The informal network of organisations and practitioners linked to the annual MEDEA Awards is growing and will be strengthened in 2011 by the 4th MEDEA Awards, publication of a multilingual newsletter, launch of an online community of practice and organisation of workshops and an international conference. The motivation behind MEDEAnet is first of all to extend the reach of this network by providing opportunities for local events linked to the MEDEA Awards and to involve not only early adopters, but also mainstream practitioners in networking opportunities. Secondly, plans to establish the MEDEA Foundation as a legally constituted membership organisation in 2012 are underway. MEDEAnet will provide a bridge to this foundation, identifying potential members and supporting the recruitment of European practitioners and stakeholders to take up the services and opportunities for partnership offered by the foundation. MEDEAnet involves partners who either have a national or a large-scale regional brief and who are mandated to support innovation in teaching and learning as part of their organisational responsibility. Through them this network will reach teachers and trainers who are less skilled and motivated to use media-based learning approaches. In this way, this 3-year networking project will directly address the priority of promoting digital competence in terms of media familiarity and skills as a key transversal competence for life and employability amongst European-wide stakeholders' communities. MEDEAnet partners will organise workshops in 7 countries sharing best practice with the input of MEDEA Award winners and finalists; provide a 12-part series of public webinars on related topics; publish an annual report on media literacy, skills in educational media production and the use of media-based teaching resources; promote knowledge building and sharing amongst practitioners and roll-out a large-scale dissemination and exploitation strategy on media and learning.