Media Literacy for Sustainable Society Medialukutaidolla kohti kestävää yhteiskuntaa This project is a continuation phase for the project Civic Skills via Media Education in Palestine funded by the MFA in 20152016. It offered media education workshops for non-governmental workers professional journalists and municipality workers. The conti
nuation project extend media literacy education to citizens. Project aims to empower young adults in Palestine to actively constructively and peacefully participate in building the society and democracy. Media the Fourth Estate of any functioning democracy
 ideally provides the citizens sufficient timely and accurate news information and versatile views for the citizens to make informed decisions in both the private and public spheres of their lives. As such properly functioning independent media builds demo
cracy and sustainable society.Project is implemented by creating curriculum for media literacy education training Palestinian media students and professionals and teachers to act media literacy trainers organizing media literacy courses in different parts 
of Palestine and creating open-access learning material in Arabic and English. The target groups are unprivileged Palestinian young adults people living at the refugee camps C-areas and Gaza. The project targets especially people living in these areas sinc
e they have less opportunities for education and are more easily influenced by extreme group lobbying. The project focuses in targeting women because they are a marginalized group in Palestine facing more unemployment and discrimination. Courses offers tra
ining in media literacy media ethics and media production skills and offering local young adults work opportunities and international contacts. As it strengthens the target groups media literacy skills the project also prevents radicalization and violent e
xtremism. The project personnel the trainers and course participants will produce journalistic content to be published in media channels in Finland Palestine or internationally as well as in social media. This will help to create a more balanced and fact-b
ased views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for media audiences. This project is a continuation phase for the project ?Civic Skills via Media Education in Palestine? funded by the MFA in 2015?2016. It offered media education workshops for non-governmental workers professional journalists and municipality workers. The co
ntinuation project extend media literacy education to citizens. Project aims to empower young adults in Palestine to actively constructively and peacefully participate in building the society and democracy. Media the Fourth Estate of any functioning democr
acy ideally provides the citizens sufficient timely and accurate news information and versatile views for the citizens to make informed decisions in both the private and public spheres of their lives. As such properly functioning independent media builds d
emocracy and sustainable society.Project is implemented by creating curriculum for media literacy education training Palestinian media students and professionals and teachers to act media literacy trainers organizing media literacy courses in different par
ts of Palestine and creating open-access learning material in Arabic and English. The target groups are unprivileged Palestinian young adults people living at the refugee camps C-areas and Gaza. The project targets especially people living in these areas s
ince they have less opportunities for education and are more easily influenced by extreme group lobbying. The project focuses in targeting women because they are a marginalized group in Palestine facing more unemployment and discrimination. Courses offers 
training in media literacy media ethics and media production skills and offering local young adults work opportunities and international contacts. As it strengthens the target groups? media literacy skills the project also prevents radicalization and viole
nt extremism. The project personnel the trainers and course participants will produce journalistic content to be published in media channels in Finland Palestine or internationally as well as in social media. This will help to create a more balanced and fa
ct-based views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for media audiences.