Back to search

Keep it Real!

2020-2-DK01-KA105-0752232020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DK|ES|UK|TR|RO|HU|DE|IT|HR · Grant: €45,612.6
EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyCivic engagement / responsible citizenshipYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

Considering the fact that 75% of young people do not recognise fake news (survey by Mariya Gabriel), the Project Partners wanted to implement this project to address the need of young people to be more conscious members of society. The Project Partners were of the belief that, for a more responsible society, young people need to criticise what they read, hear or watch in the news, and they need to take effort to analyse a particular issue from different point of views. Therefore, the aim of this project was to foster media literacy and create responsibility towards information amongst European young people through local youth work. To reach this aim, the following objectives were set: 1) To improve youth workers competences in media literacy. 2) To deepen youth workers’ understanding upon the meaning and effects of fake news. 3) To provide youth workers with tools and methods upon how to identify fake news. 4) To equip youth workers with the skill of debating in an open manner. 5) To deepen youth workers’ understanding upon non-formal education and how to utilise it in media literacy education. 6) To deepen youth workers' knowledge upon press freedom, quality journalism and citizen journalism. 7) To give the youth workers’ clear understanding upon the role of journalists. 8) To equip youth workers with journalistic products which demonstrate the importance of quality journalism and which can be presented to young people on local activities as well. 9) To create a pdf guidebook for young people upon how to be media literate and detect fake news.

Project partners (9)