Fighting Fake News and Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills for Business Opportunities of Unemployed Citizens

Project Overview

The ultimate goal of this project is to not only educate but also to inspire and enable participants to navigate the digital world with confidence and critical insights. By sharing our methodologies and findings, we aim to extend the reach of our project, contributing to a global community that is more informed, resilient, and equipped to handle the challenges of the digital age.

Project: Fighting fake news and enhancing critical thinking skills for business opportunities of unemployed citizens

Duration: 01.11.2023 – 31.01.2025

Reference Nr. 2023-1-DE02-KA210-ADU-000157649

Grant Amount: 60,000 EUR

Donor: DE02 – Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung

What's About

Our project aims to tackle the challenge of fake news and disinformation, focusing on unemployed citizens and small business owners who are particularly vulnerable in the digital age.

At its heart, the initiative is about empowering these groups through a comprehensive approach that combines education and technology.

The project starts with a detailed assessment of the specific needs and challenges faced by our target audience. Based on this, we develop a tailored curriculum that focuses on critical thinking and digital literacy, essential skills for discerning credible information online.

This curriculum is brought to life through interactive workshops and webinars, delivered by specially trained educators who are skilled in engaging and effective teaching methods.

A key component of our project is the development of a user-friendly digital tool. This tool is designed to help users identify fake news and verify information, serving as a practical application of the skills learned in the program.

Continuous monitoring and evaluation ensure that the program remains effective and responsive to participants’ needs. Additionally, we create a support network for graduates, fostering ongoing learning and community engagement.

The main objectives of this project are to build the capacity of organisations in DE, HR, and PT to engage in international projects, create new non-formal education programs to improve critical thinking and media literacy skills of unemployed adults and small business owners, empower organisations to respond to the impact of fake news on adult business opportunities, and develop a new digital tool to enhance the capacity of organisations to use digital resources in their work.

Partners in this Project are:

Youth Power Germany e.V.

Associação de Investigação do Observatório Lusófono Atividades Económicas – Portugal

PANNONIA CONSULTING D.O.O. – Croatia

Pucko otvoreno uciliste Auto moto centar Nova Gradiska – Croatia

The Objectives

Activities

– Organising transnational meeting and training sessions for participating organisations to build their capacity for engaging in international projects and initiatives.

– Developing and implementing new non-formal education programs that focus on critical thinking and media literacy skills for adults, and empowering unemployed citizens with lower basic digital skills.

– Developing a new digital tool, including an eLearning platform and training materials, to increase the quality of education.

Impact

– Creation of new and unique non-formal education programs and digital tools that can be replicated in other contexts.

– Improved access to information and resources for organisations to respond constructively to the impact of fake news on adult business opportunities.

– Creation of new partnerships and collaborations with other organisations working on fake news and entrepreneurship issues.

– Improved knowledge management of adult education institutions and organisations

Von der Europäischen Union finanziert. Die geäußerten Ansichten und Meinungen entsprechen jedoch ausschließlich denen des Autors bzw. der Autoren und spiegeln nicht zwingend die der Europäischen Union oder der Europäischen Exekutivagentur für Bildung und Kultur (EACEA) wider. Weder die Europäische Union noch die EACEA können dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden.

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.

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Wellhoody Project

Project Overview

Project: Wellbeing in Diverse Youth communities

Duration: 01.03.2022 – 30.06.2024

Reference Nr. 2021-2-SE02-KA220-YOU-000049948

Grant Amount: 304,770 EUR

Donor: Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society – Swedish national Agency

What's about

EU-wide, youth who are either foreign-born or who are native-born with foreign-born parents account for one in five of 15 to 34-year-olds (OECD/EU, 2018). Their population share is increasing in virtually all EU countries, although their size and composition vary greatly across countries, reflecting countries’ different migration histories. They are one of the most at-risk groups in terms of social exclusion for multiple reasons: lack of economic resources, skills that don’t match employment opportunities and cultural differences; the attitudes of host country citizens, and sometimes outright displays of discrimination.

Youth well-being is one of the most important EU agendas and is at the core of the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027. We know that being part of an engaging community gives us a sense of belonging. Researchers at the University of Manchester say diversity is associated with higher social cohesion and greater tolerance of each other’s differences.

The WELLHOODY project will enable community wellbeing through youth learning and produce wider social benefits. Youth learning rooted in utilising the power of diversity will encourage all community members to become pursuers of mutual wellbeing while nurturing acceptance and inclusion in terms of diversity.

WELLHOODY is working to enable and ensure the inclusion of all young people in society. The Youth Strategy 2019-2027 recognises the need to ensure that marginalised young people are participating in all decision-making processes and are key players, particularly in processes concerning their own rights, wellbeing and interests (Goal 3).At the same time, Goal 4 is to achieve better mental wellbeing and end stigmatisation of mental health issues, thus promoting the social inclusion of all young people.

Partners in this project are:

Folkuniversitetet – Sweden

Momentum – Ireland

Outside Media – Germany

Youth Power Germany e.V. – Germany

Dramblys – Spain

LeLaba – France

European e-learning Institute – Denmark

Empower youth educators (500+ educators) to motivate diverse youth groups to learn, participate & socialise by providing a new evidence-based learning resource & approach to engage youth learners through PR1 GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE, society will benefit from increased knowledge of how to inspire diverse communities towards common wellbeing.

Equip youth educators, stakeholders in community & youth wellbeing, as well as inclusion agents, to fully utilise the diversity positive effects on youth groups wellbeing, through the WELLHOODY Open Education Resources (ultimately delivered to 500 YOUTH LEARNERS and additional 50 youth educators in the lifetime+tested by 10)

Cultivate a supportive environment where youth from diverse backgrounds can gain confidence in new life skills: civic participation, future planning, socialising, communication, self—care, mindfulness, digital skills via WELLHOODY YOUTH CONNECTORS. Youth workers will get understanding of the target groups, their wellbeing needs & objectives, intercultural communication (reach to 300+ educators, 50+learners)

Share open digital access to information, learning, and build closer relationships. PLATFORM & ONLINE COURSE will facilitate collaboration, create and add additional learning materials (1,000+ people engaged)

The Objectives:

IMPACT

WELLHOODY will reach young people en masse by equipping youth and community educators with an inclusive learning pathway, facilitating the creation of diverse and resilient youth communities.

1. GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE: Youth Participation and Wellbeing in Diverse Communities (reaching 500+youth educators) A guide which researches, collects and presents 20 good practices of youth participation in diverse communities that have significant positive outcomes for life satisfaction, inclusion and wellbeing.

Youth groups will be motivated to learn, participate, collaborate and socialise. Youth educators will benefit from a new evidence-based education resource and approach to engage the described combination of youth learners. Society will benefit from great knowledge of how to inspire diverse communities towards common wellbeing.

2. OERs – WELLHOODY Open Education Resources will encourage youth/community educators to take responsibility for wellbeing of young people and recognise/promote the strengths and benefits that being part of a diverse community brings. The resources will be user friendly and wherever possible bite-sized communication and video formats will be used, for maximum engagement, ease of use and access. (reach: 500+ YOUTH LEARNERS and additional 50+10 youth educators in the lifetime)

A set of OERs, in accessible forms such as videos, audio and reading materials that work in tandem with practical methods of teaching. A FACILITATORS GUIDE for youth educators will be created to enable them to get the most out of their knowledge delivery to learners in the process.

The OERs, course and guide will be highly TRANSFERABLE, as resources can be shared and have a universal appeal to learners of all ages. The facilitators guide can also be used by educators in HEI, VET or school settings. ALL PR2 results will be available in English, Swedish, Spanish, German, French securing transferability to wider EU audiences.

3. WELLHOODY YOUTH Connectors – one in each partner region (except technical partner’s region, but will have dissemination reach there too) will be developed during the timeline of the project. The Connector Club will be created with the participation of associate partners, members of the diverse community with the help of youth educators. Action plans will differ in different regions, according to each Connector’s specific needs. This result will be based around 2 main steps:

1. A comprehensive Network Guide, which will assist in the creation of our WELLHOODY Connector Clubs and ensure widespread uptake of this approach in recruiting young people, from native communities and migrant backgrounds. (will beownloaded 300+ times)

2. Creation and launch 5 WELLHOODY Connector Clubs recruiting young people, in inclusive environments that foster equity and equality, and that are responsive to the needs of the wider community, building youth participation, social ties and thus the wellbeing- 150 members

4. WELLHOODY Platform and Online Course (will engaging 1000+ people) – In addition to providing the materials, methodologies, tools, processes and learning resources, the platform will allow for international collaboration and peer to peer learning. It will enable collaboration between all kinds of actors and institutions involved in youth work and inclusion allowing for knowledge exchange with multiple stakeholders.

The platform also plays a central role within our wider exploitation strategy, which seeks to maximise our impact and replication of results and outcomes from this project. The platform will increase engagement with the wider

Project Platform

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