Annual Report 2015

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Annual Report 2015

EVENS
FOUNDATION
ANNUAL REPORT 2015
LIVING TOGETHER
HARMONIOUSLY
IN EUROPE
CONTENTS
OUR MISSION I WHAT WE DO I ABOUT THE EVENS FOUNDATION
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CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE 4
PEACE EDUCATION Ghent nursery wins Peace Education Prize 2015
Conflict management learning lab is a great success
Conflict Matters conference draws participants from 27 countries
New online platform highlights good practices in peace education
Peace Education On The Move all across Europe
Highly praised conflict management program reveals need for training
Belfedar proves a winning tool in promoting cooperation
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MEDIA
Media Education Prize 2015 promoted good use of social media
Magazine focused on good practices in use of media at home
Conference gathers media literacy professionals from all around Europe
New platform answers three crucial media literacy needs
Dutch EU correspondent wins European Journalism Prize
Young journalists focus on constructive reporting of hot issues
WawaLab multimedia materials reach over 300,000 viewers
Street School wins French government recognition
Training produces 75 new MediaCoaches
Turn On social campaigns attract widespread coverage
Ersilia project honored by the French government
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EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP Cycle of Conferences tackles alienation of EU citizens
Arts Prize awarded to Artway of Thinking
What’s Your ID? tool inspires debate on European values
Seven cities unite in City Ghettos exploration
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LOOKING FORWARD
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OUR MISSION
The Evens Foundation initiates, develops and supports projects that encourage citizens and
nations to live together harmoniously in a diverse Europe in the world.
It promotes respect for diversity, both individual and collective, and works to strengthen people’s
physical, psychological and moral integrity.
WHAT WE DO
The Evens Foundation initiates and supports sustainable projects, and awards biennial prizes that
contribute to the progress and strengthening of Europe, based on cultural and social diversity, in the
fields of:
· Peace Education
· Media
· European Citizenship
ABOUT THE EVENS FOUNDATION
The Evens Foundation is a public-benefit foundation with headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium and
additional offices in Paris and Warsaw.
Created in 1990, it owes its existence to the generosity of the late Mrs Irène Evens-Radzyminska
and Mr Georges Evens, philanthropists and European enthusiasts. Of Polish origin, they settled after
the Second World War in Antwerp, where Mr Evens pursued a remarkable career in the diamond
industry. Given his great success in business, he and Mrs Evens-Radzyminska decided to give
something back to society – through the Evens Foundation.
Mrs Corinne Evens – daughter of the two founders – is Honorary President of the Foundation.
can browse a map of Europe to discover such practices, or select
France s’engage initiative, which helps to disseminate inspiring social
practices by category. We’ll add lots more cases as we discover them.
innovation projects.
On a more playful note, the Belfedar cooperative game enjoyed another
Finally, some highlights in our European Citizenship program. Our rea-
This past year has been a great success on many fronts. Having
year of expansion and is proving a very popular tool for teaching co-
sons for organizing the Cycle of Conferences in 2015 are clear from the
developed our new biennial strategic plan, we launched new pro-
operation and conflict resolution.
title “How to bridge the gap between European Citizens and European
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
Institutions”. The four conferences (in London, Bologna, Krakow and
jects and initiatives in 2014 that bore fruit in 2015 in the form of exciting
events, conferences, projects and Evens Prize winners.
In our Media program, we focused strongly on children and adoles-
Brussels) welcomed almost 4,000 participants from all over the world.
cents to use social media in a careful, constructive way. The Evens Prize
The talks and discussions were dynamic and often passionate.
It has been wonderfully rewarding to see our plans, our expertise, our
for Media Education 2015 – awarded to the Dutch network organization
sustained work and activities converging in initiatives and projects that
Mediawijzer.net – was all about promoting good use of social media,
We also continued to promote our What’s Your ID? platform for meeting
help to realize our core mission of seeing us all “living harmoniously to-
as was the second edition of our Media Literacy in Europe magazine,
and reflecting on European values, in Belgium, France and Poland. Any
gether in Europe”.
“Inspiring ways to involve parents”.
group that wants to reflect on European values can freely access a film,
I’ll look briefly at the 2015 highlights of each program in turn: Peace
The prize was awarded at the Media Meets Literacy… in Warsaw con-
specific theme, around 1,500 people took part in our City Ghettos of
Education, Media, and European Citizenship.
ference in May, which celebrated our work in the media and information
Today project, which concluded in February with debate and a large-
literacy field over more than five years. The conference gathered over
scale installation-performance.
a manual and various presentations on the Evens website. On a more
First, Peace Education. We organized a Learning Lab in Warsaw
200 participants.
in January, attended by NGOs from various EU countries, focus-
We can think about political and citizenship matters in more indirect
ing on constructive conflict management. As a result, six organi-
Turning from consumers of the media to those who produce the content,
ways. The Evens Arts Prize was awarded to Artway of Thinking, which
zations partnered and gained Erasmus+ funding for a project to de-
our Prize for European Journalism was awarded to Marc Peeperkorn,
researches collective creative processes; 120 international guests were
velop and promote conflict management in education throughout
EU correspondent for De Volkskrant, while the Evens Encouragement
welcomed to the prizegiving ceremony in the beautiful Palazzo Mora
Europe. We also partnered with Fundacja Swiadomego Rozwoju
Award for European Journalism went to Polish freelancer Katarzyna
in Venice.
to provide four days of Nonviolent Communication training to around 50
Zachariasz. They were honored at the Difference Day event in May in
(future) teachers in Poland.
Bozar, Brussels, on World Press Freedom Day.
Peace education is indeed on the move; in fact, that’s the title
In Athens, the 2015 Annual Congress of the FEJS, which the Evens
all our projects, within budget, and we achieved our goals for the year,
of another project in which teachers from all around Europe ex-
Foundation supported, focused on “Stereotypes, media exclusion and
reaching almost 200,000 people directly and over a million people in-
changed visits in 2014/2015, to share their expertise and insights
far-right rhetoric in European media”, and was attended by journalism
directly.
into peace education in schools. By all accounts, the Peace Education
students and young journalists from all over Europe. In Warsaw, our
On The Move participants found the experience inspiring. They joined
WawaLab project resulted in a manual, “How to make a CITY.LAB”,
Much gratitude is due to our donors and external partners, to the mem-
the more than 300 people from 27 countries who attended the first
which shows how to organize a similar project in the context of a dif-
bers of the Advisory Board, the members of the Board of Administration,
edition of our Conflict Matters – Learning Across Difference confer-
ferent city.
and to Corinne Evens for her passionate commitment to our mission,
That, then, is a quick run-through of the year’s main highlights. Our staff
worked with great competence, application and focus; we implemented
and her strong focus and direction.
ence in Brussels in October. At this great conference, the third Evens
Prize for Peace Education was awarded to the Ghent nursery Tierlan-
Still under our Media program, the Foundation has been supporting the
tuin, a model in developing the social skills of babies and toddlers.
Street School for Young Journalists in Paris since 2012, so we were
We hope you enjoy reading through our report of activities, which we
delighted to hear that it had been recognized as a Grande Ecole du
hope to emulate and develop further in 2016.
On the Conflict Matters website, you will see a new online platform
Numérique (#GEN). A further French government distinction went to the
that we launched to highlight good practices in peace education: you
EF supported Ersilia (image literacy e-tool) project, laureate of the La
Luc Luyten, Chairman
PEACE EDUCATION
The Evens Foundation highly values the contribution of active,
critical and responsible citizens to achieving a more harmonious
and democratic society in Europe, based on cultural and social
diversity. With the Foundation’s Peace Education program, we
wish to encourage children, young people and adults to
think critically and become agents in a culture of peace
within their families, schools, social networks, communities, etc...
We are convinced that a constructive attitude towards conflict –
seeing it as an opportunity rather than a problem – is crucial so
as to further a culture of peace in an ever more diverse society.
The Peace Education program thus initiates and supports educational projects and organizations that promote the management of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts in a positive way.
We work on different levels: we initiate innovative pilot projects;
support the exchange of inspiring practices; fund research related to the topic; facilitate networking among EU-based organizations active in the field of conflict management in education,
and support organizations in their efforts to convince policymakers of the importance of conflict management education.
GHENT NURSERY WINS PEACE EDUCATION PRIZE 2015
The external jury for the Evens Foundation Prize for Peace
Education 2015 selected Ghent nursery Tierlantuin unanimously from a shortlist of 14 projects from all over Europe. The
prize was awarded on 22 October 2015 in De Loketten of the
Flemish Parliament in Brussels in the framework of the Conflict
Matters conference. On this occasion, all selected candidates
were invited to an exchange seminar so that they could share
experiences and good practices.
In this edition of the biennial European prize, the Evens Foundation
looked for initiatives and practices that strive to awaken and
strengthen the social competence of preschool children –
below the age of six – with particular focus on skills that
facilitate a constructive attitude towards conflict.
The independent jury of international experts was particularly impressed by the Ghent nursery’s visibility and accessibility within its
neighborhood, the strong parental and community involvement,
and the ongoing and natural integration of diversity (working in
various languages, diversity of personnel, etc). According to members of the jury, the implicit, integrated approach adopted by Tierlantuin is exactly what is needed to encourage the development of social
skills among babies and toddlers. The nursery received a cash award
of €25,000, some of which is to be used to share their vision and good
practices with colleagues in other European countries.
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT LEARNING LAB IS A GREAT SUCCESS
The Evens Foundation invited a select group of NGOs from different EU countries to participate in a Learning Lab in Warsaw in
January 2015, dedicated to the development and promotion of
constructive conflict management in education.
In some European countries or regions, constructive conflict management is part of the official school curriculum or educational policy. In certain cases it took a campaign to convince policymakers of the importance of conflict-management education. In
other cases, a particular incident provoked educational actors to
respond. But the question remains: What kind of educational
policy best develops the skills and competencies that facilitate a constructive attitude towards conflict in the school
context?
Although the educational contexts in European countries differ
widely, NGOs active in the field can be inspired and motivated
through sharing best practice, advocacy actions to promote
constructive conflict management in education, and insights into
contexts where conflict management education is integrated in
educational policy.
Dedicating a European learning lab to explore the policy dimension
of conflict-management education also links actors throughout
Europe and contributes to a Europe-wide movement that draws
attention to the importance of positive conflict management in
education.
The learning lab was a great success. It led to six organizations
partnering and gaining Erasmus+ funding for a project aimed
at developing a common conflict-management training curriculum for teachers, researching the state of the art in policy related to
conflict management in education, undertaking advocacy actions
and further expanding the network in this field.
CONFLICT MATTERS CONFERENCE DRAWS PARTICIPANTS FROM 27 COUNTRIES
More than 300 people from 27 countries attended the first edition
of our Conflict Matters – Learning Across Difference confe
rence in Brussels (21-23 October 2015), including over 100 future
teachers from the Erasmus University College.
At this three-day event, practitioners, teachers, policymakers, students and researchers discovered good practices and inspiring
initiatives, and forged new partnerships to better promote
conflict management in education. The Conflict Matters conference also offered them a platform to share and reflect on
educational policies in the field of constructive conflict
management.
The conference started with four keynote speakers who challenged the audience to reconsider our relation to conflict and explore its potential for learning and transformation, both personal
and social. The next day was dedicated to exchanging good practices, knowledge and experience to deal with urgent challenges
such as prejudice, racism, school violence and dropouts. In the
evening, as a festive intermezzo, the third Evens Prize for Peace
Education was officially awarded to the Ghent nursery Tierlantuin (see above). The final day focused on how to expand this
exciting movement for conflict management in education.
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NEW ONLINE PLATFORM HIGHLIGHTS GOOD PRACTICES IN PEACE EDUCATION
The Evens Foundation has launched a new tool for practitioners:
an online platform to discover and highlight good practices in peace education, and to discuss the key issues
with colleagues from all over Europe.
For some years now, the Evens Foundation has been gathering
information on such good practices through its Peace Education
Prize as well as through practitioners, school exchanges involving job-shadowing, and practitioners’ learning laboratories.
Knowing that educators are keen to discover and share new
approaches and practices, the Evens Foundation launched this
website as a new platform to enable dissemination and connection. It will also help to identify the key elements that make a
practice a success, and it provides a space for reflective practice
and external assessment among peers.
The practices have been selected and described following a
process of dialogue between the Evens Foundation, the Escola
de Cultura de Pau (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and
each of the practitioners. This process allows us to identify the
strengths of each practice, reflect on the process of implementing it, and highlight its good results. We will continue to update
this website – www.conflictmatters.eu
PEACE EDUCATION ON THE MOVE ALL ACROSS EUROPE
In the school year 2014/2015, teachers in schools all around
Europe exchanged visits with each other to share their experience
of and insights into peace education in schools.
Through the Peace Education On The Move project, the Foundation sought to detect, recognize and disseminate good practi
ces in the field of conflict management in education. We identified
18 primary/elementary schools and their teachers – from Belgium,
Poland, France, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Hungary and Germany – that have integrated and consistently
implement peace education principles in their school policy and
functioning, with particular focus on positive conflict management.
The core of the project consisted of two-week teacher exchanges on the peace education practices in the schools. Each
school was both host and guest. Every school was invited to send
two of their educational staff to another school for one week. Each
school received two people to get to know their school and projects related to peace education.
All the participants were invited to attend the Conflict Matters
conference. There was a great appetite to find out about each
other’s experiences and the changes implemented as a result of
the exchanges, and enthusiasm about the next steps.
HIGHLY PRAISED CONFLICT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM REVEALS NEED FOR TRAINING
Being active in the field of conflict management in education for
several years, the Foundation noticed that the practice of constructive conflict management in education was quite new to the
Polish educational system. Convinced that Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a good and gentle way to start reflecting on
constructive conflict-management strategies in the educational
context in Poland, the Foundation partnered with Fundacja
Swiadomego Rozwoju to set up a pilot training in Nonviolent
Communication for (future) teachers.
In total, about 50 people participated in the training. The evaluation
shows that the participants considered this training of great value
to better deal with conflicts in their professional and personal lives.
As a result of this collaboration, a four-day training was organized for two groups of future teachers from Warsaw University and one group of young teachers. The training included an
introduction to the principles of NVC, as well as understanding of
how NVC can be applied to the variety of conflicts that may arise in
the participants’ daily work with kids and young people, and gave
a lot of space and time for practice and feedback. It also helped to
share another perspective on conflict: conflict as an opportunity for dialogue rather than as a problem.
The evaluation also shows that there is a need to develop the
skills as part of formal and continuous teacher training. The
amount of negative thoughts and difficult emotions related to
conflict that were recorded in the pre-training questionnaires
points to a serious issue we are facing within the school system.
They especially praised its practical character, based on real-life
experiences. Already after four days of training, the participants
experienced a notable shift in their approach to conflict situations:
acting instead of ignoring, and finding that their actions, far from
contributing to conflict, had a positive impact.
If the adults feel overwhelmed with emotions, and do not know
how to deal with conflict, they cannot model and promote constructive ways of dealing both with conflicts and emotions.
BELFEDAR PROVES A WINNING TOOL IN PROMOTING COOPERATION
The Belfedar cooperative game in 2015 enjoyed its second year
of intensive, successful promotion and dissemination, in Poland,
France, Belgium and Spain. Together with our partners, we orga
nized dozens of workshops for educators and animators, in-depth
training for teachers, game sessions in schools, social centers and
libraries, and presentations at boardgame fairs.
We got involved in new, interesting partnerships in the fields of
both formal and informal education, and presented the game to
hundreds of boardgame and cooperation enthusiasts. We also
promoted the game through mass and specialized media, adding
to its visibility and recognition.
Belfedar is now increasingly popular as a tool for teaching
cooperation in a group and in conflict resolution.
Belfedar is the fruit of a partnership between the Evens Foundation
and the Université de Paix. A boardgame for 4-8 players aged
over 10, it encourages constructive communication, cooperation
and group solidarity. It also helps to develop social skills for mana
ging conflict and preventing violence. Through amusing exercises,
players better understand both themselves and others, develop
self-esteem, and learn creative expression, management of emotions, listening, cooperation, etc. The challenges offered are both
active and interactive: mime, drawings, word-games, writing,
movement, singing, and so on.
We will continue to promote peace in Europe in 2016 in this “playful” way in order to raise awareness among educators about the
importance of constructive group dynamics, and to teach groups
of all ages positive conflict management.
MEDIA
To promote harmonious living together, the Evens Foundation
seeks to stimulate efforts to increase media literacy – by raising
critical awareness and by encouraging media creativity. Both
of these activities contribute to the development of highly
aware, active and responsible citizens.
The Evens Foundation defines media literacy as the ability to
access and understand the media, take a critical approach to
media content, and be able to create communication in a variety
of contexts. In the media domain, the Evens Foundation will thus
continue to work in particular on projects that:
• Enhance the media literacy of citizens, with special focus on
media education for children and young people
• Raise a critical attitude to the media by enhancing understan ding of how the media influence perceptions and convictions
• Encourage a strong sense of responsibility among journalists
and editors, and in particular young journalists, so that they use
the power of journalism to reduce conflict and promote har mony in European society
• Research the role of the new social media in both conflict and
conflict management
MEDIA EDUCATION PRIZE 2015 PROMOTED GOOD USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The Evens Prize for Media Education 2015 was awarded to the
Dutch network organization Mediawijzer.net for its Media Masters. The Austrian Institute for Critical Digital Culture, Cracked
Labs, was awarded the runner-up prize for its online game Data
Dealer.
bute to a wiser use of social media”. The aim was to support
existing initiatives that contribute to the education of children and
adolescents (aged 9-16), directly or through their teachers or parents, so that they use social media in a sensible, constructive and
ethical way.
The awards ceremony was held during the Media Meets Literacy conference that the Evens Foundation organized in Warsaw
on 21 and 22 May 2015.
An external international jury of experts awarded the main prize
to Mediawijzer.net. Among other noteworthy elements, the jury
highlighted the organization’s holistic and thorough approach
to increasing the overall media literacy level in The Netherlands.
It praised the winning project for its playful yet very effective way
of educating children on a broad range of media issues. The organization received the sum of €25,000, which is partly allocated for creating a mobile version of the Media Masters game.
This Media Education prize focused on an important and omnipresent domain within contemporary media: the social media
networks. The title of the prize was “Young People and Social
Media: Meeting the Challenges – For projects that contri-
Cracked Labs was selected as the runner-up for its Data Dealer project. This project was especially praised for its innovative
approach in creating an extraordinary learning context for children. Also, the provocative oddity of this game, in which young
players are invited to play the role of the ‘bad guy’, was much
appreciated.
The organization received the sum of €15,000, which is partly
allocated for creating educational materials that accompany the
online game.
More information on evensfoundation.be/en/prizes/
media-education/2015
MAGAZINE FOCUSED ON GOOD PRACTICES IN USE OF MEDIA AT HOME
Our second edition of the Media Literacy in Europe magazine is titled
Inspiring ways to involve parents. This time we decided to focus
entirely on the role that parents play (or should play) in their children’s
media education. After all, the first place where children are confronted with media is within the family, so parents (and grandparents,
too) play a crucial role. This is why we decided to highlight a series of
good and inspiring practices from all over Europe.
In this publication, we highlight projects that raise parents’ interest in and understanding of their children’s media activities, that
offer advice on how to introduce children to digital media devices, and that teach parents and children (together) the mechanics of the new media.
These projects allow parents and children to discover media together, empowering parents to question, evaluate and discuss
the use of media within their home. This is crucial because it
is the family that creates a media culture, determining from the
beginning what kind of media the children will get in touch with,
and what importance media and media activities will have in their
everyday lives. How children will use media outside the family
depends on how they have experienced media (usage) within it.
Therefore, media education is more than ever a family affair.
We hope that this magazine helps to, first, show how essential
it is for parents to be actively engaged in their children’s
media literacy education, and second, to stimulate readers
with a selection of good practices to serve as sources of
inspiration for future projects. Supporting parents in their
media education is the responsibility of many actors, such as
policymakers, schools and NGOs, so we hope, too, that many of
them will also be inspired to action in the near future.
More information on issuu.com/evensfoundation/docs/medialiteracymagazine_issuu
CONFERENCE GATHERS MEDIA LITERACY PROFESSIONALS FROM ALL AROUND EUROPE
“Media Meets Literacy… in Warsaw” was, above all, a learning
and networking event, taking place in a pleasant atmosphere. It
was aimed at Media and Information Literacy (MIL) professionals from all over Europe – from policymakers and researchers to academics and, in particular, practitioners.
Organized by the Evens Foundation, it celebrated the Foundation’s work in the Media and Information Literacy (MIL) field over
more than five years. The main objective was to create a festive
event where the participants could meet, exchange, learn
and make plans for future collaboration.
We started on the afternoon of 21 May with a Frontstage day,
which was kicked off with a keynote speech by leading media
education researcher David Buckingham. He critically analyzed
the state of MIL education in Europe today. He then engaged with
the audience in a lively Q&A. During the second half of the afternoon, we presented a dozen 12 min. storytelling presentations;
educators, academics, policymakers, entrepreneurs, etc from
various EU countries talked about the MIL lessons and insights
they wanted to share.
On the second day, our more informal Backstage day featured
innovative ways for participants to engage in networking, interaction and learning. After the plenary morning session, 8 parallel
interactive workshops were hosted by our partners in two series,
in a rotating system.
The conference closed with the official launch and presentation
of a new project by the Evens Foundation and the Modern Poland
Foundation: MIL/PEER – the Media & Information Literacy Platform for Exchanging Educational Resources (see details below).
More information on www.mediameetsliteracy.eu
NEW PLATFORM ANSWERS THREE CRUCIAL MEDIA LITERACY NEEDS
“MIL/PEER – Media & Information Literacy Platform for
Exchanging Educational Resources” is a tool developed by
the Evens Foundation and the Modern Poland Foundation
to prepare, translate and publish educational resources. It
allows organizations to work collaboratively on joint projects. Our
goal is to increase the number and quality of media literacy projects in Europe by encouraging international cooperation
among media literacy organizations and supporting them
in applying for European funds.
Before we started working on MIL/PEER, we consulted a number of European media literacy NGOs. They identified three areas
where support is most needed: fundraising, international co
operation, and tools for sharing educational materials. MIL/PEER
provides an answer to all of them.
MIL/PEER is a free-licensed software and many of the published
materials are available under free licenses, which means you
can use them, and change and publish adapted versions free
of charge. The technology used to create the resources allows
for easy conversion to custom HTML pages, PDF files, e-books,
etc...
The next step of the project is a series of workshops during
which interested organizations will have a chance to work together on application forms and discuss their ideas.
More information on milpeer.eu
DUTCH EU CORRESPONDENT WINS EUROPEAN JOURNALISM PRIZE
Under its Media Program, the Evens Foundation launched in 2013
a biennial Prize for European Journalism. It rewards journalists
whose work contributes to making the European project
more comprehensible and accessible for a broad audience.
The 2015 prizewinner, selected by an international jury, was Marc
Peeperkorn, who has been EU correspondent for De Volkskrant,
the main quality paper in The Netherlands, since 2008. The Evens
Encouragement Award for European Journalism, created for a
talented EU journalist of up to age 35, went to Katarzyna
Zachariasz, a Polish freelancer who mainly writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and Polityka.
The Prize for European Journalism includes an award of €10,000
and the Evens Encouragement Award an award of €5,000.
Both laureates were honored at the Difference Day event on
Sunday, 3 May 2015 in Bozar, Brussels. The Evens Foundation
co-organized this event with the Brussels Platform for Journalism
(a joint initiative of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre de
Bruxelles and Erasmushogeschool Brussel), iMinds and Bozar, on
the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
For us, celebrating freedom of the press and freedom of expression means honoring people and organizations that make a difference in protecting and promoting these values. Freedom of
expression implies respect for the opinions of others. It recognizes the fact that there is a difference between each of us and
the opinions we hold. To celebrate freedom of expression is to
celebrate diversity. Freedom of the press is an essential aspect of
the freedom of expression. Without free and independent communication, it is impossible to build and sustain a democratic
society.
The news media, as “the Fourth Estate”, counterbalance the
legislative, executive and judicial power of the state. Only in a
system where there are solid and transparent checks and balances, can creativity, free research, culture and the arts flourish.
On Tuesday, 3 May 2016, the Foundation is organizing a second
edition of Difference Day.
More information on www.differenceday.com
YOUNG JOURNALISTS FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIVE REPORTING OF HOT ISSUES
For the third time in a row, the Evens Foundation supported
the Annual Congress of the FEJS, an international organization
dedicated to the exchange of information between European
journalism students, young professionals and citizens interested
in the journalism field.
The FEJS attempts to bring such individuals together and promote interaction and networking while providing them with the
educational tools and framework to improve their knowledge
and professional skills. The 2015 edition, held in Athens, Greece,
focused on “Stereotypes, media exclusion and far-right rhetoric
in European media”. More than 100 journalism students and
young professionals from all over Europe gathered to absorb
lectures, interact in lively debates and participate in interactive
workshops.
The topic of the conference was chosen because the organizers
are worried about the direction Europe is going in, and about the
ways European media are covering issues such as immigration,
sexual orientation, poverty, religion, etc, in a context that is more
and more defined by the rise of nationalist and far-right movements in many European countries.
During the conference lectures, debates and workshops, young
journalists explored new narratives to develop more constructive
reporting on the issues mentioned above.
More information on www.fejs.info
WAWALAB MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS REACH OVER 300.000 VIEWERS
WawaLab is an Evens Foundation project aimed at improving
the media skills of Polish young people and promoting new
media and technologies as tools for social change.
In 2015, WawaLab was a meeting: a meeting with the city, its
energy, its people, its space and its history. We invited 30 participants from Warsaw, aged from 12 to 19, to meet once a month
throughout half a year. Each of the meetings had a separate
subject – from history, to the citizens, to urban activists.
The exploration of the topics elicited fresh and personal points
of view about Warsaw, and involved a search for places, stories
and people who try to change their surroundings for the
better, take responsibility and actively shape their space
with the use of new media and new-technology tools (audiovisual, software, apps, etc).
The Foundation invited institutions, organizations and personalities who are models and benchmarks in promoting grassroots
civic thinking about the city to collaborate with us and guide our
participants to take part in civic activities.
Experts from the field of media and new technologies facilitated
the meetings, sharing their skills in using the new media and tools.
The material results included short videos, podcasts, visual materials and video tutorials for young people on how to use new technologies for social change. These were marked on a project map.
Our project manual, addressed to an international audience,
shows how to organize a similar project in the context of a different city. Titled How to make a CITY.LAB, it’s available for free
download.
The project was also popular with the media: the biggest Polish
daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, the main media partner of the project,
posted the multimedia materials that resulted from the workshops
on its Internet platform, reaching over 300,000 viewers.
The WawaLab project is a follow-up to the Evens Foundation’s
successful PragaLab project, which was implemented in 2012
and 2013, and will be continued on a larger scale in selected
Polish towns in 2016/17.
STREET SCHOOL WINS FRENCH GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION
The Evens Foundation aims to support the democratization of the
media while maintaining high-quality newsmaking standards. Since
2012, we have been supporting the Street School for Young Journalists in Paris, helping a new generation of journalists from
diverse social backgrounds to emerge.
Since its inception, more than 60 young people have benefited
from the school’s four-month program of workshops, based on the
principle of “learning by doing” and run by experienced journalists
from major French media.
The School alumni work today at AFP, Le Figaro, RFI, Al Jazeera,
Bloomberg, and Alternatives Economiques – in Paris, Berlin and
Melbourne.
In 2015 the Street School was awarded the national label
Grande Ecole du Numérique (#GEN). This governmental distinction for the best intensive and free digital training will allow the
school to expand its educational offer and deliver certifications and
internship agreements, and benefit from a nationwide promotion
campaign.
TRAINING PRODUCES 75 NEW MEDIACOACHES
For the second time, the Evens Foundation supported the Belgian MediaCoach program, in Flanders, French community and
Brussels.
The MediaCoach program in Belgium focuses on preparing professionals – including teachers, youth workers and librarians who
work with young people – to integrate media literacy into their
work practices. The 10-day training provides participants with a
theoretical framework on different media literacy topics (media
identity and privacy, media production, media and relations, etc).
It also focuses on concrete media literacy activities.
Trainees in the program are challenged and coached to develop
a media literacy project in their work environment and present
that to an external jury for their graduation. This year 75 MediaCoaches graduated from the training.
More information on www.media-coach.be
The project was developed by StreetPress, a young online medium,
with the support of the Open Society Foundations and numerous
media partners. More info on school.streetpress.com
TURN ON SOCIAL CAMPAIGNS ATTRACT WIDESPREAD COVERAGE
In 2015 we concluded a second edition of a highly successful
“Turn On. Youth and Media” project, implemented in cooperation
with the Polish Centre for Citizenship Education.
The latest edition aimed at increasing teachers’ competences,
providing educational material, inspiring action, providing young
people with online space (blogs), and creating social campaigns
in order to help youngsters and teachers become competent
in understanding and creating media.
This edition’s focus was on raising social awareness about
hate speech, manipulation and radicalization in the media.
The project was designed for teachers of history, civics, Polish,
computer science and foreign languages; librarians and guidance
counselors in primary and junior schools, and students in primary,
middle and high school all over Poland.
The results of the project are impressive. A few dozen materials
for pupils and teachers were prepared (lesson scripts, articles,
presentations, infographics, all available on the project website
and licensed on Creative Commons); an online course on Internet social campaigns was taken by 300 teachers and over 500
students from 130 schools from all over Poland; over 90 student
blogs were set up and moderated, and five media actions were
taken: collective works on a specific subject with professional
journalists and media specialists.
The most visible media effect of the project was social campaigns
created together by teachers and students, tackling problems
and issues of major importance to local communities. They were
broadly disseminated by online and offline media, and widely commented on by both media specialists and local activists, having a
big impact on both local communities and a broader audience.
These campaigns also proved that, after the “Turn On” course,
both youngsters and their teachers are capable of creating effective, professional media actions for social change.
ERSILIA PROJECT HONORED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
Together with LE BAL (an independent venue in Paris, dedicated
to the document-image in all its forms), the Evens Foundation
engaged in joint reflection on methodologies of media and image
education and in producing a teacher-training e-tool in image
literacy.
LE BAL has extensive experience in media and image education.
Thousands of students from schools all over France have participated in the workshops of La Fabrique du Regard, the educational
leg of LE BAL. The goal of these workshops is to develop a critical
approach in young people so that they question the conditions in
which images are produced, circulated and assimilated.
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pedagogical programs, methodologies, evaluations, critical texts
and image selections, as well as concrete ideas for projects to
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presented by President Hollande in December 2015 at Le Palais
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EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
Major steps have been taken toward creating a peaceful, democratic and multicultural society in Europe. The Evens Foundation
seeks to contribute to this process by raising people’s awareness of the need for peacebuilding and by collaborating with
those who work to maintain harmony in European society.
The Foundation also seeks to empower citizens and encourage
them to take an active part in shaping the future of Europe. In
the European Citizenship program, the Foundation focuses on
projects linking the local with the European level.
CYCLE OF CONFERENCES TACKLES ALIENATION OF EU CITIZENS
In 2015 the Evens Foundation organized for the first time the Cycle
of Conferences in collaboration with universities and institutions in
various European cities. The central theme was “How to bridge
the gap between European Citizens and European Institutions”.
The project was initiated because of the deep, widespread concern about the growing distance between European citizens,
especially young people, and the European institutions. All four
conferences had their own format but shared one and the same
goal: to hear the views and insights of critical but inspiring
European keynote speakers and to provoke dynamic debate
among the audiences, which included many young people with
passionate ideas about the kind of Europe they want to live in.
The conferences took place in collaboration with the London
School of Economics (London), Johns Hopkins University (Bologna), Villa Decius Association (Krakow) and Bozar (Brussels), and
welcomed almost 4,000 participants from all over the world.
ARTS PRIZE AWARDED TO ARTWAY OF THINKING
The Evens Arts Prize, awarded every two years to a European
artist, supports artistic initiatives that help us rethink contemporary European realities and envision new perspectives for shaping
our common world.
The expert jury decided unanimously to award the Evens Arts
Prize 2015 to Artway of Thinking, a contemporary Italian art
research project originally developed by Stefania Mantovani and
Federica Thiene in 1992.
Artway of Thinking is a non-profit organization for researching
collective creative processes, whereby the artist gets actively
involved in the process of social change, collaborating with various professionals, and applying creative thought, perceptual
sense and talent in order to generate “new beauty”. Artway of
Thinking activated collaborations with administrative authorities,
companies and professionals, worked in Italy and abroad on 38
projects, and has established six workshop models focused on
increasing the capacity to “co-create” new realities.
The prizegiving ceremony was hosted by the European Cultural
Centre in the Palazzo Mora in beautiful Venice; 120 international
guests were welcomed to the palazzo to honor the laureate and
listen to the laudation by the world-famous artist and co-founder
of the Arte Povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto.
WHAT’S YOUR ID? TOOL INSPIRES DEBATE ON EUROPEAN VALUES
“What’s Your ID?” is a platform to meet and reflect on European
values, a space to discuss the importance of what we all share,
our common values. At the same time, the tool builds dialogue
among different nations, cultures, religions or political
options, and links generations by exploring deeply our
identity.
A film, a manual for facilitators and various presentations (accessible via the Evens website) are free to use by all groups wanting
to reflect on the theme of European values.
During 2015 we continued to run workshops and promote this
tool in Belgium, France and Poland. Together with the New Horizons Association in Poland, we presented the project in schools
and organized open debates where seniors and young people
discussed the different approaches to values and shared their
experiences. This all showed that “What’s your ID?” can be an
inspiration, a helpful tool, and a great platform for people to get
to know each other better.
SEVEN CITIES UNITE IN CITY GHETTOS EXPLORATION
With The City Ghettos of Today project, which started in 2014,
we wanted to redefine and reexamine the concept of ‘ghetto’
in the context of today’s closed migrant districts. This European collaboration, involving over 1,500 participants, concluded in
February 2015 with a large-scale installation-performance and a
debate that brought together materials culled from each of the
city workshops.
The project united artists, cultural actors, academics and social
workers to explore the broad themes of ‘ghetto’ and ‘migration
districts’ in participating European cities.
The City Ghettos of Today reflected the Evens Foundation’s interest in creating a peaceful, open and multicultural society in
Europe, and the interdisciplinary dimension of the Strefa WolnoSłowa foundation, which combines academic and theoretical
methodologies with practices of artistic and cultural creation.
Through artistic reflection and intellectual research, this collaborative project sought to unravel the complex and problematical
theme of ‘migrant ghettos’ in contemporary Europe, paying
particular attention to various definitions and visions of ghettos
within the contexts of Warsaw, Paris, Bologna, Milan, Helsinki,
Berlin and Antwerp. The conclusions of the project can be found in
the final publication, available online at www.conflictmatters.eu
LOOKING FORWARD…
The year 2015, indeed, was very fruitful. At a time when we are
threatened by and, in some cases, the victims of hatred, divisivethinking and destructive ideologies, it is rewarding to see the
results of dedicated activities that seek to bring harmony to our
local communities and to Europe overall, to witness the enthusiastic engagement, learning and sharing of participants of all ages
in our projects and events, and to see how well-focused initiatives
can bring huge benefits to thousands of people, whether directly
or indirectly.
Each year, we build on our work of previous years. Now we look
forward to another exciting year in which we will build on, develop and extend the projects and initiatives that we worked on
in 2015.
EVENS FOUNDATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THE TEAM
Corinne Evens, Co-Founder and Honorary President
Yolande Avontroodt
Angélique Berès
Monique Canto-Sperber
Alicja Pacewicz
Jacques Ehelberg
Daniel Kropf
Ernest Van Buynder
Xavier Vidal
Antwerp
The Evens Foundation
Greet De Wilde, General Program Manager
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Tim Verbist, Program Manager, Media www.evensfoundation.be
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Caroline Coosemans, Office Administrator
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Annual Report 2015

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