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Official title: Media Wise – Building Youth Resilience Against Online Manipulation, disinformation and internet deception
Agreement number: 2024-1-RO01-KA220-YOU-000248266
Duration: 01st of October 2024 – 30th of September 2026
Applicant: Vox Civica Association – Romania
Partners:
SPAIN (Zaragoza): AEGARE (Asociación de Empresarios Gallegos en Aragón y Riberas del Ebro)
BULGARIA (Sofia): Fair Chance Association
TÜRKIYE (Bursa): KEPDER (Kültür Egitim ve Proje Dernegi)
FRANCE (Paris): Hub Culturel et Educatif Paris
GREECE (Amaliada): Ergasia Ekpaideftiki Anonymi Etairia
General objective:
- Engaging and empowering young people by equipping them with the skills to critically assess online information, recognise and counter online manipulation, and combat disinformation and internet deception.
Specific objectives:
- To equip 24 youth workers with necessary online media knowledge, skills, and techniques in advocacy, public speaking, and critical thinking.
- To enhance the capacity and sustainability of the partner organizations to deliver high-quality technical knowledge skills and techniques in advocacy, public speaking, and critical thinking.
- To create a collaborative environment between the partner organizations, sharing expertise, best practices, and innovative approaches.
The main activities of the project were split into four work packages, as follows:ț
- Work Package One: Project Management
- Budgeting: Estimating costs, managing finances, and ensuring the project stays within budget.
- Communication: Keeping stakeholders informed, and facilitating team collaboration.
- Risk Management: Identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks.
- Quality Control: Ensuring deliverables meet required standards.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Tracking progress, assessing performance, and making adjustments.
- Closing: Finalizing all activities, delivering the project, and reviewing outcomes.
- Work Package Two: Training of the Youth Workers
- Identify and Select Qualified Youth Workers: Choose 24 youth workers from diverse backgrounds committed to addressing online manipulation
- Draft Comprehensive Course Support Materials: Develop materials on technical knowledge, advocacy strategies, public speaking, and critical thinking
- Organize and Implement the Training Course: Plan and facilitate a training course for 24 youth workers, ensuring effective learning and evaluation
- Work Package Three: Setting up and Administration of the E-Hub Platform
- Conception of the E-Hub: Create a centralised, interactive, and user-friendly platform for digital transformation, collaboration, resource sharing, and ongoing learning for multipliers and young people
- Drafting Appropriate Resources for E-Hub: Develop high-quality, relevant materials aligned with the project’s goals for youth workers and young people
- Administration of E-Hub: Ensure functionality, security, accessibility, and ongoing technical support, monitor user engagement, gather feedback, and continuously improve the platform.
- Work Package Four: Multiplier Activities
- Digital literacy workshops: Empower young people to critically assess online information and resist manipulation through hands-on training.
- Media literacy sessions: Enhance skills to analyze media content and identify disinformation.
- Critical thinking seminars: Improve analytical abilities to assess online information.
- Fact-checking training: Teach methods to discern accurate information.
- Role-play games workshop: Use simulations to build decision-making skills and resilience.
- Overall, these activities strengthen digital, media literacy, and critical thinking to combat online manipulation and deception.
The project targets main groups are:
A. Youth Workers and partner organization members
Qualities required:
- Patience and empathy to understand the needs, learning pace, and anxieties of young people.
- Strong communication skills to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
- Basic digital skills, including email, internet navigation, online services, and social media.
- Openness to learning new technologies and staying updated on digital trends.
Selection: 24 individuals will be chosen to become multipliers.
B. Young people from the six communities involved in the project
Target Group:
180 young people (30 from each partner country).
- Those who expressed fears about manipulation, disinformation, and internet deception in a January survey.
- Young people with limited exposure to online training resources, educational materials, job market information, and cultural content.
Selection: At least 30 youngsters from each country will be invited to participate in five multiplier activities.
C. Partner organizations from the six European countries in the project
Benefits:
- Capacity building and expertise in adult learning tailored to young people’s needs and learning styles.
- Enhanced advocacy, public communication competencies, and critical thinking knowledge for staff.
- Improved collaboration and knowledge sharing through the exchange of experiences, best practices, and cultural approaches.
The concrete results of the project will be:
– 180 young people (30 in each partner country) who participate in multiplier activities organized within the project, will be able to critically thinking and will hold the necessary skills and knowledge to critically assess online information and identify and resist manipulation.
– 1 standardized training program for youth workers, including modules on technical knowledge and skills as well as techniques in advocacy, public speaking, and critical thinking.
– 24 youth workers trained to teach other young people to critically assess online information, and identify and resist online manipulation, disinformation, and internet deception.
– 6 organizations with enhanced capacity to deliver toward young people, free of charge, through more types of multiplier activities, technical knowledge and skills and critical thinking.
– 1 sustainable network of 24 trained youth workers, measured by the number of active youth workers.
Partner meetings we scheduled within the project are:
- Monthly online meetings on Microsoft Teams Platform*
, free of charge - Face-to-face meetings, as follows:
- Kick-off meeting in Romania – Buzău (November 2024);
- Mid-term meeting in Türkiye – Bursa (September 2025)
- Final meeting in Greece – Amaliada (August 2026
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*Vox Civica, as an NGO, benefits from a complimentary subscription to the complete Microsoft 365 Business Platform, which includes various software packages such as OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Forms, Clipchamp, and others.
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“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”