Raising Awareness on Disinformation, Achieving Resilience (RADAR)

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Aiming to raise citizens’ awareness on disinformation and provide an accessible public platform for debate on the issue, this project focuses on harnessing citizens’ thoughts on disinformation (bottom-up), providing expert insights of protection against disinformation (top-down) and fomenting interaction and consultation between both (throughput). There will be a special focus on youth in order to contribute to the empowerment of their voices, their engagement in European civil society and improved education on critical thinking and media literacy. The project comprises 12 Work Packages (events): 5 public debates and 5 youth labs in EU member states, as well as a youth workshop and a final policy debate in Brussels. The public debates are open to the general public and will focus on raising awareness about disinformation through the contributions of experts and practitioners. The youth labs concentrate on working with smaller groups of young people through a peer-learning prism. ‘Youth Ambassadors’ will be selected among the participants in the 5 youth labs to participate in the Brussels youth workshop, where they will devise practical recommendations for EU action against disinformation in their communities. These recommended actions will be presented to relevant EU interlocutors in the final concluding conference in Brussels, where a large debate on disinformation will also unfold.