Media Education and News Literacy to yoUth against Fake news recepTion and implicatiOnS
FATOS2U promotes critical thinking enhancement and media & news literacy among young people to strengthen democracy and fight manipulation, propaganda and fake news.
Start: 01-05-2022 End: 01-05-2024
Project Reference: 2021-2-PT02-KA220-YOU-000049293
EU Grant: 227 324 EUR
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices
Action Type: Youth mobility
Project Partners:
- ASDPESO (Portugal)
- CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD (Cyprus)
- Xenios Polis. Culture, Science and Action (Greece)
- SC GRIPEN EUROPE S.R.L. (Romania)
- Compass – Beratung, Begleitung und Training Gemeinnützige GmbH (Austria)
- Mine Vaganti NGO (Italy)
Project TOPICs:
1)Creating new, innovative or joint curricula or courses
2)Media literacy and tackling disinformation
3)Quality and innovation of youth work
TARGET GROUPs
the young persons- youth aged 18-25- who are brought up and belong to this generation and era of digital and technological boom- who will be educated on the proper use of media, and thus, social media, too and the anti-Fake news approaches
PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES
- a) To enable youth to properly and ‘ethically’ navigate the modern news environment and take informed decisions
- b) To empower young people and to raise their awareness on countering the effects of disinformation campaigns and fake news spreading through digital media on issues of major and dominant interest of our society
- c) To foster youth’s critical appreciation and understanding of the mass media inside a changing and increasingly complex media & news landscape
- d) To define a clear and comprehensive training approach for tackling the spread and impact of online fake news in Europe, protecting European values and democratic systems and the right of youth to diverse and reliable information in regards with current situations
- e) To set users-youth responsibilities according to a number of principles & in response with the specific roles of different actors (social platforms, news media and users, language used, etc)
APPROACH / METHODOLOGY
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Project ACTIVITIES
- Kick-off meeting, Cyprus
- 2nd Transnational Meeting ,Greece
- 3rd Transnational Meeting + Final Conference, Portugal
- Curriculum & Learning Materials Toolkit
- Multifunctional Digital Resources
- Training Guidelines Handbook
- NATIONAL WORKSHOPS
For more information visit here.
Kick-Off Meeting
18th and 19th of January 2023 – Nikosia,Cyprus