Due to widespread consumption of digital media with which young people live, communicate, learn, work, socialize with each other etc. it is wrongly assumed they use digital media in a critical way. COVID-19 pandemic is the latest example of how important media literacy (involving critical thinking) is. BBC indicates that some 649 posts were reported to Facebook and Twitter, including false cures, anti-vaccination propaganda and conspiracy theories around 5G. But, 90% remained visible online afterwards without any warnings attached, the report suggests. Media literate persons should be able to recognize which values are loaded into particular media content, or what are the goals and intentions of the communicator, or creator of media content. In other words, a person needs to have developed critical thinking in order to recognize the content behind the news. Young people all around Europe spend a lot of time on media consumption every day, however, generally, they are not prepared for conscious media consumption, since no one has taught them how to handle media smog, how to select valuable content and how to decode messages. The main objective of the project was to enable youth workers/youth leaders to teach young people to be more conscious media consumers by critically analysing the information they receive. We created conditions (tools and methods) for the establishment of an “equal partnership'' between the youth worker and young people where the youth worker is the one who assists, helps and guides the young person. Specific objectives of the project, in line with the Erasmus+ objectives, were: to raise awareness of problems in the area of media literacy and critical thinking in youth work to exchange practices and realities of involved partners/countries to develop capacity, professionalism, ability and self-confidence of youth worker’s to work with young people in the field of “Media literacy education” to understand how to encourage young people to critically analyse media content to raise quality in youth work in local, national and European context