Partners
EDMO BELUX is a cross-community, multilingual collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, Mediawijs, Média Animation, EU DisinfoLab, Agence France-Presse, RTBF, RTL Luxembourg and Athens Technology Center.
The Belgian Radio-Television of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (RTBF) is an autonomous public cultural enterprise, active in television, radio, the web and social networks. Its missions are defined around two axes; the needs and expectations of French-speaking Belgian citizens, and its desire to inform, entertain and educate. RTBF info department’s primary mission is to certify information and to place investigation at the heart of its approach.
AFP is a leading global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of the events shaping our world and of the issues affecting our daily lives. Drawing from an unparalleled news gathering network across 151 countries, AFP also is a world leader in digital verification with specialized journalists in nearly 80 countries.
Athens Technology Center, a tech expert on fighting disinformation. ATC coordinates the SOMA project, operating the European observatory against disinformation. ATC will set-up and operate a secure online platform supporting the detection and analysis of disinformation campaigns.
Engage – Research Center for Publicness in Contemporary Communication – investigates the way social actors engage with each other and with society at large, with an emphasis on questions of media, communication and discourse. Engage is part of Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, a university based in the heart of Brussels.
Mediawijs, the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Digital and Media Literacy, helps the citizens of the Flemish community in Flanders and Brussels to use and understand digital technology and media actively, creatively, critically and consciously. It was started by the Flemish Minister for Media at imec vzw and, among others, coordinates News in the Classroom.
The Belgian Radio-Television of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (RTBF) is an autonomous public cultural enterprise. Active in television, radio, the web and social networks, RTBF is an actor in its community and a driver of expression and development of its audiences. RTBF’s primary mission is to confirm and certify information before explaining it and putting it into perspective by placing the investigation at the heart of its approach.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) coordinates the EDMO BELUX project. Within the VUB, EDMO BELUX is a joint venture between the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) at the Brussels School of Governance, and the Centre for Studies on Media, Innovation and Technology (imec-SMIT).
Média Animation is a non-profit organisation recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Education that provides training and produces tools for adult audiences: teachers, youth and adult leaders. Its mission is to train and produce tools to promote critical thinking and message production in a media society through different themes: fake news, conspiracy theories, advertising, gender stereotypes, audio-visual production… Média Animation is a member of the Higher Council for Media Literacy (Conseil Supérieur de l’Education aux Médias) which promotes education in all educational sectors in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
The High Council for Media Literacy (Conseil supérieur de l’Education aux Médias – CSEM) is the public authority in charge of Media Literacy for Brussels-Wallonia Federation.
CSEM is composed by 97 members with 8 supporting staff workers . The composition reflects all the sectors and stakeholders potentially involved in Media literacy:
CSEM has a large range of goals including coordination of ML initiatives, communication and dissemination of ML in all the sectors of the society, common framework and positions related to media phenomenon (Hate speech, disinformation,…) , evaluation and funding of specific initiatives, giving advices to ministers and government (at request our by his own initiative).
CSEM is in charge of funding, evaluation and follow up of different projects and initiatives (resources centres for education, newspaper in classrooms, film education initiative, journalists in classrooms and thematic call for projects.
A short video presenting CSEM is available on this page:
Le Conseil | CSEM
Concrete actions
In the first thirty months of its operation, the hub will publish 800 fact-checks in five languages, conduct OSINT (open source intelligence) investigations on disinformation campaigns, develop and implement media literacy activities at community level in three languages and deliver annual cross-community audience studies on impact of disinformation campaigns, as well as annual assessments of effectiveness of platform responses to disinformation.