Who can Apply?
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Activists, designers, content creators, journalists, teachers, students and professionals, in education, mass media, gender studies, …
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Aged above 18 years
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Involved in Media Information Literacy (MIL) education
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Committed to counter gender disinformation online and offline
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Able to express themselves comfortably in English
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Available for the entire duration of the Civic Hackathon (25-27 September 2024)
Based in Italy, France, Bulgaria, Greece, or one of the other Member States of the EU
Selection Procedure
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Registrations open until Monday 8th July
2. Selection: until 19th July
CRITERIA:
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Affinity with subject
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Balance between genders, ages, geographical regions, and backgrounds of candidates.
3. Practical travel arrangements (until end July)
4. Online Introduction meeting at beginning of September (to be defined)
Practical Info
Place: Perugia, Italy
Dates: from 25 to 27 September 2024
Working language: English
Travel, accommodation and subsistence will be provided by GenderED Coalition Project*
*conditions apply. For more info see Rules
Format
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40 participants from Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy or other EU countries
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8 international and multidisciplinary teams
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48 hours of intensive collaboration and co-creation
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5 media products, creative tools or campaigns selected for international dissemination
*conditions apply. For more info see Rules
Rules
By participating in the Hackathon, Participants accept the binding of the Civic Hackathon Rules and agree to comply by their provisions.
Features
Our experts
Creative sessions will be guided and facilitated by high-profile communication experts, online content creators and gender equality activists from all partner countries [button discover more soon…]
Past experiences
The initiative is based on the experiences of the IN-EDU project and the REInSER project, which share a common approach to activating local actors as agents of change.
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Challenges
GenderED Coalition Civic Hackathon will cover the following areas of gender-based discrimination and violence as result of gendered disinformation:
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To monitor gendered disinformation on social media platforms → acquiring data to better know the problem and its impact on women and girls;
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To challenge gendered disinformation on social media platforms → new patriarchy-free narrative;
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To cancel the impact of misleading and offensive visual and textual representation of women and girls online → support/prevention actions for victims and potential victims.
Results
5 products will be selected for the diffusion of the media product or the implementation of the envisaged campaign, and will correspond to one of the following categories:
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a multimedia/artistic product
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a creative tool (being artistic performances promoting counter-narratives and usually to be realised in cooperation at community level);
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contents for a social media campaign;
The selection will be done by a Jury with representatives from the Board of Experts and experienced MIL educators.