Promoted by Fondazione Campania dei Festival, Mix Your Media School is a new project about image education and new media, whose proposal has been selected among the most innovative ventures of experimental nature in the audiovisual teaching field this year. The goal is to show students how to access open digital libraries and tools to create cross-media contents, especially thanks to the Open Educational Resources provided for free by the Italian Chapter of Creative Commons, listed among the project’s partners.

Among his objectives, Mix Your Media School aims to enhance students’ creativity and learning by opening their minds to the possibilities given by new technologies in the cultural field, thanks to the creation of original storytelling projects and the training on the basics of copyright and intellectual law. Moreover, thanks to an informed use of open web tools and softwares, student will have a chance to take part in a debate about intellectual property and the fruition of cultural heritage through new devices such as social networks and streaming platforms.

The training laboratory, which has both a theoretical and practical section, began on the 18^th of October 2023 and will end halfway through December 2023. Finally, students’ works will be presented during the closing day of the project and later released on the main web and social pages.

Involved partners are:

• Creative Commons’ Italian Chapter, which promotes the implementation of licences on the national territory and has been working for years in the copyright field in connection with open access policies in all their facets (open education, open science, open culture, open GLAM). Referees will be: Deborah De Angelis; Laura Sinigaglia.
• Film Commission Regione Campania, which will employ audiovisual professionals with expertise in the research of digital archives and analogue source material; cross media storytelling; editing and post-production. Referees will be: Rosachiara Ferrillo; Valentina Illiano; Luca Ciriello; Eugenio Pisani; Rosa Maietta.
• Associazione Riferimento Scuola, in cooperation with the Fondazione Campania dei Festival, will oversee the dissemination, publicity and tracking of the activities throughout the entire duration of the project. Referees will be: Monica Cacciatore; Ersilia D’Angelo; Gabriella Russo; Marina Petrucci; Rosaria Mancini; Guglielmo Sellitto.
• ANEC Association, which will make cinemas available to broadcast the works’ screenings on the final day of the project.