Shutterstock
Promoting media literacy
Where
Finland
Finland
When
2016
2016
Who
Ministry of education and culture, national audiovisual institute.national audiovisual institute’s media education unit is responsible for media education in finland (https://kavi.fi/en/about-kavi/media-education-and-audiovisual-media/media-education
Ministry of education and culture, national audiovisual institute.national audiovisual institute’s media education unit is responsible for media education in finland (https://kavi.fi/en/about-kavi/media-education-and-audiovisual-media/media-education
Read the full report
Go to full report
Go to full report
Description of the policy/measure
The ministry of education and culture guidelines provide goals and measures involving every-day media education focused on children and adolescents, sustainable structures to help pursue and institute media education, stakeholder profiling and partnerships and finland’s active role in global efforts. link to the publication: http://www.minedu.fi/opm/julkaisut/2013/hyva_medialukutaito.html?lang=fi&extra_locale=en
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
See objectives above.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
All in all 9,3 million euros haven been allocated to the programme in 2006-2015 and app. 3,7 million euro in 2012-2015. there is some 0,5 million euro reserved annually in the state budget for supporting media education activities provided by the third sector.
Evaluation of the policy/measure
A survey has been carried out of the outcomes of our national policy guidelines for 2013–2016”. one of the strengths of the system seems to be that a large number of non-governemental organisations are co-operating in promoting media and information literacy along these policy guidelines. non-governmental organisations, the private sector and the public sector are all working together towards commonly agreed goals. the main focus has been on participatory approach with children and young people. for more please see:https://kavi.fi/en/media-education-and-audiovisual-media/publicationsdigitalisation is one of the key elements in our current government policy. afresh report on media pluralism states about finland that “the country has a well developed and implemented policy for promoting media literacy.” (see: http://monitor.cmpf.eui.eu/mpm2015/results/finland/)