The aim of this project is to strengthen online civic engagement of young people, by giving youth workers tools to address Media Literacy and to promote E-participation.

The first activity of the project is a 10-day Training Course on Media Literacy, that aims to support youth workers to become more critical and exigent media consumers and communicators and for them to pass along this attitude to the young people they work with.

The Training Course will bring together 30 participants from Romania, Spain, Greece, Estonia, the Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Croatia, and Denmark and take place between the 25th of November – 4th of December 2020, the 25th of November being the arrival day and the 4th of December being the departure day.

The objectives of the activity are:
– To deepen youth workers’ knowledge and understanding regarding the Media;
– To give youth workers tools to strengthen young people’s critical thinking skills;
– To give youth workers tools to support young people recognize fake news and propaganda;
– To give youth workers tools to enable a proactive attitude amongst young people towards acquiring and spreading correct information;

The Training Course will be conducted in English and translation will not be provided. Therefore, the participants are expected to have a good level of English, both written and spoken.