Critical Thinking Roadshow - Youth for online resilience in V4 and Western Balkans

Objectives
- Enhance critical thinking skills among youth: empower young people with analytical tools to question, evaluate, and verify the information they encounter online.
- Strengthen media literacy and fact-checking capacity: raise awareness of how online disinformation spreads and how to detect and counter it effectively.
Foster intercultural dialogue and resilience to extremism: create safe spaces where young people can explore cultural differences and build mutual understanding.
- Build cross-border youth networks for social impact: encourage lasting collaboration between young people and youth organisations across the V4 and Western Balkans.
- Raise visibility of youth-led action through digital campaigns: support youth-driven storytelling and outreach on social media platforms.

Activities:
1. Partner meeting in Budapest, Hungary (2 days, 2 participants/country)
2. Critical Thinking Roadshow: 14 days (+2 travel days) long mobility roadshow (route: Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Serbia-Montenegro) with workshops, cultural evenings and local actions; 3 youngsters + 1 youth leader/country
3. Online campaign: 2 weeks long Instagram campaign about combatting disinformation and strengthen critical thinking (stories, posts, reels)

Critical Thinking Roadshow:
• Travel day from home to Krakow - 2 full days in Krakow - travel day to Bratislava - 2 full days in Bratislava - travel day to Budapest - 2 full days in Budapest - travel day to Belgrade - 2 full days in Belgrade - travel day to Podgorica - 2 full days in Podgorica - travel day from Montenegro to home
• Activity days: 10, travel days: 6, 16 days in total
• Each partner will be responsible to organise activities around the topic of critical thinking, active participation and digitalisation for the group, including a national cultural evening, workshops, and a local action in which local youth can also participate (e.g. mini conference, study visit, flashmob, outdoor activity…)

If you are based in Bratislava or ready to host the activity there (we cannot accept other location this time because of the project concept) and are interested, please send an email to projects@youthbridgesbudapest.org.

We look for Slovak NGO partner only, otherwise the partnership is completed. Thank you for your understanding :)