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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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The aim of the MEDEA Awards is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics, and animation) in education. The awards also recognise and promote excellence in the production and paedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. In 2012, the organisers offer the following categories:

  • The MEDEA Award for User-Generated Educational Media 2012
    This award honours the best entry submitted by teachers, students, learners, parents, professors, individual, or organisational representatives in primary education, secondary education, higher education, adult education, vocational education, and/or training.
  • The MEDEA Award for Professionally Produced Educational Media 2012
    This award will be awarded to the best professional educational media produced by a professional company or semi-professional production unit such as a broadcaster, professional multimedia producer or publisher, professional web design company, or audiovisual or media department in larger institutions or organisations such as universities, government departments, companies, multinational institutions, and organisations, etc.
  • The Special Prize for European Collaboration in the creation of Educational Media 2012
    This prize recognises excellent educational media productions and projects that come about as a result of European cross-border collaboration and recognises the impact such collaboration can have in increasing understanding and enhancing the European dimension.
  • The Special Prize for Educational Media Encouraging Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012
    This prize will be dedicated to an entry or production that clearly uses (multi)media to encourage active ageing and solidarity between generations. All educational media productions are elligible, no matter in what format - be it website, video, game, or interactive presentation - that illustrate, document, or promote the active ageing and solidarity between generations.
  • The Special MEDEA Jury 2012 Prize
    The judges may, at their discretion, present a special award to an approach or production in recognition of exceptional innovation in paedagogic or technical design.
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MEDEA website, March 5 2010, and email from Nikki Cortoos to The Communication Initiative on April 16 2012.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/03/2009 - 01:33 Permalink

We would like to emphasize that this is worldwide competition of which one of the additional awards focusses on European Collaboration. We welcome participation from all over the world in all educational fields.

Kind regards,
Nikki Cortoos
MEDEA Secretariat