MLA4MedLit 2026: Whose Literacy? Whose Rights? Interrogating Digital and Media Literacy for Everyone
MLA4MedLit conference is our annual online conference dedicated to exploring emerging priorities in digital and media literacy.
- Online
The Media & Learning Association organises two conferences: our annual onsite conference in Leuven, Belgium, and MLA4MedLit, our online conference dedicated to digital and media literacy. All editions, upcoming and past, are listed below.
Media & Learning 2027
From innovation to educational impact. 16–17 June 2027 in Leuven, Belgium. Call for proposals open until 18 December 2026.
Leuven, Belgium
- In person
Media & Learning 2026: Co-creating the future of learning
The annual Media & Learning conference brought over 400 educators, media professionals and researchers to Leuven on 17-18 June 2026 to explore how media can support, enrich and transform learning.
Leuven, Belgium
- In person
Pre-conference workshop: AI practices and policies – exploring the journey thus far
Location: 01.22 – Collaborative space – hybrid classroom, Joris Helleputte building (124-03)Minderbroedersstraat 8 , 3000 Leuven This pre-conference workshop explores how higher education can prepare graduates for future professions and integrate AI to enhance teaching…
MLA4MedLit online conference
- Online
Media & Learning 2025: Educational media that works
More and more the question posed to all members of the Media & Learning community is whether the media supported resources and learning opportunities that they create really make a difference when it comes to…
Media Literacy Matters, Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
- In person
Media Literacy Matters, Brussels, 27 Feb – 1 March 2024
During Belgium’s EU presidency, Media Literacy Matters brought the many aspects of digital and media literacy into the European spotlight. This European digital and media literacy conference took place from February 27th to March 1st,…
MLA4MedLit: Standards and Best Practices in Media Literacy in Europe
This online event is being organised by the EDMO Working Group on Media Literacy Standards and Best Practices. The aim of this group is to create a set of standards and best practices that can…
Media & Learning 2023: 20-21 June in Leuven, Belgium
The Media & Learning Association’s 10th annual conference took place on 20-21 June 2023 in Leuven, Belgium . We celebrated our anniversary by learning from one another, getting inspired and changing the way people think…
MLA4MedLit Conference: Teacher Education in Digital and Media Literacy
Teachers play a hugely important role in empowering young citizens to tackle disinformation by promoting digital, media and information literacy in their classrooms. This one day online conference aims to bring together those concerned with…
Media & Learning 2022 – 2-3 June in Leuven, Belgium
University of the Future – Mediated, Pixelated, Hybrid or Virtual? Events over the past 2 years have accelerated a process that had already begun – to re-think the structure, purpose and operation of universities and…
Media & Learning Online: Autumn 2021
Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education This one day Media & Learning Online Conference will take place on Thursday 18 November and is aimed at everyone interested in enhancing teaching and learning in…
Media & Learning Online: Spring 2021
Managing and innovating video-based services in Higher Education This one day Media & Learning Online Conference will take place on Thursday 6 May and is aimed at everyone interested in enhancing teaching and learning in…
Media & Learning Online: Autumn 2020
The topic for Media & Learning Online on 18 November was Scaling up video-based services in Higher Education and was a direct continuation of the conversation which took place in June. Now that so many…
Media & Learning Online: Spring 2020
This two day online conference on scaling up and providing access to video based services in higher education featured talks and discussions drawing in part on the experiences of universities all over the world in…
Media & Learning 2019
Media & Learning 2019: Video in Higher Education took place on 5-6 June 2019 and was all about highlighting the latest pedagogical and technical developments in this field and we had put together a programme…
Media & Learning 2018
Media & Learning 2018: Video in Higher Education that took place on 14-15 June 2018 was all about highlighting the latest pedagogical and technical developments in this field and we had put together a programme…
Media & Learning 2016
Media & Learning 2016: Enriching learning through media education and media literacy took place on 10-11 March 2016 in Brussels . The objective of the conference was to first of all highlight the value and…
Media & Learning 2014
Media & Learning 2014: From passive to active use of media in teaching and learning took place on 20-21 November, 2014, in Brussels. Digital and media literacy at all levels of education implies not only…
Media & Learning 2013
Media & Learning 2013: Equipping Learners for Open, Creative Learning Futures took place on 12-13 December 2013 in Brussels. It pointed to the responsibility that all of us share to explore new and innovative ways…
Media & Learning 2012
Media & Learning 2012: Media as an Agent of Change in Education and Training took place on 14-15 November in Brussels. This conference had three main themes: mapping future trends and developments in media- enhanced…
Media & Learning 2011
Media & Learning 2011: Harnessing the Power of Media to support Learning took place on 24-25 November 2011 in Brussels. The conference had at its core the idea of harnessing the power of media to…
Media & Learning 2010
Media & Learning 2010: Developing, Recognising and Embedding Media in Education and Training: Towards the Era of Digital Fluency took place on 25-26 November 2010 in Brussels. This conference was all about what policy-makers and…