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This year's first event of the European Film Forum 2019 took place during the Berlinale. With Creative Europe MEDIA and Horizon 2020 supporting a number of subtitling projects, the debate focused on how to use technology to make European films travel across Europe and beyond by discussing the possibilities that exist for subtitling and dubbing.

From social media to fact-checking, from radio to media convergence, or from immersive content to accessibility, the underlying themes of the research and innovation projects presented here show the ambition to foster scientific progress across disciplines to match an ever-changing media landscape.

VI-SEEM, an EU-funded project, creates the necessary infrastructure and user training to enable local scientific communities to conduct groundbreaking cross-border research spanning many areas.

The European Commission published the first reports submitted by signatories of the Code of Practice against disinformation signed in October 2018. While the Commission welcomes the progress made, it also calls on signatories to intensify their efforts in the run up to the 2019 EU elections.

Online platforms have submitted a first implementation report setting out the state of play of the measures taken by each of them to comply with their commitments under the Code of Practice on Disinformation. The Commission welcomes these actions but calls on online platforms to intensify their efforts in the run up to the 2019 European elections.

The STARTS programme launches local initiatives in schools to have artists and IT experts jointly teach digital skills.

The call aims at fostering the development of new educational materials and/or services built on concrete instances of disinformation, as well as to design methods to raise awareness about the techniques commonly used by malicious actors in order to create, distribute and amplify disinformation over the internet.


Tools and activities proposed should directly or indirectly benefit the target group of citizens of all ages lacking media literacy skills and in particular the skills needed to critically evaluate content accessed via social media.