strengths:

• they are a vector of information and a factor of social cohesion by contributing to the vigour of the local democratic debate and giving voice to the inhabitants, especially in the priority districts of the city policy or the areas of rural revitalization.  
• they contribute to enhancing the image of the territories and changing it;
• they enable a wide audience to become familiar with journalistic practice, thus contributing to the objective of media literacy.

These media can be online press services (press website, newsletter, webtélé, webradio, etc.), or also electronic communication services to the public, providing on-line content of general interest that is regularly renewed and subject to journalistic processing.

The 2022 Community Social Media Support Fund campaign is now open and will close on February 28, 2022.

The application form for the call for projects is entirely paperless and accessible only from the «My online steps» platform.

We invite you to read the information concerning the eligibility conditions of this support fund under the heading " Aids and procedures"of the Ministry of Culture and take note of the following decree.

Decree no. 2016-511 of 26 April 2016 on the support fund for local social information media that governs this fund.

The Media and Information Literacy Project Call

It is a support programme of the Hauts-de-France Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate for media, information and freedom of expression education activities. The Media and Information Literacy Plan is divided into two components:

Strand 1: Supporting media and information literacy actors in the Hauts-de-France region
Component 2: Strengthen support and development of media and information literacy in libraries.

See the current calls for proposals:

The EMI'cycle network: the network of EMI actors in the Hauts-de-France region

First regional network of its kind, EMI'cycle allows the territory of Hauts-de-France to become «Pilot Region». The EMI'cycle network brings together researchers, journalists, national, popular and specialized education professionals, thus forming a collective intelligence of media and information literacy actors in the Hauts-de-France region. The network is an observer uses, inventory of actors, skills, actions and modalities of intervention in NDE at the regional level, collection of tools and pedagogical resources and experimenter of innovative pedagogical approaches.
EMI'cycle is catalyst a regional dynamic of media and information education activities carried out by its members.
EMI'cycle defends equal access of the inhabitants of Hauts-de-France to the EMI. Thus, EMI'cycle identifies unopened EMI skills and geographic areas in order to address them through intervention and/or training.

Journalists' residences

The DRAC Hauts-de-France wishes to strengthen and develop media and information literacy activities, primarily aimed at young audiences. This commitment has, among other things, resulted in a strengthening of the BOP 224 decentralized appropriations. This program aims to expand the residency approaches supported so far by the ministry in the artistic and cultural fields to the field of media and information education.

The purpose of these residences is to support projects supported by the territories in order to:

• qualify existing productions or develop new editorial projects by fostering partnerships between local and national professional media interested in their production;
• help in the structuring or professionalisation of local media approaches;
• set up media and information education activities for audiences involved in new editorial or local media projects;
• implement media and information literacy activities for young people.

These residences:

• address professional journalists (independent journalists or journalists integrated into a newsroom);
• within the framework of MIL, are positioned primarily on the off-school time or on a school/off-school time articulation;
• take place primarily in priority territories (QPV or rural areas);
• benefit from co-financing, in particular by local authorities.