Acting Youth, Get SMACT (GeS) aims to increase the competencies of youth workers in EU and WB on media literacy. Our objective is to build the skills and the capacities of youth workers to assess and to have a critical understanding of the media, as well as to interact with the media. This will enable the youth workers of partner countries NGOs to navigate the modern news and to take informed decisions. Media literacy is very important for European Youth. As mentioned in the policies of European Union "media literacy is vital for economic growth and job creation. Digital technologies are a key driver of competitiveness and innovation in the media, information, and communication technology sectors". The EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and its eleven European Youth Goals also indicate the need of young people to increase their competencies. The target groups of this project are youth workers working with young people and high school teachers. Youth workers especially from Western Balkan countries need to get more knowledge, improve their skills on media literacy and critical thinking. In this aspect youth CSO’s need to raise capacities by training their youth workers in media literacy. An important part of the project is the interaction with media, a necessity for the civil society to raise its impact in the community. Also, we are targeting high school teachers to raise their capacities in media literacy, aiming to reach more young people in each partner country through education system. Combining local actions and news technologies with non-formal education methodology and mobility activities will enable young people to have an inclusive and active participation in the local & European level and build their competencies.550 young people will benefit directly from the planned actions and over 50000 people will be involved indirectly through the activities in local and European level.
The objectives: •To increase the competencies of youth workers in EU and WB on media literacy.•To build the skills and the capacities of youth workers to assess and to have a critical understanding of the media.•To raise interaction with media, a necessity for the civil society to raise its impact in the community.•To promote Erasmus + program and non-formal education approach as a powerful tool for young people engagement in everyday life in protection of marginalized youth.
GES was a 2-year project focused on tackling disinformation and promoting media literacy among young people through education and training. The aim was to build the soft skills and the capacities of young people to have a critical understanding of the media, to support knowledge sharing and exchanges on ML practices to youth workers and teachers, as well as to raise interaction of Youth NGOs with media. The target were youth workers working with young people with fewer opportunities and teachers
<< Background >> GES was a 2-year project focused on tackling disinformation and promoting media literacy among young people through education and training. The aim was to build the soft skills and the capacities of young people to have a critical understanding of the media, to support knowledge sharing and exchanges on ML practices to youth workers and teachers, as well as to raise interaction of Youth NGOs with media. The target were youth workers working with young people with fewer opportunities and teachers << Objectives >> The objectives: •To increase the competencies of youth workers in EU and WB on media literacy.•To build the skills and the capacities of youth workers to assess and to have a critical understanding of the media.•To raise interaction with media, a necessity for the civil society to raise its impact in the community.•To promote Erasmus + program and non-formal education approach as a powerful tool for young people engagement in everyday life in protection of marginalized youth. << Implementation >> To implement this project, five partners are engaged. In order to ensure strong partnership from the very beginning, a task planning document was prepared for each partner to specify responsibilities of each organization on organizing and implementing planned actions in cooperation with partners and stakeholders, implementing the visibility and dissemination strategy, collecting data, creating the local action plan for Capacity Building Actions and Mobility activities within respective deadlines << Results >> 550 young people benefited directly from the planned actions and thousand people were involved indirectly through the activities in local and European level. Project provided training methods on media and information literacy for youth workers, trainers and teachers. Combining local actions and news technologies with non-formal education methodology and mobility activities enabled young people to have an inclusive and active participation in the local & EU level and build their competencies.