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MediaWISE YOUth - Skilled & Engaged: Stand Up To Disinformation!

2025-3-AT01-KA153-YOU-0003716982025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: AT|HU|TR|GE · Grant: €29,985
Digital skills and competencesMedia literacy and tackling disinformationPreventing radicalisation

Objectives

Through non-formal education and hands-on activities our project aims to empower participants with media literacy skills, critical thinking abilities, and digital awareness to recognize, analyze, and prevent the spread of fake news and misinformation. To achieve our aim, we have established a set of objectives that are fully in accordance with with our planned sessions and activities: - Expose the mechanisms behind fake news production and dissemination, identifying key promoters and their motives. - Define the role of youth organizations and youth workers in combating discrimination, and radicalization fueled by Misinformation. - Develop our youth workers essential skills to be able critically evaluate social media content and reveal differences between factual and distorted information. - Get familiar and practice media fact-checking free online tools - Motivate and empower youth workers to participate actively in civic life and advocate for positive societal changes. - Support youth workers to establish local civic engagement projects in collaboration with partner organizations. - Create a Toolkit which will reflect the learning tools and methods used on our project and will be a useful handout for other youth workers worldwide. - Increase participants’ understanding of the Erasmus+ Programme, promoting its opportunities for youth participation in civic life. - Develop and draft future Erasmus+ project ideas, ensuring ongoing impact and sustainability beyond the exchange program

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