INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA SUMMIT
Belgrade, Serbia, 20th to 27th August 2008
SUMMIT DESCRIPTION
Brief History
IRMAS International Youth Media Summit was founded by Ms. Evelyn Seubert from Cleveland High School USA and Ms. Aileen Marshal from South Lanarkshire Council in Scotland. During July 21-30, 2006, the first summit was held in LA presented by ‘Listen Up!’ and ‘Learning for Life’ as well as being mainly funded by IRMAS Charitable Foundation and healthNet.
Nearly 90 people from 26 countries attended the Summit in 2006 and represented diversity in identifying and addressing seven core issues Racism | Violence | Poverty | Environment | Health | Youth Empowerment | Women Empowerment. The outcome was 7 X 1 minute Public Community Announcements filmed and edited by student filmmakers as well as researched and prepared by the student diplomats.
PROGRAM 2008
Cinewest and ICYMAN (Australia), Media Education Centre (Serbia), South Lanarkshire Council (Scotland) and Cleveland High School (USA) will be the main organizers of the Summit in the year 2008.
Youth Media Summit will be held in Belgrade 20th to 27th August 2008.
This program is exclusively designed to provide Skill and Professional Development as well as familiarizing the young participants with codes and standards of Media outlets in Serbia. Also, provide media platform for young adults to express and present the seven significant issues relating to them globally.
Racism | Violence | Poverty | Youth Empowerment | Women Empowerment | Health | Environment
All details about application procedure for the 3rd International Youth Media Summit you can find on the Summit Blog