Inforjeunes

Infor Jeunes was established 40 years ago and comprises 15 youth information centres and a series of intermediary centres throughout the French-speaking and German-speaking areas of the country. What is the Infor Jeunes network’s mission? Providing young people with free, freely accessible, unconditional information. Topics covered include entitlement to benefits, student jobs, teaching, new technologies, spending time abroad, housing, etc.

imec

Mediawijs.be is the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Media Literacy, run by the Flemish Government and IMEC vzw.
Mediawijs.be helps the people of Flanders and Brussels to use the media consciously, actively, critically and creatively in order to participate in our society. To that end:
-* Mediawijs.be initiates consultation, networking and cooperation between and with the Flemish media literacy field,

• Mediawijs.be inspires the Flemish media literacy field by providing training, sharing their expertise and developing good practices,
  -* Mediawijs.be promotes safe, responsible media behaviour by citizens through information and campaigns,
• Mediawijs.be monitors the development trends in all the media and in media literacy, -* Mediawijs.be plays an active role in developing media literacy vision and policy in Flanders, Brussels and Europe.

Child Focus

Child Focus, the Foundation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, works 24/7 to counter the disappearance and sexual exploitation of children, both offline and online. Through its preventative work, Child Focus seeks to give young people information and responsibility and to teach them to use the Internet in a responsible way in order to limit the risks and maximize the opportunities. We firmly believe it is equally crucial to raise the awareness of parents, teachers and social workers and to inform them about the advantages and risks of the Web, so that they can promote its positive use to young people while also showing them ways of managing any problems encountered.
On www.clicksafe.be children and young people can find tips and tricks for safe surfing. Parents and professionals will find a lot of information, advice on educating children and educational tools. Child Focus focuses above all on the communication aspects of the Internet: social networks, online friends, privacy, online reputations, sex and the Internet… Child Focus also provides training for parents, teachers, the police and safety organisations, social workers and everyone who comes into contact with children and young people.
Finally, Child Focus also operates a helpline for anyone with a question or problem relating to Internet use by minors. Specialist advisors listen, look for solutions, provide a listening ear or give advice. The helpline can be accessed by phone (116 000), chat (116000.be) or e-mail (clickhelp@childfocus.org).

Center for Cybersecurity Belgium

The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) was created by royal decree. The CCB started operations in August 2015. The tasks assigned to it by royal decree are both ambitious and varied: as a national authority, the CCB is required to supervise and coordinate Belgian policy in this area and also oversee its implementation. In addition, its role will be to manage various cybersecurity projects using an integrated and centralised approach and to act as coordinator between the departments and bodies concerned, the public authorities, the private sector and scientists.The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) was created by royal decree. The CCB started operations in August 2015. The tasks assigned to it by royal decree are both ambitious and varied: as a national authority, the CCB is required to supervise and coordinate Belgian policy in this area and also oversee its implementation. In addition, its role will be to manage various cybersecurity projects using an integrated and centralised approach and to act as coordinator between the departments and bodies concerned, the public authorities, the private sector and scientists.

ACMJ

Action Médias Jeunes is a youth media education organisation whose mission is to encourage young people to develop a reflective and critical attitude to the media. It organizes media education workshops where all the young people at the centre of the project read, analyse and produce media content. Action Médias Jeunes deals with the mass media and also the media that have grown up around the Internet and digital technology, not forgetting the emerging media. Its educational methods are structured around the young people’s habits and knowledge. It encourages everyone to share their experiences and to question them in order to build the learning exercise together. Thinking about their media practices helps to develop young people’s sense of citizenship and engagement with a changing society.

Technofutur TIC

Created on the initiative of the Regional Government of Wallonia in 1998, Technofutur TIC is an approved ‘centre of competence’ based at the Aéropôle de Gosselies business park to the north of Charleroi. 
Centres of competence were conceived as centres for training, monitoring and awareness-raising, as part of a development process, to meet the needs expressed by businesses, workers, job seekers, education and sector partners.

The drive that began in the late nineties was aimed at creating ‘new generation’ training centres:
focused on quality and creativity;
accessible to all – from a company boss to a final-year school student – and upholding equal opportunities;
seeking partnerships between the public and private sectors in order to integrate all the needs of the socioeconomic players;
established in areas with high development potential so as to be consistent with Wallonia’s economic development.
http://www.technofuturtic.be/TechnofuturTIC/Quisommesnous.aspx

Unia

Unia is an independent public service whose mission is combat discrimination and promote equal opportunities. We perform our role in a spirit of dialogue, cooperation and respect. Have a look at what Unia does via the video: youtube.

Privacy Commissie

"I decide" is an initiative by the Privacy Commission aimed at raising the awareness of children and teenagers and giving them information about the best way of using their own and other people’s personal data.
For more information visit www.jedecide.be.

Média Animation

Média Animation is an association which operates in the field of media education and organisational communication. Its aim is to develop responsible citizenship through critical education for citizens in dealing with a media communication society. As a resource centre and a member of the Higher Council for Media Education of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation,

• it is tasked with developing media education in the education sector
• it is recognized as an adult lifelong learning association
• it works on European projects with a number of partners in other countries

Média Animation is also a media agency for the non-commercial sector, providing web, graphic, sound and video services and skills. Through its professional media services it actively supports the organisational, social educational and cultural initiatives, projects and institutions of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Department of Education and Training of the Flemish Government

The Flemish Government Ministry of Education and Training (Department of Education and Training) supports the minister via a wide range of activities and policy directions.

One of the Ministry of Education’s specific missions is to promote a policy of integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into schools.

E‑safety is thus an explicit part of the aims pursued since 2007. This gives schools a framework for working towards safe use of ICT.

The Ministry of Education has introduced the e‑Safety label to help educational institutions implement this aim.

Schools are thus not isolated with regard to safe use of ICT.

Cooperative links have been established with industry, science and civil organisations like KlasCement, de Gezinsbond (League of Families), Child Focus and Kenniscentrum Mediawijsheid.

Through such partnerships the Ministry of Education plans to promote awareness-raising and information campaigns and to develop tools for school use and specific training initiatives like MediaCoach.

CSEM

The Higher Council for Media Literacy is a media education body set up by Wallonia-Brussels Federation parliamentary decree in 2008.
Its main missions are to promote media literacy and foster an exchange of information and cooperation between all the players and organisations involved in media literacy. Be it teaching, young people, continuing education, research or administrative bodies, the Council brings them together and coordinates a lifelong media education policy.
This involves encouraging and linking up initiatives, activities, experiences, educational tools, research, etc., with the aim of promoting media literacy.
Today, the CSEM has 100 full members or deputy members from sectors as varied as formal and non-formal education, the media, universities and colleges, journalism, politics, the unions, parents’ associations, youth centres, etc. This represents an unprecedented wealth enabling targeted initiatives to be designed with a clear desire to foster the development of critical thinking and distance from media products, whether as a reader, producer or user of media.
The CSEM carries out a number of activities. Each year it issues a call for school projects on a given topic that promotes the development of media literacy in primary and secondary classes. The CSEM also coordinates various schemes subsidised by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in partnership with the public and private sectors, such as ‘Journalists in the Classroom’, ‘Opening up my Everyday Life’ and ‘Widescreen on the Blackboard’, with the support of its three media literacy resource centres, the Liège Audiovisual Centre, the Wallonia Brussels Federation Self-study Centre and Média Animation asbl.
These centres of expertise also assist with the production of tools for a variety of school and non-school educational target audiences: the educational sectors dealing with written press, cinema and network media literacy, critical education with regard to advertising, etc. In 2015, the CSEM defined media education competences and illustrated those competences with concrete examples enabling implementation in and out of school.
Finally, the CSEM is actively involved in European and international projects relating to media education. In 2010 the Council held a two-day conference resulting in the drafting of the Brussels Declaration, which contains a number of recommendations for action to promote and improve the standard of media literacy in Belgium and the other member countries. From this perspective the CSEM naturally has a part to play in the development of the B-BICO Consortium.
Lastly, the Higher Council is also actively involved in combating withdrawal by developing initiatives aimed at promoting citizenship and getting along together. It also works actively to fight harassment, specifically cyberbullying.
For more information feel free to visit the CSEM website: http://www.csem.be
Boulevard Léopold II, 44 – B-1080 Brussels