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. Austria
Zeitung in Schulte (ZiS) organizes a range of newspaper projects, provides teaching materials for various subjects, offers games on how to read and understand newspapers on its website, creates competitions for pupils and runs various teacher training programs through the ZiS-Academy. The NIE program began in 1995 and now involves an estimated 70 daily, weekly and monthly national and regional newspapers. More
. Belgium
ABEJ, the Belgian Newspaper Association, began its NIE project in 1993 as a single bilingual programme, though it is now split according to language. The programme, called "La Presse à l’école," was developed with the help of the Conseil pour l'Education Media (Council for Media Education), which regroups teachers and politicians and trains teachers to have a critical view of media. The programme's target is children aged 12-18 years old.
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The Finnish Newspapers Association's present role in Newspaper in Education activities in Finland is that of coordinating measures by member papers. For this purpose, the Association is supporting its members by producing material for their work with schools. The target groups are students at all levels of education, ranging from day nurseries to universities. The NIE work, which began in Finland in 1964, is bilingual (Finnish, Swedish). More
. France
Created in 1977, ARPEJ groups together the regional press in France with the common objective of promoting the use of media in schools. The group is made up of correspondents from each major regional daily newspaper. ARPEJ also collaborates with CLEMI, an arm of the Ministry of Education which acts as a liaison between schools and the media. Each year, CLEMI organizes a national Press Week which exposes students to the media. The 2005 event is set to take place on 14 to 19 March. More
The German Newspaper Publishers Association (BDZV) started NIE together with IZOP-institute in 1979 in Aachen but has since then installed no program of its own. Either the German papers invent their individual agenda or they make use of one of the freelancing NIE-agencies in Germany (like IZOP, PROMEDIA, ZEUS, etc). Programs spread from third-graders in primary school to teenagers at secondary school and even students at the university level.
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. Greece
Greece's Chaniotika Nea newspaper was awarded a 2004 Jury Commendation in WAN's World Young Reader Prize competition.
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The educational project Repubblic@scuola, created by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in cooperation with Kataweb, the Internet company of Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, was launched in 2000 with the aim of bringing the world of news nearer to students, contributing to promote their reading habits and developing their critical capacities. More
Press at School is a programme initiated by Luxembourg's newspapers. Journalists from all types of media meet school classes and try to explain the various aspects of newspaper reading and understanding. More
. Macedonia
In March 2003, the Association of Printed Media of Macedonia gathered publishers, teachers and education ministry personnel for an intensive workshop, planting the seed for structuring an association-based “Newspapers in Education” programme.
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. Netherlands
Krant in de Klas, the educational organization of all Dutch newspapers, aims to acquaint young readers with newspapers through education. Teachers of elementary and secondary schools obtain free newspapers of their choice for use in class discussions about the different ways the newspapers report various topics. The group also organizes an annual competition for the best Newspaper Photo of the year where a jury of children aged 10 to 12 selects their favorite out of four different categories.
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. Norway
Newspapers in Education began in Norway in 1970-1971. All of the country's schools and an estimated 160 newspapers are involved in the program which provides materials to students and includes a teacher training program. More
. Romania
The Romanian Press Club has started two NIE projects in secondary schools, targeting students ages 14 to 18. One project will help civic education teachers make better use of public information as presented in newspapers. The other project, though not fully defined, is likely to be similar. Other main actvities include free newspaper distribution.
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. Russia
The Regional Press Association was part of a consortium that won a USAID grant for print media development for the next four years. Their portion of the program includes conducting four NIE seminars in Russian regions.
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The NIE programme at the Belfast Telegraph includes literacy programmes, which range from 6-week projects to schools making their own newspaper in one day. The NIE coordinator also works on one-off supplements for young people and is involved in school-based promotions. More than 600 schools are involved in the project which really took off in the current format in 1998. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 newspapers are distributed to schools each year.
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