Critical Media Consumption

All over Europe, young people are spending more and more time online, thus the consumption of media is increasing accordingly. However, many people are proving to be ill-equipped with skills to filter out and sort this growing intake of information, making a promising opportunity ineffective, and sometimes even harmful. This is why there is an ever so great need for competences allowing young people to navigate themselves around the wild waters of the Internet and media, recognise content of value, and distinguish fake news. Even so, such media-literacy skills are generally not taught in public schools, that is why the aim of the project is to enable youth workers with tools to educate young people they work with to become more conscious users of the Internet and consumers of media. We strive to provide the participants with useful techniques – within the framework of non-formal education – to promote and enhance critical thinking, and to raise awareness of media-literacy.
Throughout the project, we will implement workshops, individual- and group exercises to help youth workers gain experience themselves in the field of focus, thus enabling them to improve the media-literacy and critical thinking skills of the youth.

The project’s target group is: NGO trainers, facilitators, mentors, coaches, project managers and coordinators. For this training particpants from Hungary, Poland, Portugal, North Macedonia, Spain, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Italy, and Cyprus will join but through this call we are specifically searching for participants from Slovakia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Romania, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Hungary.

The infopack is available here: bit.ly/3VqhtSd