csiadm March 27, 2023
FATOS2U promotes critical thinking enhancement and media & news literacy among young people to strengthen democracy and fight manipulation, propaganda and fake news. The recent social challenges and the urgent health and economical situations – with the covid 19 pandemic- creating multiple public and individual behaviors, continuous information and progressive changes, have set this concrete need for further media and news literacy among young citizens, who may be more affected (as frequent also users of the media) than the rest of the citizens regarding reactions and right behaviors towards the huge amounts of news/information. It attempts also, to enable EU young citizens to make informed decisions and understand what is real and what not.
a) To enable youth to properly and ‘ethically’ navigate the modern news environment and take informed decisions
b) To empower young people and to raise their awareness on countering the effects of disinformation campaigns and fake news spreading through digital media on issues of major and dominant interest of our society
c) To foster youth’s critical appreciation and understanding of the mass media inside a changing and increasingly complex media & news landscape
d) To define a clear and comprehensive training approach for tackling the spread and impact of online fake news in Europe, protecting European values and democratic systems and the right of youth to diverse and reliable information in regards with current situations
e) To set users-youth responsibilities according to a number of principles & in response with the specific roles of different actors (social platforms, news media and users, language used, etc)
- ASDPESO (PORTUGAL)
- CSI-Center for Social Innovation (CYPRUS)
- Xenios Polis. Culture, Science and Action (GREECE)
- SC GRIPEN EUROPE S.R.L (ROMANIA)
- Compass4U (AUSTRIA)
- MineVaganti NGO (ITALY)
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.[Project number: 2021-2-PT02-KA220-YOU-000049293 ]
