FIGHTING AGAINST THE VIRUS – ” INFODEMIC ” Erasmus Project

Project Title

FIGHTING AGAINST THE VIRUS – ” INFODEMIC ”

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Media literacy, our capacity to access, have a critical understanding of, and interact with the media has never been as important as in today’s society. It enables citizens of all ages to navigate the modern news environment and take informed decisions.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to take a step back from our daily routines. As we spend more and more time at home, we increasingly rely on the internet, be that for working remotely or video calling relatives and friends. During times of uncertainty, like the ones we are experiencing, engaging with information that is trustworthy is more important than ever.
This infodemic highlights the important role media literacy plays in all aspects of life, including during moments of crisis. Media literacy education is key in ensuring that individuals can
find the real facts among all of the half-truths being shared online and beyond, especially when it can literally be a matter of life or death. As we are seeing now, media literacy is not
only a matter of education — it can also be a matter of public safety.
We aim to develop critical thinking skills of youth workers and raise the organisations’ capacity in the field of new media literacy in 5 EU partner countries to contribute to the quality of life of young people, emergence of new approaches and development of a more inclusive, tolerant, peaceful society and develop the quality and potential of digital youth work.
The project is built on the rationale that by becoming media literate, youth are able to critically and skeptically analyze media messages they encounter every day, become wiser consumers of media who are capable of evaluating online information and are able to protect themselves from deceptive media messages.
During the project life-cycle, the partners will develop a guide of best practices for teachers / youth workers in the field of Media Literacy Education.
The most obvious project results will be :
-A WEBSITE with all the info about the project , objectives , activities , downloadable outputs also a platform on ”Media Literacy for Inclusion ” : with a collection of demand-oriented tools &
methods, training programmes, formats for awareness raising activities, short films created during the Project life cycle about media literacy education …etc
-A Booklet of Exchange Of Best Practices ” : In this guide book we will share the methodologies being already used in partner organizations or developed altogether with the experiences gained during the project implementation to nonformally educate youngsters in topics od media literacy, checking the facts, hoaxes and media propaganda. Booklet will consist of the following:
a – Presentation of the Project ,presentation logo , presentation of partners’ common definition of ” BEST PRACTICES ”
b – Description of best practices collected (title – author – objectives – target – description -innovative elements – impact -conclusion)
c – Testing results with feedback from participants
d-Conclusion
The project includes 4 TPMs. the first meeting will be dedicated to project management while from the second onwards, after the Training, during each Meeting we will focus on the analysis of specific BEST PRACTICES adopted / or identified by each partner.
The purpose of the LTT in MALTA ; will be multiple, in particular:
– To exchange experience, tools and best practices concerning media literacy education especially for youth from disadvantaged backgrounds at local/National level;
– To Adapt and transfer the best bractices identified in the 5 partner countries rmethodologies based on formal/non formal education;
– To organize Testing Activities in each project partner’s country in order to share, Analyse, evaluate and adapt best Practices selected during the Training;
Youth workers will enlarge their knowledge and improve skills on the education of media literacy by sharing and exchanging experiences and best practices with other youth workers in Europe. The project will have a positive impact on youth workers -trainers in terms of:
-better understanding of the project topics – disinformation, media literacy, critical thinking.
-developed critical thinking and media literacy skills to transmit to young people their work with in order to foster their ability to recognise disinformation and counteract on its side effects by changing narratives
-Increased knowledge , skills to put into practice knowledge and new skills acquired in their daily work, thus developing youth critical thinking and promote their participation in their society and countries fighting against disinformation and its side effects.
Youth will participate the local testing sessions of the best practices and they will evaluate them with questionaires.” INFODEMIC” will empower and create a responsible population that can identify, prevent and block misinformation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 44876 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie Aktywna Integracja Rurzyca & Country: PL

Project Partners

• GENISTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• SDRUZHENIE WALK TOGETHER
• EESTI PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
• Incirliova Genclik Kultur Sanat ve Gelisim Dernegi