For a shared media culture

The Kernel Media Project is an educational and collaborative initiative that aims to strengthen the media, digital and social skills of young people and communities.

 

We offer workshops, training, and tailored educational tools so that everyone can understand the mechanisms of communication, master technology, and express themselves freely through concrete editorial projects.

 

Since 2014, the project has been based on a method born at the Haute École Pédagogique du Canton de Vaud (HEP Vaud): making the creation of newspapers and magazines accessible in the classroom. The prototype of the MagTuner platform, designed to be intuitive and used from the age of 10, was presented at the conference Creativity and Learning: A Tandem to Reinvent? . Since then, more than 15,000 project pages have been created in schools in French-speaking Switzerland, notably during Media Week.

 

Inspired by Célestin Freinet 's approach, the Kernel Media Project's educational project places participants at the center of the editorial process: choosing topics, organizing, layout, and publishing. Students work independently and cooperatively, according to collectively defined criteria. Adults act as publishing houses, guarantors of the framework, but not of the content.

 

The project also aims to create community workspaces—physical or digital—where residents, schools, and associations can co-create collective newspapers. These spaces become places for expression, communication, and civic participation.