MediaTrainer for Europe European Youth4media network association, one of the project partners, holds regular training courses at European level and cooperates with its 32 member organizations in 24 European countries. The network promotes the participation, communication and media skills of young people. Priorities of European cooperation include trainers qualification, exchange of specialists in youth media work, political and intercultural education and the implementation of innovative mediapedagogical concepts. The network has made its task to involve citizens for active media work, to motivate them and guide. They learn to express themselves and to analyse media critically in order to participate in the formation of public opinion with their own contributions. For successful communication the quality of media message plays an important role. Design and communication elements must be brought together in a way that the viewer can absorb and understand well. During the training course participants create media productions to cross-cultural, political or entertainment topics and broadcast them to the public using web-TV (europeanweb.tv and owtv.de). Training courses on European level gives the participants an opportunity to get not only media, but also intercultural and social competences. Participants from different countries work together and learn from each other. National borders are no longer relevant and intercultural communication takes place naturally. In this way, young people develop a common European identity. They obtain extensive informal knowledge in the field of intercultural and civic education. This learning content is not taught, but developed action-oriented. The interests and views of students are perceived and open individual approaches to the learning content. Important is the exchange of meaning and value of learning, the anchor in their own actions and links with other knowledge and applications.
Transparency and recognition Participants of the training course MediaTrainer receive a certificate, which identifies the learning content they have been processed successfully and the skills they acquired. It describes the knowledge, skills and social skills that they obtained during the training. The graduates will make it easier to use the skills learned to profit for the further planning and design of their careers. As a style for the competence of the evidence currently an Europass and the Youth Pass is used. Those tools designed by the European Commission are helpful to prove the competences, skills and abilities in a clear and easily understood form, which is also recognized at the European level. 211