Caucasus School of Media hosted the closing conference for “Integrating European Models of Media Literacy into Georgian Academia,” a three-year Jean Monnet Module.
Giorgi Jologua, the project coordinator and an Associate Professor at Caucasus School of Media, explained that the project sought to bring Georgia’s formal education system closer to European standards and integrate media literacy into the curriculum, drawing on European teaching practices.
Lenka Vitkova, a representative of the Delegation of the European Union to Georgia, attended the conference and underscored the importance of media literacy.
“Media literacy is essential to informed citizenship, critical thinking, and informed decision-making. Today’s information landscape presents a wide range of threats, from AI-generated material that blurs the line between reality and fiction to deliberate disinformation and manipulated content,” she said.
Over its three years, the project achieved the following:
- 314 teachers from 74 schools across Georgia were trained to integrate media literacy into their teaching in line with European standards.
- 161 pupils from 12 schools participated in the summer school “The European Union Against Disinformation.”
- Media literacy became a compulsory course in Caucasus University’s teacher preparation programs and an elective in several other programs. A total of 108 students across five groups completed the course through the project.
- Research was conducted to determine which European model of media literacy could be most effectively adopted in Georgian education.
The project was funded by the European Union.
