Promoting Media Literacy Education TC

Aims & objectives

The main aim of the mobility was to give youth workers tools to see through political propaganda, marketing tricks of big companies and other manipulative techniques.

The objectives were:
- to teach critical thinking skills in order to see through mislead spread by (social) media.
- to help youth workers prevent radicalization, isolation and social exclusion of people that don’t follow the latest trends or face difficulties or obstacles.
- to give youth leaders tools to teach youngsters to create resistance against peer pressure by equipping them with basic principles of financial literacy, long-term planning and goal setting instead of short-term thinking and buying instant satisfaction.
- to provide enough knowledge and skills to be able to transfer this topic to other young people through future activities.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

There were 24 youth workers and youth leaders from 8 countries - Belgium, Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy, Spain, Ukraine.

Training methods used & main activities

Workshops, presentations, simulation activities, research.

Outcomes of the activity

A local campaign in the training city about media literacy by the participants

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

Co-trainer

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.