In a world where the role of media has been so great that a term 'mediacracy' (the rule of media) has been frequently used to describe it, the need for media literacy and media activism of young people and youth NGOs is apparent. That is the main topic of this project.AIMS1: Increasing the capacity of youth organisations/workers in the field of media literacy and media activism and fostering their active participation in society, as well as fostering intraregional and transregional cooperation between 11 youth NGOs from 5 Partner and 5 Programme countries from Western Balkans (WB), Western Europe (WE) and North Europe (NE) regions;2: Strengthening media promotion of youth policy and democratic values in partner countries on transregional and European level.MAIN OBJECTIVES1. Strengthening human and technical (ICT) resources of 11 youth NGOs in the field of media literacy and media activism;2. Creating multilingual OER on media literacy and media activism;3. Creating a transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and democracy; 4. Establishing strong intraregional and transregional cooperation among partner NGOs.ACTIVITIES1. Training course (TC) in media literacy and media activism The goal of the TC is to provide media literacy/activism skills for 33 youth workers from 11 partner NGOs. Participants will develop: technical competences (the ability to access media), critical skills (understanding, interpreting and critical evaluation of media content) and practical skills (creating media contents – in particular writing texts for the media; developing and using ICT tools for activities through the media). They will learn to create media content and a blog. Each partner organization will have its own blog with texts on youth policy and combating antidemocratic manifestations by the end of the TC. The participants will also learn to use social networks as vehicles for the media activism. TC will be implemented by different working methods and techniques of non-formal learning which stimulate creativity and active participation.Host: CDERLocation: Krusevac (Serbia)Duration: 4th-13th December, 2015Working lang.: English2. Creating educative content (OER):- an online course on media literacy and media activism;- an online course on how to create blog on youth policy and democracy;- a database of existing open resources on media literacy/activism. 3. Creating an informative-educative portal. The Portal will consist of: - a transnational e-Magazine for youth policy and promotion of democratic values;- knowledge database on media literacy/activism (created through Activity 2). An e-Magazine will publish media content in English created by the youth workers that attended the TC, as well as other young people, youth workers and experts. This content will partially contain information from other websites. PARTNERS: 11 youth NGOs from RS, AL, ME, MK, BH, UK, EE, LV, AT, DE. PROJECT LEADER: CDER (RS)DURATION: 01/10/2015–30/06/2016