The Meeting is co-organized with the Municipality of Pyrgos and the Directorates of Primary and Secondary Education of Ilia, with the support of EKOMED.
Saturday, 29 November 2025: Workshops for Educators
10:00-13:00 “Talking with Primary School Students about Audiovisual Literacy”, Kostas Voros, Educator / Researcher
This workshop is addressed to primary school teachers and focuses on the key concepts, pedagogical practices, and possibilities for integrating Audiovisual Literacy into the school curriculum. Through experiential exercises and examples drawn from the Skills Labs, participants will explore ways of engaging children in discussions on issues such as their everyday contact with media, online bullying, misinformation, mobile phone use, artificial intelligence, and video games — maintaining a balance between critical analysis and creative expression.
Dr Kostas Voros is a primary-school teacher who has taught across all levels of education — from early years to higher education — mainly in the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked for 20 years. He graduated from the University of Crete (Department of Primary Education) and holds an M.Ed. in Education and the Mass Media (University of Manchester) and a PhD in Media Education (Institute of Education – University College London). He has conducted research and published articles on Media Education and Audiovisual Literacy, and has presented his work at numerous conferences and seminars.
14:00-17:00 “Sexuality Education and LGBTQ+ Issues Go to the Movies at School” Mary Chioni, Sexuality and LGBTQ+ Education Trainer / Author
Using as starting points (a) film screenings at school, (b) current public discourse highlighting issues such as sexuality, gender-based violence, bullying (both physical and online), pornography, sexual diversity, hate speech and abusive language, (c) the fact that students are either viewers or (co-)creators of various kinds of school films, and (d) the reality that the school environment functions as a system comprising four groups (students, teachers, parents/caregivers, and school staff) with its own rules and dynamics, the workshop — through experiential methods and group-process techniques — will offer strategies for developing skills to manage situations that may arise when films addressing themes of Sexuality Education and/or LGBTQ+ issues are screened or produced within the school community.
Mary Chioni is a trainer in sexuality and LGBTQ+ education with many years of experience in public education. She has served as Head of Health Education at the Directorate of Secondary Education of Athens A and was a member of the scientific team of the Institute of Educational Policy (IEP) for the Skills Labs. A graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Faculty of Philosophy, M.A. in Health Promotion & Education), she has also trained at the Athenian Centre for the Study of Man (AKMA) in systemic thinking, therapy, and group process. She has authored educational materials and book chapters on comprehensive sexuality education and has trained students, teachers, parents, health professionals, and the wider public. She collaborates scientifically with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) and Orlando LGBT+ – Mental Health Without Stigma.
Sunday, 30 November 2025: Roundtables & Best Practices Presentations
10:00-11:30: Roundtable: Building Policies for Film Education in Europe – Key Issues, Priorities and Gaps
A discussion on children’s voices, research, methodologies, and the aims of current European policies for film and audiovisual education.
Participants: Radka Hoffman (Kruton, Czech Republic), Viola Gabrielli (Young Horizons, Poland), Eirini Andriopoulou (Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center-Creative Greece) Moderator: Pantelis Panteloglou
The discussion will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Greek.
11:40-12:00 International Good Practices: The FILMED Project, Karolina Śmigiel (Wajda Film Centre, Poland)
Film education is absent from the school curriculum in many European countries. The goal of FilmED is to develop practical teaching material that can bridge this gap and enable educators, cultural institutions, and educational organizations to work with film education. Through this initiative, we aim to reach thousands of students across Central and Southeastern Europe, helping them to expand their knowledge of European cinema. Above all, we seek to give young people a deeper understanding of social and political contexts and to promote cultural exchange and European values
The presentation will be given in English with simultaneous interpretation into Greek.
12:15-13:45 Roundtable: Drops in the Ocean – Towards an Ecology of Attention in Education
A discussion on the challenges of engaging children within the educational environment, the structural characteristics of today’s digital landscape, and ways of overcoming these challenges.
Participants: Ioulia Mermiga (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greek Film Archive), Christos Skyllakos (film critic, Vice President of PEKK), Ioanna Giakoumatou (educator in audiovisual arts) Moderator: Pantelis Panteloglou
15:15-16:15 Film Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: “Film Pedagogy – 15 Years of Educational Programmes in Formal Education”Sokratis Mousmoulidis, Magdalini Nenou, and students of the AUTh Film Department
PRESENTATIONS OF GOOD PRACTICES FROM FRONTLINE EDUCATORS
16:20-16:40 Animation Workshops in the Schools of Ilia, Konstantinos Meramveliotakis (Visual Arts Educator in Primary Education)
16:45-17:05 “The Village Through the Eyes of Children” – Creating a School Documentary in a Four-Class Primary School Elpida Kokkinogeni (Substitute Kindergarten Teacher – Special Educator)
17:10-17:30 CINEmatheia Film Club and the Tripoli Student Film Festival, Δήμητρα Γιανναρά (Φιλόλογος, υπεύθυνη καθηγήτρια ομίλου CINEμάθειας), Ελένη Σπυροπούλου (Μουσικός, Διευθύντρια 2ου Προτύπου Γυμνασίου Τρίπολης), Ηλέκτρα Δουκουμοπούλου (Μαθήτρια Γ Γυμνασίου), Ιωάννα Ξυνού (Μαθήτρια Β Γυμνασίου)
17:35-17:55 “Platonos & Filaretou Corner – The Refugees’ Football Field” - Creating a Student Documentary through Freinet PedagogyVicky Spita (Philologist, Member of the Educational Group “Skasiarcheio”)
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