#NewME - New Media for Green Citizenship. Empowerment of youth as active reporters for sustainable citizenship through the development of new media skills

Since social media platforms gained a prominent role in everyday life issues, and political and societal debates and became a natural part of networking, they also took over certain key functions that Media traditionally occupied before the rise of the Internet. Our project features the idea of New Media: Facing the development of social media, media devices and apps, it is not important anymore to provide independent distribution opportunities. Having said that, it is even more important to provide a thorough media education and orientation for everybody. The experience shows that teaching people about media production will turn them into more responsible consumers. Nowadays, learners are always online with mobile phones in their hands – on the way to school, in their free time or while eating. Using New Media properly fulfils the needs of modern learners. #NewME is exciting, personalized and flexible. With a well designed e-platform and e-cross-media-blog the learners engage themselves in the process of learning on their own terms and in the experience of developing their decision-making skills. Simultaneously New Media are on the rise in the partner countries and local. Youth audiences are not just recipients of mainstream information but also people formally known as audiences – ready to produce content of high interest.

Partners:
- Youth on Board, North Macedonia
- Life-Project Joanna Zwolińska, Poland
- Nesehnuti Brno, Czech Republic
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

Results:
-e-book: a multidimensional and comprehensive e-book for Youth Workers and youth organizations employing those who work with youths, and adolescents;
-An e-learning platform with multimedia Training Modules (e.g. video tutorials, photos, interactive tasks, etc.) and an assessment system which will be a self-learning tool for Youth to improve their skills in New Media production;
-e-brochure for Youth Workers on how to use the tool of an online magazine/blog for raising awareness about Sustainable Development among Youth and encouraging them to become Green Reporters.

Objectives:
- Strengthened cooperation and exchange of knowledge and good practices in the project field
- 5 partner organisations varied the educational offer and implemented the #NewME educational programme and over 60 were prepared for this.
- 1000 pcs of educational materials delivered to organisations and Youth in the form of magazine (pdf format – digital)
- A learning platform has been elaborated and used (registered users) by min. 200 Youth