Best General Media Literacy Initiative Award – MLI Awards 2024!

Supported by Coimisiún na Meán, the MLI Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the people and projects that empower individuals and communities with essential media literacy skills.On 21 November 2024, the winners of the 2024 Media Literacy Ireland Awards were announced at an Awards ceremony graciously hosted by Virgin Media, and Webwise is honoured to be acknowledged among such inspiring and impactful media literacy initiatives.

Judges’ comments:

Scoring highly against all the judging criteria, the judges were unanimous in their agreement that Webwise truly demonstrated a ‘best in class’ approach to promoting media literacy.

There was clear evidence of how the project empowered the target audience with impressive results including 37 awareness-raising events, 9,000 teachers trained, 57 articles uploaded onto their website, as well as 43,000 resources disseminated and 2.8 million page views.

Collaboration is central to how Webwise operates, and they work with a wide range of partners, nationally and internationally. 

The judges were very complementary about how young people were involved in all stages of development and really admired how innovation was weaved into every aspect of the project.

The evaluation processes that are in place across the many different elements of this project are very impressive, and were viewed as an excellent example of how evaluation results can be used to further develop projects.