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Building a social media resilience toolkit
Project dates
October 2020 - October 2021
Coordination
COFAC
Financed by
Erasmus+ KA2
Partners
ERYICA (Luxembourg), COFAC (Portugal), Ponty (Spain), DKMK (Croatia), IMEC (Belgium), Tartu University (Estonia)
Social Media Resilience Toolkit - SMaRT-EU is a project funded by the Media Literacy for All Programme of the European Commission. It aimed to l provide tools, tips and resources to train young people, digital immigrants (+50) and also the intermediaries who work with them. On media and information literacy. It focused on how to read media - particularly social media; critically understand how social media represent people and issues; and how to navigate social media with critical consciousness and fact-checking skills.
SMaRT-EU worked across these two generations and across five European countries (Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Belgium, and Estonia) and seven languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian and French. The partners involved diverse groups to ensure that the project reaches digital natives and migrants from different backgrounds and cultures. During the project timeline, there were five main activity streams:
Tools for social media resilience,
Participative activities with local intergenerational communities, using social media,
Online platform,
B-learning course and final workshop,
Youtube news.
By this activities, SMaRT-EU aimed to:
Produce a range of open access, tools, for use within social media spaces, for social-media resilience accompanied by intergenerational community training materials
Develop a transferable methodology to work with different communities and to enhance the social media resilience of young and senior citizens. The aim was to reduce the potential impact of ‘fake news’ and the negative effects of social media, by enable responsible media use for civic engagement.
Provide EU leaders with data, generated through participative methods, to capture how citizens from different generations experience online fake news, social media and civic engagement through digital media.
You can learn more about the project here.
