The project "Living in Latvia – Learning Latvian (3rd stage)" is a continuation of the projects of the previous years of the Education Development Center in the field of integration, and its goal is to ensure the acquisition of the Latvian language by third-country nationals and persons who are legally detained in the territory of Latvia, for the needs of education and the labor market.

Within 21 months of the project, the Education Development Center will offer 120 hours of intensive courses on mastering the Latvian language at various language levels for a total of 400 third-country nationals in 35 groups, working both in person and remotely.

Education Development center (EDC) has been implementing the project Media literacy for schools from August 2019 to May 2020. The project is financially supported by US Embassy.

The aim of the project is to strengthen democratic values in the society of Latvia educating teachers for integrating the media literacy in their teaching and educational work and promoting the young people’s media literacy.

Erasmus+ (Key Action 2/Adult Education) under the project number: 2019-1-DE02-KA204-006421. 

Partner Organizations:

• Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten AdB e.V., Germany(Coordinator)
• Education Development Center, Latvia
• Rede Inducar, CRL, Portugal
• Partners Bulgaria Foundation, Bulgaria
• Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Belgium
• CENTRO PER LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE, Italy
• JAAN TONISSONI INSITUUT MTU, Estonia

About project 

All brochures are available on the project website. 

Through creating media literacy program for public schools and providing training of educators

The project is funded by the US Embassy
Project summary
Nowadays the impact of media has increased, especially on young adults. Media have become the space of the value clash and the tool of influencing the society. The inability to use adequately the media in the complicated geopolitical situation of Latvia can have especially far-reaching negative consequences. Media literacy (ML) in the schools of Latvia up to now has been acquired insufficiently and episodically. This can be explained with the lack of ML programs and course materials, insufficiently trained teachers in the issues of ML and the lack of awareness about how to integrate the media literacy content in the current curriculum.

ERASMUS + STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP project

Partner organizations:

National Centre for Education Republic of Latvia (Coordinator) www.visc.gov.lv,

Education Development Center (Latvia)
University of Iceland (HASKOLI ISLANDS) www.hi.is,
MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION (Ireland) www.mie.ie,
European Education & Learning Institute (Greece)  www.eeli.edu.gr,
MINISTERIO DA EDUCACAO E CIENCIA (DGAE) (Portugal)  www.portugal.gov.pt

Aim: to explore the experience and best practice of partner countries in supporting activeengagement of learners (both students and teachers) in planning, implementation and evaluation of the learning process at school and beyond in order for them to become co-creators of their own learning within collaborative learning process.