About the Project
The Gamedia project aims to provide tools for youth workers in training youth in media literacy and sensitise them to mis/disinformation and fake news. This will make youth conscious, creating a positive impact on the development of the communities. It will be achieved through the development of a card-based board game, training workshops with youth, guidelines for the implementation and informative videos.
Objectives
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WTo improve the skills of youth workers in and outside of the partner organisations
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WTo provide a tool for youth workers to train youth in media literacy
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WTo make youth workers aware of the potential benefits of game-based learning
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WTo boost youth’s engagement in the community as informed citizens
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WTo improve youth’s media literacy skills to combat dis/misinformation in Europe
Activities
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WResearch activity for mapping mis/disinformation and media literacy skills
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WDesign and elaboration of game’s materials (cards, scenarios, etc.) available in 6 languages
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WDevelopment of a card-based board game
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WInternational training-testing activity attended by youth workers
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W15 pilot workshops involving 54 young people in total.
Results
Report on the most common and damaging forms of mis/disinformation, and the main skills, methods and good practices associated with combating them.
The Project Game: a card-based board game focusing on media-literacy training workshops with youth.
A booklet of workshop guidelines for youth workers for youth workers to carry out media literacy training with youth, structured around the use of the project game.
News
The fight against disinformation has just started!
In face of the growing challenges that misinformation and disinformation pose to contemporary societies, diverse associations from all around Europe have decided to join forces through the creation of GAMEDIA, an Erasmus+ project that aims to provide youth workers...
Partners
CEIPES
CEIPES – International Centre for the Promotion of Education and Development is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 and based in Palermo, Italy. It leads a Network of more than 8 European and extra European associations focused on Education, Training and Social Development. CEIPES has expertise on Education, Transfer of innovation and Project management in different European programmes tackling the Education and the capacity building of different target groups, from young people to adults, from women to unemployed, migrants and disadvantaged groups. It also promotes lifelong learning, vocational training and entrepreneurship with the aim of enhancing opportunities for youth and adults to improve and acquire competences and therefore boost their employability and inclusion. CEIPES has several links with public and private local and international stakeholders that can contribute to the achievement of project results in terms of dissemination, exploitation and sustainability of them. CEIPES can count on experienced staff composed of professionals with different competences and fields such as psychology, communication, training, international cooperation, social and cultural mediation, social assistance, ICT, digital manufacturing and law.
Unique Projects
Association unifies young proactive people. Members of organization try to expand occupation of young people, bring new alternatives of spending their free time, encourage self-actualizing, create favorable conditions for young people and members to improve and grow like creating, thinking and acting personalities. We try to develop values of moral, culture and active citizenship, educate about importance of action, non-formal learning for the reason that learning starts from the habits of humanity: accepting new people in your own community, ability to help them. We encourage the youth to be active, communicate with different people and discover new stories, traditions and cherish the history and heritage of Europe. Organization is active in taking part in international projects, as well as initiating local events.
MIR AKADEMIEN AB
MIR Akademien is an educational organisation and consultancy working in the field of social development with focus on diversity mainstreaming, human rights and sustainable development. We approach social innovation via a range of services such as participatory research, development of training solutions, carrying out training and individual consultancy to organisations and individuals based on real needs.
Dideas SL
Dideas is a social company dedicated to training and strategic consulting in the areas of business model definition, entrepreneurship, innovation, social responsibility, gender equality and sustainability. Dideas has more than 15 years of experience performing our activities, working for companies that operate the services sector (tourism, transportation, customer service, training) as well as in productive sectors. In the field of Erasmus+, we are quiet active and we have more than 15 approved, coordinating 5 of them. The topics are related to our activities: sustainability, disabilities, integration, gender equality, diversity and social entrepreneurship.