medialepfade.org

Verein für Medienbildung e.V.

We advocate for an open, just, and solidarity-based digital society. Through participatory educational formats, we empower children, adolescents, and multipliers to critically question and shape digital technologies independently. We analyze digital power structures, expose misinformation, and develop innovative concepts for equitable access to media and education. Our work is open, experimental, and practice-oriented – always with the goal of strengthening political maturity and societal participation.

Non-Profit Organization

Founded in 2013

Based in Berlin

20 employees

2 locations in Berlin

Our Vision

Implementation

At the intersection of political media education & net culture education

primary target group:

young people under 27 years.

within the digital lifeworlds of the target group

Strengthening self-determined, experimental use of digital technologies

Expansion & Support
of digital participation processes

Support & Networking of Civil Society Initiatives

Innovative educational approaches and methods for extracurricular, non-formal educational settings

Our Specialization

Our specialization

Media education workshops (target group: from 12 years) and training (for educational professionals)
Focus topics: Online strategies of the new right, antisemitic conspiracy narratives on the internet, antifeminism and queer hostility on social media, Islamist actors on social media, recognizing disinformation and hate speech
- Critical analysis of content and online strategies of anti-democratic actors exploiting the functionalities of social media and algorithmic recommendation systems
- Development of action options and active media production

Prevention of online radicalization

Our Specialization

We are shaping discussions with civil society organizations on the question:
- How can democratic content become more visible on social media?
We support democratic actors in making informed decisions about their platform strategies: – What do we need to know about internet culture and platform logics to be able to act?

Democracy on the platforms !?

Our offer for civil society organizations:

Training, networking, and consulting on:
- Digital culture trends & usage habits
- Aesthetics, formats, and interaction logics
- Platform mechanisms & algorithmic recommendation systems
- Community management & responding to hate speech
- Producing content that promotes democracy
- Opportunities & potentials of alternative platforms

CiviLink

Our Specialization

Making, Coding and Gaming as media education practice

BruchGold (starting soon)

We operate the Media Competence Center Lichtenberg
Linking youth participation and media education
Identifying everyday challenges together with young people – and developing creative solutions using media and technological means

Not only using media but also understanding it (“Behind the screen, behind the tech” – with a technological and power-critical perspective)
Targeted formats for specific target groups and regions:
- e.g. MINTA*-youth
- rural areas in Germany

Our Specialization

tiktokslam creator.festival

Our formats (selection)

Special Event on Media Education
as a Promotion of Democracy

Our formats (selection)

Special Event on Media Education
as a Promotion of Democracy

took place on December 9, 2024
Target group: Artists, Activists, Creators
Focus: Short videos against radicalization and misinformation
Workshops & exchange formats

canvas city

game-based learning methods with AR /Games and AI

available since 2020
Target group: Youth from 14 years
Focus: Augmented reality game on the topics of AI and Smart City
Mobile, geodata-based multiplayer game for critical engagement with digitalization

Our formats (selection)

political education for the program
"Archiv der Flucht"

OER
political education

since 2016, client: House of World Cultures
Target group: Public, educational actors, historically and politically interested
Focus: Flight and migration stories in the 20th and 21st centuries as part of German memory culture
9 educational formats for engaging with the Archive of Flight in the thematic areas of “Flight and Migration,” “Critique of Racism,” and “oral history”

Our formats (selection)

Das Chorlabor

digital cultural media education

created in the course of the project "re:mix" with the German Choir Youth e. V. (2019 - 2023)
Target group: music-interested children & youth
Focus: creating own compositions collaboratively and with the help of digital tools
The game is available in two versions: hybrid for printing and online on the platform topia

Our formats (selection)

bewegtbildung.net

Development of channels for successful political education through web video

since 2015
Target group: Educational actors, YouTubers, media educators, researchers
Focus: Further development of web video as a political educational tool
Network, criteria catalog for web video use, web video series & ePub, interdisciplinary exchange & methodological development for digital political education