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Get Your Facts Straight! project presented at the 18th European Week of Regions and Cities
Last week saw the launch of the 18th edition of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities, with 70 unique online workshops exploring different aspects of empowering citizens. This theme marked the start of the three-week event, during which EU decision-makers, civil society and administrations around Europe meet to discuss current challenges facing European […]
Get Your Facts Straight! project concluded. Is this the end?
31 August 2020 marked the conclusion of the Get Your Facts Straight! project. In 13.5 months, 9 project partners from all corners of Europe developed and delivered media literacy training to combat disinformation and fake to 900 people of all ages. It sounds straight forward but believe us when we say the reality was quite […]
Get Facts in Catalonia, 3 pilots, 3 challenges
It is weird how things happen and how quickly changes happen in this new VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) era. At the beginning of March, we were about to close the agreements to do the Get Facts courses (“las cosas claras”, as we refer to them here) in schools when COVID-19 arrived and confined […]
Get Your Facts Straight! in Italy
COVID-19 hit our country very hard, our region (Emilia Romagna) has been one of the most affected, and we experienced a long period of isolation, but we didn’t lose heart and despite the problematic nature of the moment we managed to carry on Get Your Facts Straight! We rethought the project from a face to […]
“Get Your Facts Straight” Week in Germany – Five days, five webinars about Fake News
So there it was, the big “Get Your Facts Straight” week in Germany: five days, five webinars about “Fake News”. With the German title “Gemeinsam gegen Fake News”, translated “United against Fake News”, Stiftung Digitale Chancen organised five one-hour webinars, one every day, during the week from 15 to 19 June providing information about fake […]
Piloting of the “Get Your Facts Straight” online training in Romania
The coronavirus isolated us for a while and forced us to face unprecedented situations. The recent message from the World Health Organization was very clear: The success of humanity in managing effectively the situations caused by Coronavirus depends on the actions taken by each organization, institution or person in the next period. The outbreak of […]
#GetYourFactsStraight during COVID-19 in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria the training activities with students and parents were organized online in March and April 2020. The trainers prepared the presentations and resources carefully as the meetings were online and we had to work out all aspects – links, materials, videos, interactive methods and approaches to involve the participants beyond the webinars. Therefore, we […]
Get Your Facts Straight! online training in Croatia
COVID-19 preventive measures in Croatia were pretty severe, like in the majority of European countries, so CTC Rijeka created an online training course for the Get Your Facts Straight! training. The training course consists of interactive content (OERs) such as informative videos and tutorials, quizzes, infographics and other learning resources to improve and test participants’ […]
The “Get Your Facts Straight!” online media literacy lessons in Latvia are completed
At the beginning of April children and adults from Ventspils and across Latvia had the opportunity to participate in media literacy lessons of the training cycle “Online Media Literacy Classes for Adults and Children” as part of the “Get Your Facts Straight” project in Latvia. The training cycle consisted of two lessons. The first one […]
Get Your Facts Straight! training during COVID-19
As the confinement measures are gradually being lifted in many countries in Europe, including in the seven partner countries of our project, we are yet to process the impact of the last few months on our lives, on the economy, on education, on information and on the spread of disinformation. One thing is certain – […]
