FAIR NEWS was an Erasmus+ co-funded project in the field of school education addressed to high school students in four European countries (Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria). The project aimed to help students to become more conscious readers, co-creators and co-distributors of knowledge. It supported high school students to learn to navigate ambiguity and manage complexity. It introduced them to the theory and practice of Fair News by: - Developing a deeper understanding of how knowledge is created, cocreated, distributed and amplified in an increasingly complex digital landscape; - Improving awareness of the power of words and images from a holistic, multidisciplinary, and long-term perspective; - Offering a space in which students can learn and teach, enabling them to become media literate by listening as well as speaking to them, to prioritise the needs and voices of students; - Empowering students as digital citizens and participants in democratic life through new ways to consume, create, present and distribute their own news content. The ability to understand and evaluate information and knowledge is the foundation of becoming and being a conscious citizen.
FAIR NEWS is a cooperation partnership to support innovation in the field of school education. The project aims to help students to become more conscious readers, co-creators and co-distributors of knowledge. In the current landscape, in which young people are exposed to multiplying media perspectives, the question of how knowledge is created, disseminated, and consumed is ever-more important. Young people need the ability to recognize bias and identify fair and trustworthy sources of news and information. Further, as the digital world becomes increasingly atomised, and much of social and civic life takes place online, many young people risk disconnection and isolation from the local, national, and international communities. The question of what makes news fair, and how the voices of young people across Europe can be heard in the media landscape, is now of pressing importance. The aim is to facilitate and develop the skills and knowledge needed to understand and create news which is fair and inclusive, and so to foster a new form of educational community capable of enhancing social engagement and cohesion, in relation to the Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning (Recommendation of the Council of the European Union, May 2018).