[spectre] AGORA 2002 ON CHILDREN MEDIA LITERACY

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AGORA 2002
Athens, Greece  15-18  June

The Annual Regional Mediterranean Summit

opportunities for  investements and synergies
contact  management@ectc.gr
Preliminary program  at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/

In  the heart of the Mediterranean basin AGORA becomes from this year an
Annual  Mediterranean Summit and attracts children's media professionals,
policy  makers and researchers in order to create  a strong network  of
synergies, co productions and common projects.
In the peak of its  activities and maturity AGORA 2002 is the  annual meeting
point of the  Mediterranean children's audiovisual world with worldknown
professionals  aiming to enhance  the region's political and industrial
influence in  the global landscape.


The Strategy Tower
Core nucleus of AGORA is  the Mediterranean Observatory, a common event and
planning centre with  worldknown personalities from  audiovisual policy
makers to main  broadcasters and producers. The Observatory monitors, reviews
and evaluates  the production, promotion, research and training of children's
audiovisual  activities of the region.It is an on going living organism which
can provide  update information for the regions ctivities in children's media
and to  create synergies and projects with transnational and global impact.
The first  working day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the  Mediterranean
Observatory.

Children's Fantasy first
AGORA cares  mostly about children. Being conscious on the impact of
audiovisual media on  children's upbringing AGORA proposes the Media Summer
School Project.
MSS  is children's creativity pool. The  young talent meets top  professionals
of children's media and finds the language  and technology  to express, to
create and to succeed.
In the Giffoni Multimedia Valley,  Italy, an environment of of learning,
experimenting and playing the children  meet the creators of their heros and
discover ways  to use the  audiovisual language for their own creations and
constructions.
The third  day of AGORA 2002 is dedicated to the Media Summer School Project
which will  launch operations in 2004.

New Technologies in Media Literacy - I believe  to know is to interact
This part-conference, part-hands-on-lab, to be held  the third day of AGORA
2002, will bring together electronic media producers  and e-content
programmers, researchers, digital artists, media tutors, media  education
designers, psychologists and children; anyone who is involved in  the making
of the future trends in media youth training and  literacy.

Citius, Altius, Fortius
2004, Olympics return to their  birthplace. Within the Olympic spirit of
competition aiming to global synergy  The World Sports Expo will present
audiovisual works made for children and by  children targeting in sports as a
social and cultural language.
It will  offer behaviour examples showing youth's participation in sports
worldwide  and illustarting the ways media creations influnce the youngsters'
s sport  counscience.
The fourth of AGORA 2002 focuses in the World Sports Expo for  Youth which
will be launched in 2004 in Greece for a period of 4  months.

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POSTER SESSIONS
WORKSHOPS
NETWORKS OF COLLABORATION  MEETINGS
SCREENINGS
CLOSED MEETINGS
FESTIVAL  TRIBUTES

opportunities for investements and synergies
contact  management@ectc.gr
Preliminary program  at http://www.3rd-ws.org/agora2002/