Lecture presents current trends and experience with boosting media education in Czech Republic as part of close cooperation with libraries and schools. Wikipedia is one of the best tools for developing media literacy.
Session recording available on today’s Youtube stream;
https://www.youtube.com/live/OyyYA4iWkyA?t=2602

We would like to showcase the National Library of the Czech Republic as a strategic partner of Wikimedia CZ and demonstrate how The collaboration of Open can function in practice and what path we have walked together so far. Year ago we signed a Memorandum of cooperation. But there have been many small single yet important steps taken in the previous six years which lead to that official act. These steps were taken by individuals, staff & volunteers on both sides and have blossomed into multifaceted collaborations and resulted into one of the strongest Wikimedians in Residence team.

Promoting Wikimedia and Wikipedia editing among our main target groups in educational programmes has been sometimes more and sometimes less successful. Until we open up to elaborate on a specific area - media literacy.
In that moment our activities and programming became an answer for the diverse set of needs among our partners and participants. And through that channel we found a common language and became an important stakeholder in the field of media literacy education and lifelong learning within the country.
We have the perfect playground available, where we can provide real time experiences on some of the phenomena.