In an age where information moves faster than ever and the line between reliable and misleading content grows harder to navigate, media literacy isn't a nice extra. It's essential. That was the starting point for Educate Me(dia), a training course that brought participants together in Rzeszów, Poland, from October 24 to 30, 2016.
The course ran under the Erasmus+ programme (project number 2016-1-PL01-KA105-025415, youth sector) and was built around one central goal: helping participants become more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more effective communicators. Through interactive workshops, open discussions, and collaborative activities, participants worked on understanding not just how media functions, but how messages are shaped, sent, received, and interpreted differently depending on who's on either end of the conversation.
The result was a group of people who left not only with stronger media skills but with a more nuanced sense of how media shapes society and how individuals can engage with it more critically and consciously.
Making it all possible was a network of partner organisations from across Europe, each contributing to identifying participants who would benefit most from the training:
International Projects' Association INPRO - Poland
Infinite Opportunities Association - Bulgaria
Mirovna grupa mladih Dunav - Croatia
Association of Citizens Cefe Macedonia Skopje - Macedonia
A.D.E.L. (Association for Development, Education and Labour) - Slovakia
Youth Horizons - Greece
Agrupamento de Escolas de Vilela - Portugal
Go Free (Asociatia pentru Sprijinirea Societatii Civile) - Romania
Additional support came from Estrada Rzeszowska, Rzeszowski Inkubator Kultury, whose involvement helped bring the project to life on the ground.
