With this project we want to alert young people to published fake news in their domestic and international environment and inform them how to recognize them. The media is the one that quickly spreads fake news over the Internet, often unknowingly. That’s why we want to show young people possibilities, with which the media can manipulate us. Therefore, the activities in this project will focus on learning how media works and getting to know them better as well as on finding out if they are fighting against fake news. Through a youth exchange »A modern fairytale: Hate speech & fake news in media« young people from six countries want to encourage other young people and show them how to recognize hate speech and fake news. With this project we want to learn how to recognize hate speech and its forms and work towards reducing its effects. We want to learn to spread horizons, to look at a certain matter more broadly, to spread our knowledge and awareness about mentioned topic and to spread tolerance among young people. We want to encourage young people’s team work and critical approach to media content. The aim of the project is to create awareness of hate speech in European Union, to give examples of hate speech and to warn about its consequences. Further goals are: to spread the importance of the exchange and spreading the message of the program with events; to learn how to be more cautious about recognizing fake news, increasing critical thinking, to encourage young people with fewer opportunities and to promote media literacy. Since the exchange will take place in English, we will strengthen our language skills and consequently knowledge transfer. In addition to English, we will also strengthen other foreign languages. We will increase intercultural awareness and improve public speaking. Throughout the project we will encourage creativity of young people in the field of multimedia content (photo and video) and enable the international experience for people with fewer opportunities. Young people will be encouraged to critical thinking, greater media literacy, intercultural understanding, engaging in international space and further collaboration in the field of formal and non-formal education. We wanted to encourage young people to tolerate other races, nationalities, gender, etc. By doing this project we aimed to improve digital competences, cultural awareness, recognize hate speech and gain experience, new knowledge and competences.
Youth exchange tied together 36 participants from six countries, namely from Slovenia, Italy, Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Greece aged between 18 to 30 years old. All participants are interested in current social themes of fake news and hate speech. For the purpose of the project, we intended youth exchange, which went on in immediate area of our organisation headquarters. We endeavored to involve young people with less opportunities. During exchange we actively cooperated in the activities and connecting with the local environment. Through workshops, discussions, formulated media campaign, creation of other media contributions, informal education and uniting we learned new skills and competences. We will also follow the objectives of promoting intercultural dialogue, solidarity and raising media literacy and overcoming hate speech. With this exchange and dissemination of project results we promoted Erasmus+ programme. We educated young people about possibilities of cooperation and about what can European Union offers them. Profile of the participants: students, persons with higher education, persons with university degree and persons with vocational secondary education.
