Seminar: Media and Information literacy as a tool to better respond to the “new normality” in Luxembourg

Seminar: Media and Information literacy as a tool to better respond to the “new normality”
21-25 March 2022 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

The seminar will focus on media and information literacy and examine its importance across different areas of youth work, as well as its impact on different, but integral aspects, such as critical thinking, assessing information and media, tackling disinformation, young people's needs in post-pandemic Europe, making youth services more sustainable, preventing violent extremism of young people or service design. Media and information literacy skills do not only make young people resilient to different types of manipulation but also actively contribute to their active citizenship and participation. On the other hand, youth workers have to be media literate too, in order to tackle this challenge. Diverse activities, good practice examples and sharing among participants will illustrate the topics and promote creative thinking.

Aims of the seminar:
To help youth workers develop or increase their skills with regards to their work and programme priorities;
To address topics relevant to youth work whilst responding to the current context and the needs in the field;
To assist youth workers to learn skills that they can use in their everyday work with young people;
To foster future project ideas and co-operation in the discussed areas.