Get it right Erasmus Project

Project Title

Get it right

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Get it Right is a project implemented in partnership between Romanian Youth Movement for Democracy (RYMD), Donegal Youth Service (Ireland), and Inter Alia (Greece). The Project focus is on media literacy and providing an opportunity for young people to examine the concept of Fake News. The main aims of Get it Right have been to develop skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of media literacy; to cultivate new abilities, such as critical thinking, text interpretation/analysis, responsible use of social media, with a view to raise awareness among people from the European countries about the importance of media literacy. In doing so, the project involved hundreds of trainers, youth workers and young people who participated in the development of the methods described below. Spanning 28 months, from 1st September 2018 to 31st December 2020, going through the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the project has involved participants from Romania, Greece and Ireland and it was structured starting from the needs of the beneficiaries, going to developing, testing and promoting the final result.
In the first part of the project, the three partner organizations have realized a field research in order to find out media literacy education practices, the online behavior of the young people, and the main risks they are facing when they use the internet. In the second part, the course was developed in accordance with the findings of the research, this phase going side-by-side with testing the educational methods developed. 18 trainers, youth workers and youth leaders (6 from each participating country) have been informed in media literacy and taught to use the developed course, and a total of 194 young people aged 14 to 35 participated held experimental laboratories in order to test and review it, with special attention being accorded to the young people from with lower opportunities, such as young people from rural areas, young people with health problems or LGBT. More than 20000 people were informed through the online channels about the projects’ activities, results and learned about became more aware of the importance of the evaluation of the information using relevant strategies.
This Media Literacy non-formal learning guide is the main outcome of the Get it Right project. The course handbook offers a selection of 32 non-formal learning methods to enhance media education among young people. The descriptions of the methods provide the duration, group size, materials needed, concrete steps to do the work questions for Debriefing & Reflection, Learning Outcomes, and other additional resources. We hope that the course handbook will help trainers, youth workers, teachers and any interested person or organization working in media education to contribute to the raising of the level of critical thinking of future generations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75129 Eur

Project Coordinator

Romanian Youth Movement for Democracy & Country: RO

Project Partners

• Donegal Youth Service Ltd
• INTER ALIA