Watch the weekly videos in preparation for your online group session here and submit your video-lecture comment.
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Here you find essential information about the curriculum, assignments and requirements for participation.
What kind of gender norms and stereotypes exists in media industries? How might people with different identities research, analyse, or report on an event or policy differently? What would be different, if anything, if there was more diversity in leadership positions in the media?
In the 5-week Virtual Exchange Course ‘Gender In/equality in Media and Journalism’, participants discuss these and other questions during small, intercultural, facilitated, online group meetings. Inspired by learning resources and expert content they learn with and from each other about different aspects of the gender-media relationship.
Participants gain a grounded understanding of different inequality and intersectional issues including representation and stereotyping employment and working conditions, access to decision-making and leadership positions, the implications of digitalisation for media professions, harassment and abuse in the newsroom, and issues of governance and policy.
Participants do not only exchange, reflect and discuss these topics, but also engage in practice-based assignments where they will create a video- audio- or written report based on community interviews.
See the COURSE OUTLINE for a weekly breakdown of the topics and more >
This course is open and free of charge to anyone between 18- 30 years old and is a resident in or with the nationality off, one of the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange Project countries. Eligible participants can apply individually online (go to the section ‘Apply’).
We offer support and consultation to partnering organisations that would like eligible students, volunteers or affiliates to take part in Interactive Open Online Courses. Please contact our partnerships team below for more information.
As a participant of this course, you are asked to submit a short weekly assignment and a final assignment to make your participation a success. For details see the Course Outline.
VIDEO LECTURE COMMENT | WEEKLY
Prior to your online group meeting each week, watch the week’s videos and then respond to at least one lecture with a comment, observation or question.
FINAL MEDIA FOCUSSED ASSIGNMENT
Conduct short interviews and produce a final media-focused assignment alongside group members. In your online groups, you will collectively think up a leading question that you deem important to ask the wider public. As individuals, participants will conduct short interviews in their own communities to answer the question and prepare reporting on this. Your final product can be either video, audio, or written format, with a focus on gender inclusion (Examples: blog post, social media campaign, photo series, article, video feature, etc.) It will be presented back to your group in the final week. See some examples of past participants here, here and here.
Submit your final product PRIOR TO YOUR LAST ONLINE GROUP MEETING
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Interactive Open Online Courses provide youth with the opportunity to learn both with and from their peers across cultural contexts and national boundaries. The facilitated online meetings are organized around relevant skill-building activities and discussing dynamic content provided by expert academics and practitioners.
If you are interested in offering this course to your students, volunteers in your organisation, or other eligible participants, please contact us. We are happy to offer more information and discuss possible partnership arrangements.
Interactive Open Online Courses provide youth with the opportunity to learn both with and from their peers across cultural contexts and national boundaries in facilitated online meetings alongside relevant skill-building activities and dynamic content provided by expert academics and practitioners. These courses combine the deep impact of intercultural exchange with the broad reach of online learning to allow more young people to have meaningful intercultural learning experiences as part of their formal or non-formal education. Interactive Open Online Courses are part of Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange. This project provides an accessible, ground-breaking way for young people to engage in intercultural learning.
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Participants in the interactive courses are provided with the opportunity to:
This Interactive Open Online Course is part of the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange project and as such produced under a contract with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, financed by the Union’s budget. The opinions expressed are those of the Sharing Perspectives Foundation, our partners and participants only and do not represent the European Commission’s official position.
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