The national event of Belgium took place on November 8th in Brussels and was a reel success with a lot of exchanges among professionals from the socio-cultural, associative, formal and informal educational field.
The event was divided in three part:
1. The conference with 3 speakers to define the 3 focus of the day:
- Focus 1: Criticism of the media discourse to denounce racism
Laura Calabrese, Professor of Multilingual Communication in the Department of communication and information of the ULB. « How to denounce the banal manifestations of racism in the media? What grids of analysis should be mobilized without participating in a general mistrust towards them? »
- Focus 2: Criticism and use of the media to mobilize
Edgard Szoc, in charge of studies and animation at BePax. « What opportunities for alternative speech offer new media? How do they facilitate the mobilization of citizens on the issue of interculturality? «
- Focus 3: Production of media to include
Amandine Kech, coordinator of Mag-ma asbl . « What are the advantages of media expression in terms of emancipation and citizen participation for people from minority backgrounds? »
2. The round-table – on the field
Several speakers shared their field experience in media education to highlight the 3 focus of the morning with a practical perspective. The debate with the public aimed to identify the strengths and limitations of the different approaches and to discuss the challenges of interculturality in media education.
Leaded by Daniel Bonvoisin from Média Animation ASBL , the round-table gathered:
- Laurent Van Ruysevelt, French teacher at Institut Saint-Louis
- Nathalie Hanoul, French teacher at Lycée Saint François de Sales (Gilly)
- Benoit Laloux from Action Média Jeunes
- Olivier Bonny, coordinator of Programme de Cohésion Sociale à Molenbeek
- Mireille-Tsheusi Robert from Bamko asbl
- Mustapha Chairi from Collectif Contre l’Islamophobie en Belgique
- Laura Dachelet from Média Animation ASBL
- Moïse Essoh from SHARE-Forum-des-Migrants
3. Inspiration workshops: How to #MEETolerance
The Inspiration workshops allowed participants to discover media education projects led by associations, educators and teachers and to discuss more informally the challenges posed by interculturality in the field:
- Maxime Verbesselt from Action Médias Jeunes with the project « Rives d’Europe »
- Pauline Bombaert from Comme un lundi asbl with the project « Parlons Jeunes, parlons cliché »
- Mathieu Blairon – Philippe Lebacq from AMO TCC Accueil with the project « Esprits critiques »
- Amandine Kech from Mag-ma asbl l with the project « Happy Identity »
- Hélène Blondeau from CIMB (Centre Régional d’Intégration Mons Borinage et Wallonie Picarde) with the project « Imm’médias »
- Stéphanie Ardu from Cible asbl with the project clicgauche.be
- Laura Dachelet from Média Animation asbl with the project « Ateliers médias-expression »
- Emilien Hommé from AMO Samarcande with the project « Samarc’ondes »
- Pierre Chemin from Le Cordon Musical with the project « Parents, si vous chantez »
We thank all our speakers and participants who enriched the debates and conversations !
Organised by Média Animation ASBL in the framework of the project MEET – Media Education for Equity and Tolerance. Cofunded by the European Commission
Download the programme of the conference here
