Markéta is an Assistant Professor at the Media Studies Department at the Faculty of Social Sciences (CU) and a Fellow of Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (UK). She received a Ph.D. from Bournemouth University (UK, 2015) and her main research interest is in children’s own perspective on their media experience and learning in diverse environments and contexts. Markéta is a NESET Advisory Expert on Education (EU) and the Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Social Sciences (CU). Her interdisciplinary work has been published in peer-reviewed international journals ranging from Frontier in Psychology, Journal of Children and Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Literacy, Education 3-13, and more. She currently leads a project funded by the Czech Science Foundation and is involved in two Primus projects.

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Christine is associate professor in media and communication studies at Charles University and professor in media education at Salzburg University of Education Stefan Zweig. Her focus of research is on audience studies, media socialisation, media education, media literacy and on international comparative research in the mentioned fields. She has been teaching and researching at University of Vienna, Free University of Bolzano, University of Munster, University of Akureyri, University of Salzburg, Arts University Mozarteum and Danube University. Christine participated in many international research projects (e.g. COST actions DigiLitEY, ELN, Transforming Audiences. Transforming Societies, UNESCO/Translit project Mapping Media Policies on Media and Information Literacy in Europe) and is currently conducting a project on mobile app repertoires as well as a project on digital parent networks.

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Annamária is a researcher and lecturer at Charles University in Prague. Her field of expertise lies at the intersection of media literacy, civic activism and migration. Annamária published widely in journals such as the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Media and Communication and the Journal of Media Literacy Education. She is currently leading an international research team focusing on the digital civic activism of young climate activists in the Czech Republic and Hungary.

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Lucie is researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University in Prague. Her main focus is media literacy and parental mediation. From 2011 to 2014, she worked on various media education projects for schools. In years 2012-2014, she led a research project titled Parents, Children, and Media, which explored parents’ difficulties with parental mediation, and in years 2015-2016, she co-led a national research study mapping media literacy among the Czech population and she was a national expert on European Audiovisual Observatory’s Mapping of Media Literacy project. From 2017 to 2018, she was a collaborator of Czech School Inspectorate in the research examining conditions, process, and results of media education at primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. From 2018 to 2020, she led preschool education part of the project “Supporting digital literacy development” at Faculty of Education, Charles University. Since 2021, she has been leading the group of experts focusing on supporting media literacy in the CEDMO project.

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Lucie is a final year Ph.D. student at Charles University in Prague. Her main research focus is on media literacy education in the context of the political participation of disadvantaged youth. Lucie published in journals such as Learning, Media and Technology, Journal of Media Literacy Education or Media Studies and several book chapters (for instance in Handbook of
Media Education Research, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2020). Lucie is also active journalist and media lecturer.

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Karolína is a Ph.D. student at Charles University in Prague. As a researcher she is focused on media literacy and media education mainly in the Czech context. She is interested in the perspective of teachers and is also keen on digital literacy and the use of digital media in the classroom. So far, she has been involved in several research projects led by senior researchers from the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (IKSŽ), as well as others such as the National Institute of Mental Health. She has presented the results of her research at major international conferences such as IAMCR or ECREA.

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Cyntia is a second-year MA Media student at Charles University in Prague, where she is currently working on her diploma thesis regarding different generations and their use of media. She also works as a media intern at Sanofi in Prague. In the past, she studied at Comenius University in Bratislava, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Editing and Publishing.

Vojtěch is a Ph.D. student at Charles University in Prague. His main research interest is the development of self-reflection in media education and the nature of the media experience itself. He is also researching and testing in practice a long-term, age-adaptive, holistic, student-centred approach to media education. He is also interested in the development of mindfulness in media education and the combination of media and spirituality. He works as a teacher-researcher at Naše Lyceum Praha.