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MISS to young people: More Information, Safe Surfing

2019-3-IT03-KA105-0176672019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: IT|EE|ES|PL|RO|PT|SI|FR|DE|HR · Grant: €1,732.5
Civic engagement / responsible citizenshipICT - new technologies - digital competencesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

This project came as an effective response to the necessity of dealing with the risks involved in the digital world young people surf every day. Young people are big users of the Internet for information retrieval, but is the information they access true, safe, reliable? According to Structured Dialogue Cycle VI and the reports of the European Youth Researchers under point 4 (Dialogue and Difference) young people "wish to have access to news and information that is understandable, suitable for young people and not misleading', especially because of the general feeling of negativity towards the Internet because '[...] there are also risks'.. Some concerns about Internet use relate to the safety of children and young people and their behaviour, [...]. children and young people and their behaviour, [...]. In addition, some children and young people may have their privacy violated when online or, alternatively, may be exposed to potentially harmful content, which can be addictive and potentially harmful content, which can create addiction, anxiety or aggression'. This is why a project like MISS was necessary to train educators, youth workers and all people working with young people on the topic of disinformation, fake news and safe surfing. In the communities of our partners and in the organization of their networks youth workers found themselves with no or limited preparation to support the young people in their online interactions. Throughout the project we aimed to face this lack of knowledge and skills in the topic of media and digital literacy and boost youth work competences in this area on partner organization for a more innovative and higher quality youth work. “Knowing how technologies are build, learning to be critical toward information and being curious and become critical towards new technologies are more important every day. All young people of today will need technological skills and an agile mindset towards technology, their future work and everyday life, and youth work should be able to encourage it.” Concretely the project objectives were: 1) Increase youth workers/professionals knowledge on the topic of media literacy and digital literacy, in particular related to information and media manipulation; 2) Develop deep understanding on the risks and challenges young people face on-line and the issue related to media usage; 3) Improve youth workers/professionals competences to deal with these issues with their target groups, including and especially young people with fewer opportunities; 4) Increase youth workers/professionals capacity, sense of initiative and motivation to carry out high quality activities dealing with these issues with their target groups; 5) Furnish concrete learning tools and methods based on non-formal learning for developing efficient projects and activities addressed to their young people on the topic; 6) To promote digital youth work as a tool to address the main issues young people face in current digital world; 7) To create the frame and give spaces to allow participants share experiences and ideas for followup cooperation activities among partner organizations.

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