The project aimed to equip youth workers from seven countries with skills to address disinformation and misinformation through an international training course.
Core Objectives Achieved:
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Awareness of Disinformation: Participants explored their countries’ historical encounters with propaganda and misinformation to contextualize current challenges.
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Skill Development: The program enhanced participants’ ability to recognize disinformation, discuss its societal impact, and educate others about it.
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Media Literacy: The training improved media literacy and critical thinking among youth workers, empowering them to address misinformation in their professional roles.
Activities Carried Out:
The project centered on a mobility training course employing non-formal educational methods such as discussions, debates, workshops, mentoring, outdoor activities, and creative movement.
Participants collaboratively created a practical booklet with tips for recognizing and addressing disinformation, which was disseminated within their organizations and communities.
The training promoted experiential learning, active engagement, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
Outcomes:
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Professional Growth: Participants gained tools to facilitate respectful discussions, moderate conflicts, and enhance their critical thinking.
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Educational Impact: Participants developed activities targeting young people, particularly those with fewer opportunities, addressing societal challenges linked to misinformation.
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Organizational Benefits: Partner organizations improved their educational quality, deepened engagement with young people, and expanded inclusion initiatives. The project enhanced their capacity for future European collaborations and the use of innovative tools.
Long-Term Impact:
Participants returned to their communities equipped to promote media literacy, foster critical thinking, and encourage youth activism.
Local follow-up activities such as workshops and seminars disseminated the training outcomes.
The intercultural collaboration ensured universal applicability of the methods developed, strengthening the European youth sector’s capacity to tackle disinformation.
This initiative fostered a network of empowered youth workers, enhancing the inclusivity and effectiveness of youth programs while addressing misinformation challenges across the Central and Eastern European region. Through this effort, the project created a ripple effect, driving positive change in local and international contexts.
Participants were from Ukraine 
, Lithuania 
, Hungary 
, North Macedonia 
, Poland 
, Romania 
and Slovakia 
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