42 participants from 6 European countries got together in Agros between 25/8-02/2021 under the project "CRITICAL THINKING & FAKE NEWS. RE-THINK THE MEDIA" .Their mission was to improve the media literacy competences of young people and to issue a warning on the news that are invading the Internet. Thus, for one week participants carried out indoor and outdoor activities with common objectives: to help youngsters to consume media wisely, analyze media messages, test reliability and develop critical thinking. The main motive of the project initiation was the lack of media-literacy among youth generation. While the information technology develops rapidly, and media becomes more flexible, every day we receive information which is not easy to conceive and analyze. To be a correct consumer of today's media is rather complicated. 80% of Europeans have come across information they believe was false or misleading several times a month or more. Young people need to be more adequately equipped to navigate the media landscape and to participate in constructive dialogue. In this context, the main aim of our project was to help youngsters to consume media wisely, analyze media messages, test reliability and develop critical thinking. At the same time, we promote participation in democratic life, active citizenship and social inclusion in the digital world, through non-formal education activities and leisure education activities. Project topics: media literacy, social dialogue, critical thinking Main objectives: 1) Improving the media us-age goal setting skills of young people 2) Improving the ability of youth to find good quality information in the media 3) Bettering the ability of youth to critically evaluate media information 4) Boosting youth ability to engage in participatory and constructive media dialogue. This project based partly on non-formal education and partly on the principle of apprenticeship and hands-on. Nowadays it is vital for youth and youth based civil society organisations to grasp how social media works, not only because it is a free promotional tool for one’s activities and projects, but also because it is today the most powerful existing tool for activating communities behind a cause. The youth exchange itself presented to participants the basics of communication, public communication, influence, persuasion and rhetoric and how this applies to social media and communicating one’s messages and values to the wider public. We look into the sociology and psychology of mass-communication, as well as analysing the most recent existing movements which widely used social media and how it proved to be essential for its success. Most important of all this project included a very strong elements of practice and hands-on where everything that was learnt during the sessions can be put into practice, developing a social media strategy and implementing it under the support of group leaders. The identified causes of the lack of media literacy among youth according a research of all partners were: 1) Poor goal setting skills while using the media 2) Difficulties in finding good quality information in the media 3) Limited ability to critically evaluate media information 4) Lack of ability to engage in participatory and constructive media dialogue Economical crisis in Europe created conditions in which populist and different extremist ideologies are growing power. In this complicated economic situation, extremist and right wing organizations are offering what they consider a simple solution: blame different ethnical groups and minorities for problems in society, label them as potential danger, using misleading information and spreading fear. These strategies are not new, but unfortunately and as confirmed by results of different elections and opinion polls, still very effective. The same or similar strategies were used by many totalitarian regimes such as the Nazis, Fascist o Communist governments in different regions of Europe. Through this project, we focused attention of European citizens on the role of propaganda and communication strategies in totalitarian regimes and their ideologies and, through media literacy, bring new perspective which will allow more critically approach toward the use of media, with a special focus on new and “social” ones. We would like to make European citizens (with a special focus on young citizens) aware of the role that propaganda and misuse of media can play in creating cultural conditions for extremist, racist, xenophobic and radical behaviors, promoting at the same time a thought and critical use of the same media. Being media literate allows us to see that this is untrue and media does, in fact, have underlying messages that affect us. By understanding those messages, we can change how it affects us. Media literacy is so important to consumers because it can help us to control our actions in response to media, and allow it to have less control over our views.