Year in Review

As we approach the end of a busy 2023, the CLIP project team is  pleased to share some highlights of our work this year. We have continued our focus on strengthening digital capabilities of the Higher Education sector by increasing resilience to manipulation and polarisation focusing on the important issue of critical visual literacy education, that is a fundamental component of the way European students and citizens are getting informed in today’s digital era.

Specifically, this year we have:

  • analysed good practices in the field of teaching visual media literacy in Higher Education, as well as tools to support the tracking of misleading visual representations, and interviewed a variety of experts and practitioners to gather suggestions and recommendations for the identification of specific competences related to visual media literacy;
  • published a Report on Visual Media Literacy in European Higher Education, which is available at: https://clipproject.eu/results/report-on-visual-media-literacy/;
  • designed the micro-learning course on Critical Visual Media Literacy and Fluency; produced digital contents and activities for the course, and run the internal test; 
  • launched a call for expressions of interest to participate in the pilot delivery of the online micro-learning course, which resulted in +300 expressions of interest from learners from 27 countries;
  • delivered the pilot edition of the online course from 23 October 2023 until 24 November 2023 with IULM and HOU students and external participants;
  • awarded so far +100 certificates of completion to participants who successfully completed the online course.

Furthermore, we have raised awareness on critical visual literacy through a number of dissemination activities and events, and we had insightful discussions with our CLIP colleagues during our monthly online meetings and continuous exchanges as well as during our in-person meeting in Athens in April 2023.

We are enthusiastic about the results of our collaborative work and we hope 2024 will be a great year to make even more people aware of the importance of critical visual literacy at all levels of education by enabling them to participate in our activities.

At the beginning of 2024, the CLIP project will launch a consultation to develop sustainable strategies for the integration of visual media literacy in the learning offering of Higher Education Institutions across Europe.

Lastly, we invite you to save-the-date for the CLIP closing workshop which will take place on 21 March 2024 in Brussels organised by ALL DIGITAL.

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We wish you a serene holiday period, and a very Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating!

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CLIP is a 18 months project co-funded with support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Project nr. 2022-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000087261

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