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European partnerships
Media Literacy & Education
Engagement & participation
Awareness & Communication
International Cooperation
European Partnerships
Be the change
Main topic: conflict as an opportunity for social transformation.
Role: partner. As part of the pedagogical team, Agareso facilitated a Participatory Media training for conflict management and co-facilitated a laboratory for the collective creation of a MOOC based on the activities of the project.
Erasmus+ KA2, 2018-2021
RecThink
Main topic: empowering youth from rural areas at risk of isolation or depopulation.
Role: coordinator. By using Participatory Video methodology with groups of youngsters in rural areas at a severe risk of isolation and/or depopulation, RecThink facilitated community building activities and civic engagement actions to make visible the invisible.
Erasmus+ KA2, 2015-2016
Trainings & Workshops
Trainings and creative workshops on Participatory Video, Digital Storytelling and Community Media Creation for community leaders, youth workers and volunteers.
Media Literacy & Education
Gen Counterspeech
EpDLab
Educational project that aims to fight hate speech through media production promoting mutual knowledge, empathy and media literacy in teenagers in Galician Secondary Schools. Yearly, we work hand in hand with 3 organisations of civic society focused in protecting Human Rights.
Funded by the Regional Government of Galicia, 2022-2024.
This Laboratory of Education for Global Citizenship is a long-term educational project focused on Media Literacy while building committed active citizenship by using digital media creation and by fostering critical reading and thinking skills. This project has been running in different Secondary Schools in Galicia, together with other stakeholders in the educational field such as the university and teachers’ associations. As other outcomes, toolkits, research papers and methodological guides have been published.
Funded by the Regional Government of Galicia, 2015-2024.
Women’s voices for remembrance
Let’s change the story
Activists for the world we want
Educational project that aims to bring out the stories of women retaliated during the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, framed in several Secondary Schools of Galicia, by using audio as the main tool for collecting information and podcasting, while digitalising testimonies for remembrance and heritage.
Funded by the Ministry of the Presidency of Spain, 2021-2023
Youth & Volunteers training against hate speech, especially focused on the rights of LGTBI people, in coordination with regional associations and universities. Communication materials and specific social media campaigns were created within the activity.
Funded by the Regional Government of Galicia, 2020 – 2023
In partnership with two other Galician associations, this project works with around 500 teenagers every year to promote activism and civic engagement through radio, by combining onsite and online lessons.
Funded by Regional Government of Galicia, 2013-2024.
Citizenship, civic engagement & social participation
The tribe
From us, the Roma women
Participatory media creation project co-leaded with IGAXES, an organisation that provides shelter to youngsters under tuition or at severe risk of social exclusion. Through this process, a group of youngsters created different fiction and non-fiction short-films, while building individual and collective soft skills.
Each edition of the project ended up with an awareness campaign for media built up by the participants.
Funded by La Caixa Foundation, 2019-2023
This Laboratory of Education for Global Citizenship is a long-term educational project focused on Media Literacy while building committed active citizenship by using digital media creation and by fostering critical reading and thinking skills. This project has been running in different Secondary Schools in Galicia, together with other stakeholders in the educational field such as the university and teachers’ associations. As other outcomes, toolkits, research papers and methodological guides have been published.
Funded by the Regional Government of Galicia, 2015-2024.
Awareness & Media Communication
Guarantee of life
Indebted to all women
Guarantee of life (2021) collects testimonies from victims of Dominican Republic legislation on abortion, to support the feminist movement in its struggle to achieve basic rights for women.
Indebted to all Women (2019) gives voice to those women suffering and struggling to change one of the most restrictive laws in the world for sexual & reproductive rights.
If you don’t go, you won’t come back
Women defending Human Rights
If you don’t go, you won’t come back portrays the role migrant women assume in the survival and welfare of their families, on both sides of the migratory flow.
The aim of this collection of books is to raise awareness on Central American Human Rights defenders lives and commitment with justice. Literature helps teenagers to relate to these women and to acknowledge their political fight in one of the most dangerous regions of the world (2021-22)
International Cooperation
República Dominicana
El Salvador
Agareso has also carried out several community media processes in the Dominican Republic, both with local populations and with journalists, aiming to work around housing and community skills to protect women rights and gender equality (2017-2024)
Agareso works in El Salvador with women’s organisations such as La Colectiva Feminista for advocacy of Human Rights and equality, promoting the strengthening of women’s leadership, the creation of social and political advocacy materials, and supporting synergies between the feminist movement in Central America, mainly in the defence of sexual and reproductive rights. We also implemented in El Salvador a capacity building training, working with community TV and radio in the framework of Tourism development based on natural resources and supporting the development of communitarian radios (2017 – 2023)
ABOUT AGARESO (Galician Association of Communication for Social Change)
WHO WE ARE
OUR GOALS
AGARESO (Galician Association of Communication for Social Change) is a non-profit organization, made up of media professionals based in Galicia, who believe in communication as a fundamental right for citizenship, freedom and social justice. Our main objective is to use communication as a tool to achieve Social Transformation, in the fields of International Cooperation, Education for Change and Social Action projects.
Created in May 2008, AGARESO defines itself as a secular non-governmental development organization, politically committed but independent. We are convinced that communication is a powerful tool for social participation, people’s empowerment, Human Rights advocacy and social justice. Its members are committed to the design, production, implementation and dissemination of projects that contribute to the creation of a more critical citizenship in order to fight against global inequality.
- To fight against the structural causes of inequality and to promote social development based on community’s needs, while respecting their cultural identity and gender equality, and by guaranteeing their right to participation throughout the whole process.
- To raise awareness and to develop education activities for democracy, social justice, peace and solidarity at the local level.
- To organize, to train and to support volunteers to achieve these objectives in Global South countries, in Europe and in Spain.
- To promote education and training of media professionals in the research and coverage of information of a social nature, and to broaden their vision in the daily approach to storytelling on these issues, regardless of the media they work in, applying the ethical codes and specific regulations.
- To promote communication as an essential tool in the field of the Third Sector, through training, networking and building synergies.
- To achieve these objectives through a feminist strategy, where gender equality is the fundamental transversal variable in the development of our actions and projects.
WORK AREAS
AGARESO develops interventions in the following areas:
- International Cooperation: projects focused on Communication for Social Change in Global South countries, such as strengthening community radio and TV channels, training community media reporters and professionals and supporting them for political and social advocacy work.
- Education for Social Change and Media Literacy: design and execution of educational projects both in formal and non-formal education fields, by using communication tools to reinforce reflection, critical awareness on global justice topics and, at the same time, to facilitate learning processes aimed to create counter-narratives and self-built storytelling. Meanwhile, we also work in training for teachers and stakeholders in innovative learning strategies and media literacy activities.
- Social Action: AGARESO places special emphasis on working with groups at risk of social exclusion by using communication as a tool to empower themselves, to build their own discourse and to fight for their rights.
- Awareness and Dissemination: through communication campaigns, audiovisual production and the dissemination of the results of our projects, AGARESO intends to influence society by making it aware of the need to fight against social injustice and inequality, while the need to support International Cooperation projects is highlighted.
SKILLS
Staff members of Agareso have a blended experience as trainers, facilitators and communicators. All the team members have been involved in ICT capacity building, media literacy projects and participatory media training, and combine this expertise as facilitators with their own experience as journalists and filmmakers on independent productions and broadcasting media. Skills of the team are:
– Communitary media: radio & TV
– Participatory Video
– Media Literacy Training for youth & adults.
– Media training within social organizations
– Awareness campaigns
– Media Production: documentary, radio, press release.
– Project design and implementation.