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MEDIA LITERACY NETWORK IS ONE NEW DIGITAL MOVEMENT WILL DEVELOP ONLINE PLATFORM FOR THE MULTILEVEL CROSS SECTORS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN MEDIA LITERACY

• The main goal of the Platform will be the collection, promotion and dissemination of the mew methodologies, projects and audio visual tools in new and traditional media.
• Everybody working in media literacy is welcome to become a member of the Platform without membership fee if accepted to promote the Platform and give to the Platform one or more creative projects application.
• The Platform will offer to the members wide online visibility, events, workshops and seminars and large list of potential partners for international cooperation and projects.
• The Platform will offer to every member online space and editorial rights for providing information, audio visual promotion of multimedia productions and call for participation through easy and user friendly online software.
• Open a Media Literacy Market to trade expertise and profit from th

Bring creativity and global awareness into your classroom by incorporating the World of 7 Billion high school video contest. Challenge your students to create a short (60 seconds or less) video illustrating the connection between world population at seven billion and one of the following: climate change, global poverty, or water sustainability. Students can win up to $1,000 and their educators will receive free curriculum resources. The contest deadline is February 21, 2014. Full contest guidelines, resources for research, past winners, and more can be found at www.Worldof7Billion.org.  

February 7th and 8th 2014

Purpose

The research community has a responsibility to provide the knowledge needed to move our society towards positive changes while impacting our youths. As such, the purpose of this conference is to promote youth employability and globalization. Apart from academics the conference aims at attracting a variety of business organizations with an interest in youth, employment and globalization, hence providing a space to blend theory and practice as well as to identify best practices.

Introduction

To have a better understanding into the objective of this conference we define globalization as a financial, economic, educational, technological, psychological, cultural, leadership and many other areas that interconnect and correspond with the interests of young people. We are living in a very complex, and fast-paced era. Consequently, the Youth Employability and Globalization Conference goal is to engage the research community, and promote the improvement of research