The project
The WARRIOR project aims to promote dialogue and discussion which are crucial elements for identifying false information and avoiding falling into their trap.
It is aimed at promoting the safety of young people in the digital environment, as greater awareness of possible manipulation can help them build the digital skills and abilities necessary to avoid scams and scams, strengthening their sense of initiative in the social field.
By participating in this initiative, young people have the opportunity to be more incisive with their decisions and opinions and to proactively influence social processes, encouraging more effective cooperation.
The project is approved by the National Agency for Youth in Italy in the framework of the “Erasmus Plus KA220 – Cooperation Partnerships In Youth” program and it is granted by the European Commission
Aims
The project aims in particular to improve the digital skills of youth workers in identifying false information and manipulation and to develop innovative digital educational content that promotes young people’s safety in virtual environments.
In addition to understanding the impact of manipulative technologies, the contents developed by WARRIOR enable youth workers to know how to manage personal and social relationships in the digital age, being able to evaluate the risks of digitalisation and being able to make informed and reasoned decisions, encouraging new opportunities to network, collaborate and participate in social development. Moreover, the effective use of digital technologies has the potential to develop positive and sustainable changes in the field of non-formal education and the promotion of innovative methods of education. Furthermore, the project promotes better and more appropriate use of social media. It uses a new multidisciplinary approach, in particular psychological, to study fake news and manipulation, which is aimed at improving the capacity and innovation of working with young people.
The project wants to improve the media literacy of young people in the virtual environment, improving their digital skills to promote the fight against falsification and manipulation through social media, providing a theoretical background and a practical analysis of cases of fake news and manipulation techniques.The project is also directed to encourage collaboration within the youth sector by facilitating interactions between peers, experts and organizations from other countries involved in the project with the aim of providing networking opportunities.
Results
The Results to ve developed during the projects are the following:
- E-Handbook “Trickeries Guide”
E-Handbook “Trickeries Guide” involves the creation of a Manual aimed at providing theoretical knowledge and analysis of practical cases of manipulation techniques in a virtual environment, highlighting how manipulation influences the values and deep needs of young people. The manual also includes real-life examples to demonstrate, on the one hand, how manipulation affects young people’s values and needs and, on the other hand, how by improving their ability to recognize and resist manipulation, young people feel more confident and more engaged and therefore participate more in civic life
Download Trickeries Guide
- Training for youth “Fraud Identifier: depiction for media awareness”
The objective of this Work Package is to help to promote digital transformation by developing the digital preparedness, resilience and skills of young people.- The specific objectives of the ‘Fraud Identifier’ training course for young people aimed at youth media awareness’ are the following:
- Improving young people’s ability to recognise falsification and manipulation by analysing their needs and values, which
- are often manipulated.
- Increasing young people’s level of critical thinking, media literacy and flexibility.
- Providing youth workers with a readily available training concept that they can use in their work.
- Providing young people with the knowledge and skills to create video content to avoid and unmask fakes and manipulations.
- Promoting peer-to-peer training
- Short Іntensive training for youth workers/trainers “Digital Safeguarding”
The specific objectives of this Work Package are to develop and test a one-day training and materials that youth workers can use to train young people and improve their media literacy in virtual environments. The training has to include a practical component where youth workers can search for and analyse fakes on social media and other platforms, improving their competence in countering fakes and manipulation. - Communication and dissemination
WP5 has specific objectives:- Dissemination and presentation of project results
- establishing collaborations with associated partners
- interacting effectively with the target audience
- facilitating the participation of stakeholders and direct beneficiaries
- encouraging debate and the active participation of citizens
- boosting a new way of disseminating social media knowledge
- developing a network of operators interested in using the products
- promoting awareness of the project to the most important media