co. Bürgerhaus Bennohaus, Bennostr.5
48155 Münster
Germany
- Youth and education
Y4M is running and broadcasting an Internet-TV for documentaries, short films and film reports. The network media products are intensively disseminated by Internet-TV worldwide (www.europeanweb.tv) and in Open TV Channels / Community media in Europe.
It is independent from the state and gives access to independent film producers to promote the intercultural dialogue for a wide range of stakeholders from different sectors in an active and innovative way.
At the present time Y4M employs 3 staff members. We cooperate with 5 Trainers / docents for film productions / media trainings based on work and freelance agreements.
Y4M Network is located at civil media centre Bennohaus at Münster (DE). It is a Community Media TV-Station and a media-pedagogical facility which is open for all citizens - especially for children, youngsters and seniors. Cultural meeting point, art gallery, educational institution and a media competence centre - the Bennohaus has a broad sphere, in the local district as well as in an European framework. The educational institution is an accredited advanced training institution. Interested citizens, participants of occupational media qualifications as well as teachers and media pedagogues educate themselves occupationally through seminars or in the frame of qualification kits.
New technologies (Internet, video, audio) are implanted with the youth as tools for intercultural and political education. Our youth-encounter activities are characterized by the involvement of young people in a democratic civil society, facilitating the transparency of democracy on European level. The Youth4Media Network boosts co-determination, participation, communication, media competence of the youth. Education of trainers / young multipliers and the exchange of youth workers and the realization of innovative media pedagogical concepts (www.youth4media.eu). Lobby work and creation of structures for youth work, broadcasting of youth media products via TV-channels and web-TV (www.europeanweb.tv) on EU level.
The network is generating a transfer network for the continuous training courses for young filmmakers and activists of community media. 1750 young media producers are active ( in 24 member NGO´s in 18 EU-countries, 8 NGO´s in East Europe (Belarus, UA, Serbia, Montenegro) and in 5 member NGO´s in AR, GE, IS, JO) and about 250 employees are working in these network NGOs.
Y4M Network has intensive experience in organising media training courses in the framework of EU Youth in Action program (recent contracts: 4.3_2009-11982, 3.1_2009-4773, 4.3_2010-1610). The Network is supported by an operating grant in 2010 and 2011 by EACEA Youth in Action.
Also there are intensive expieriences in the LLL-program. Y4M Network manager, Benedikt Althoff, acted as coordinator and project manager in the projects:.1)2003-2005 / Programm Leonardo da Vinci, 2003-D/03/B/F/PP 146032 „EU-Mediatrainer“. 2)2003-2004 / Europäische Vertretung in BRD, 08/2003-SI2.367426, „Eurolab“ 3)2003-2004 / Programm Youth, 2003-4847/001-001, Participation - Film Projekt „YouthCom“ 4)2005-2007 / Programm Youth, 2005 ERC 10/04 – 18, Network Youth „LYTNET“ Local Youth TV Ne 5)2006-2007 / Active citizenship DG EAC 46/05 2006-0809/001-001SCI1.1NRO, 6) 2005-2007 / SOC / GR 224926-CP-1-2005-1-DE-LINGUA-L2, NEWAP. 7) “Youh in Action TV” 4.5 2008_11284.
Youth4Media Network e. V has an extensive experience in ensuring visibility of projects. We would like to support the ALF Network by posting ALF Infos and projects to our web-TV platforms that have approximately 25.000 viewers per month.
We are cooperating and generating new projects with our partners in Jordan, Palestine, Tunesia and Maroc. These projects will support media participation and democratic process together with arabian NGOs.