Media Literacy
Our objective: to make our resources available for education and to help the general public develop a better understanding of the media and how information works.
Partnerships
Resources for teachers and pupils
AFP provides teachers and pupils, from primary school to the final year of secondary school, with more than 2,000 educational resources linked to the school curriculum* on its website dedicated to education, available on the Lumni Enseignement platform (the online platform of the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education) and in digital learning environments (ENT).
Accessible content
Different formats are available: articles, multimedia background files, photos, infographics, videos, quizzes and workshops.
The platform can be browsed by subject, theme and school level. It adapts to all screens and includes a wide range of features, including the option for teachers to download all educational content for classroom use.
Each year, around fifty new educational resources are put online, some at the request of the ministry — in particular the office responsible for supporting public digital education policies — and others at the request of regional education authorities or teachers.
*EMC (moral and civic education), EMI (media and information literacy), history, ESD (education for sustainable development), sciences, modern languages, literature and humanities, etc.
As part of its partnership with CLEMI (Centre for Media and Information Literacy Education), AFP takes part in several events.
Press and Media Week in schools
AFP sits on the CLEMI steering committee that selects the theme for its flagship event, Press and Media Week in schools.
For the same event, AFP provides several of its photos each year to illustrate teaching materials and posters, and also makes all its output (newswires, photos, infographics and videos) in six languages (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Arabic) available to registered schools. More than three million pupils, from primary school to the final year of secondary school, and more than 200,000 teachers therefore have access to AFP’s news for several months after the event.
Training for teachers of media classes
AFP regularly hosts media study teachers on its premises for training sessions organised by the coordination department of CLEMI’s media and information literacy group. These sessions aim to explain how a major news organisation produces its content.
Round tables, webinars and academic conferences
AFP takes part in round tables, conferences and webinars organised by CLEMI and the regional education authorities.
National competitions
Access to AFP’s output allows thousands of pupils, from primary school to the final year of secondary school, to take part in national and regional competitions (the “Unes” competition, Mediatiks) organised by CLEMI. Pupils use AFP content to produce a print or digital newspaper front page, a radio news bulletin or a video.
In addition to sitting on competition juries, AFP offers hundreds of prizes each year to winners from across France (photo books, pens and notebooks). Winners also have the opportunity to visit AFP, meet journalists and discover the inner workings of a major global news agency.
AFP is a partner of Entre les lignes, a media and information literacy association.
In November 2016, the association signed a partnership agreement with AFP, the Ministry of National Education and Youth and CLEMI. Le Monde joined the partnership six months later, in May 2017. Since then, the association has gradually opened up to other titles in the Le Monde group (Courrier International, Télérama, La Vie, Le HuffPost), as well as Le Nouvel Obs and Contexte.
Entre les lignes now relies on a network of more than 270 volunteer journalists from these news organisations, including around one hundred from AFP, to run media literacy workshops across France and internationally. Each year, the association carries out several hundred sessions, reaching thousands of young people. Since June 2020, Entre les lignes has held official accreditation from the Ministry of National Education.
Each year, AFP welcomes around fifty groups of pupils and teachers to its headquarters in Paris.
These visits are open to schools from across France, in particular media classes and pupils in the first year of the HGSSP specialism, one of whose modules is devoted to the history of Havas and AFP.
During these visits, pupils and teachers gain a better understanding of the history of the agency and of the work of news agency journalists.
Photo: Jade Azzoug Montané, head of education projects, with pupils from two CM2 classes at République school in Paris, November 2024.
AFP provides broad public access to its archives.
AFP has deposited part of its archives — its institutional collection — with the National Archives (AN).
Created during the French Revolution to preserve the archives of the central government, the National Archives are the largest archives centre in Europe. The expansion of their holdings and collections is planned until at least 2050.
By donating its institutional archives to the National Archives, AFP gives public access to its history (media historians, researchers, doctoral students, etc.).
AFP’s deposits with the National Archives are a major contribution to the history of the media.