SMARTY

Short Project Description
In today’s AI-driven and information-saturated society, digital and media literacy has become an essential competence for full participation in social, civic, and cultural life. Individuals are constantly exposed to large volumes of information and are increasingly required to critically access, analyze, evaluate, and create digital content in order to make informed decisions related to their personal lives, health, work, and civic engagement. Beyond consuming information, active participation in contemporary culture also requires the ability to responsibly create and share content.

Project Objectives

The project aims to develop participants’ competencies to:

• Make responsible choices by effectively accessing, locating, sharing, and understanding information and ideas
• Critically analyze media messages by identifying authorship, purpose, point of view, credibility, and quality
• Differentiate between AI-generated and human-created content
• Distinguish between various media sources and assess their reliability
• Create digital content using text, visuals, audio, and modern digital tools and technologies
• Reflect on personal digital behavior by applying ethical principles and social responsibility
• Take social action individually and collaboratively to share knowledge and address challenges within families, workplaces, and communities
• Explore ways to involve local authorities in promoting digital and media literacy education
• Develop strategies to engage additional stakeholders, such as libraries, community-based organizations, public institutions, businesses, and media and technology sector representatives

Targeted participants

• youth workers, youth leaders who are older than 18 years.
• youngsters working or interested in media and media education
• youngsters interested in AI world
• youngsters interested in creating media content and making an influence on the public.
• youngsters/youth workers interested in media literacy education, digital education.
• youth workers are interested in learning skills, how to share their knowledge and how to promote it in their local
communities.
• English language skills

Non formal methodology will be applied to all activities.