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The latest amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (EU) as of 18.10.2018 envisage that the EU Member States will adopt measures to develop media literacy. In 2018 the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) included media literacy in the education process by introducing a total of 9 classes for the whole period of 12 years. Apart from the insufficient number of classes, yet another major challenge is lack of clarity about the needed skills and how they will be developed at different education levels. The lack of common understanding of media literacy skills has also affected the civil sector. The Media Literacy Coalition (MLC) proposes to develop an index of skills for secondary school students that describes the necessary skills according to age, social requirements and the curriculum. The index will be discussed with all organizations working on media literacy projects and the MES experts to achieve national consensus and a reference framework. Based on this index, a methodology will be proposed to evaluate the students’ skills at this stage of education. The index and the methodology will be proposed by MES but will be mainly used by the members and partners of MLC so that they can better focus their media literacy projects and evaluate their results.