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What the fake ? Make the news great again ! A seminar for youth awareness on fake news

2019-1-FR02-KA105-0158602019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|BE|FI|IT|UK|ES|RO|BG|TR|HR|HU|PT|DE|AT|EE · Grant: €39,630
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesInclusion - equityEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

Through this seminar, AMSED and its 14 European partners from Italy, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria, England and Turkey, want to share good practices and work closely networked to acquire key, civic and cross-cutting skills, promote non-formal education initiatives to raise youth awareness of fake news, their impacts and consequences on young people and society and how to fight against this false information and set up multiplier effect youth activities in their local and national realities in Europe. The specific objectives of the seminar are: - Stimulate the understanding of the analysis of realities experienced by youth actors with fewer opportunities in relation to the fake news spread on the Web and the good practices of raising awareness among young people at different levels, from local to European. - Allow youth and youth actors to identify, react to fake news and identify the context and variables that make young people, particularly disadvantaged, more vulnerable to this false information. - To equip participants and their organizations with new skills (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and methods that improve their personal and socio-educational development by mastering traditional media and social networks and to get young people, particularly those in difficulty, to take a look and critical thinking and understanding how harmful fake news influences society and young people. - Create multilingual tools for teenagers and young people (quiz false information, a tutorial "protect themselves from fake news" and a teaching kit for multimedia education in the form of modules: critical thinking, discerning the information of the 'intox, rumor and verification of sources, online harassment, belief and knowledge) as tools to expand the world view of young people, the critical thinking of young people and the fight against fakes news. - Develop 10 new projects to raise awareness of the fake news, developing the critical spirit of young people, partnerships with concrete effects, multiplier impacts and recommendations by ensuring maximum dissemination among young people, particularly disadvantaged, youth NGOs, media, elected officials, authorities and the general public. This seminar is closely related to the priorities of the Erasmus + Program through the development and reinforcement of key and transversal competences of socio-educational facilitators contributing to the improvement of the socio-educational quality of youth activities in Europe, the strengthening of citizen participation of young people in local and European democratic life, in particular in multimedia education, critical thinking and the development of digital skills.

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