Digital4All aimed to empower youth workers to foster digital literacy, critical thinking and motivational learning strategies among young migrants. Specifically, the project sought to: 1. Familiarise youth workers with digital competences and their relation to critical thinking processes 2. Prepare youth workers to assess young migrants’ critical thinking, digital experiences and literacy 3. Assess young migrants’ needs and attitudes regarding digital literacy and critical thinking 4. Collaboratively develop a framework for young migrants’ digital literacy development with youth workers 5. Foster youth workers preparedness to implement the Building a Digital World for All eLearning course 6. Foster young migrants’ critical thinking, motivation, and digital/information/media literacy Ultimately, the goal was to promote social inclusion, resilience, and active citizenship by equipping both youth workers and young migrants with the skills and tools needed to navigate the digital world critically and confidently
The Digital4All project was initiated in response to the growing need to strengthen the digital literacy and critical thinking skills of young migrants, who face heightened risks of misinformation and exclusion in digital spaces. Building on lessons from the TeDiCom project, which revealed that the spread of fake news is often due more to motivational and literacy gaps than technical skills, we identified a clear need to equip youth workers with the competences to address these challenges. Migrants often rely on digital platforms for crucial information about housing, health, and integration, yet many lack the skills to navigate these spaces safely and critically. Youth workers, though motivated, frequently lack structured training in these areas. This project was designed to respond to both gaps through co-created, inclusive, and accessible training resources.