Media Literacy for Democracy focuses on the promotion of an effective media literacy strategy based on the multidisciplinary approach and on the cross-sector cooperation with the aim to tackling disinformation, empowering citizens to make informed decisions and protect democratic values. To do this, the consortium brings together 6 partners from 5 EU countries (IT, IE, ES, BG, PL), which will implement 10 events, in collaboration with different stakeholders across the participating partners’ countries. Such events, addressed to young adults, are structured around 3 phases:
- P1: Awareness campaign. It includes a project launch conference and distribution of a booklet aimed at informing citizens about the negative impact of disinformation on democratic societies and the importance of media literacy to build civil society capacity to adapt to the digital era and to protect democratic values.
- P2: Context analysis and stimulation of the debate among citizens. It includes 5 local focus groups with the aim to understand how young citizens perceive the mis- and disinformation phenomena and how they deal with them while using traditional and new media.
- P3: Empowerment of communities through a targeted media education for a more conscious and active participation in the public debate. It includes 3 international workshops where participants will interact with journalists, expert lecturers and CSOs representatives with the aim to empower them to become more informed digital citizens and able to transfer the acquired knowledge to their local communities. With the goal to help define an effective European strategy to promote media literacy in the Member States, a set of policy recommendations addressed to civil society, media workers and local and international institutions will be drafted and presented to a wide audience during the project’s final conference.
Media Literacy for Democracy Booklet is available here.
Project partners:
FIDU ETS (Lead partner, Italy)
Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Culture and Education (Bulgaria)
Research and Organisation Services Limited (Ireland)
Fundacion Alternativas (Spain)
Universidad de Jaen (Spain)
Uniwersytet Szczecinski (Poland)
Project duration: 01/10/2022 – 30/04/2024
The project is funded by the European Commission under the CERV Programme. Reference number: CERV-2022-CITIZENS-CIV-101081475.