QYourself

QYourself is our latest innovative European project co-funded by the Erasmus+ program. It aims to tackle disinformation by providing teachers and educators working in a wide range of different educational contexts with knowledge, tools and ready-to-use media and information literacy materials.

This two-year project, worth €250,000 and running from November 2023 to October 2025, stems from the need to combat the phenomenon of disinformation, which has become a serious problem for democracies in Europe and around the world.the project aims to raise awareness among European citizens of the need to verify information before it is shared:

- Promote the professional development of trainers and teachers to enhance and develop their digital and media skills for teaching

- Building on the digital literacy framework published by the European Commission and the recently published guidelines for teachers and educators on dealing with disinformation.

- Improving the quality of current and future learning opportunities in European education systems to use digital media literacy teaching as a regular part of the teaching program in five different education sectors and countries Handbooks and interventions to improve media and information literacy.

The project will adapt educational content and approaches taught in journalism faculties to other educational contexts so that a wider variety of educators are better prepared to foster their learners' abilities to verify news, check sources and prevent the spread of disinformation.

QYourself will develop practical, open, digital educational resources - the QYourself Handbook - tailored for teachers across Europe to address the phenomenon of disinformation in their different teaching contexts and to inspire critical thinking in their learners.

The digital handbook is based on extensive field research and translates academic journalistic knowledge into non-academic teaching tools to promote critical thinking and information verification skills among European citizens. It consists of a complete teacher's guide to media and information literacy with teaching strategies and activities for teachers, as well as an additional program for informed and effective digital content creation.

The handbook will take into account the DigCompEdu competence framework and the European Commission's recently published guidelines on tackling disinformation, and these resources will then be tested and adapted in collaboration with educators and teachers in five European countries - Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain - in a series of tests in a variety of real educational settings. Using the QYourself handbook, participating teachers will take part in a series of professional development sessions and then put their newly acquired knowledge into practice. In these sessions, they will create and implement their own lesson plans and materials for their specific learners, which will then be included as additional resources in the QYourself handbook.‍