At the latest since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, the topic of data protection has repeatedly been part of the public discourse. The right of every individual to the protection of their personal data is already enshrined in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The GDPR only concretises this protection.

The General Data Protection Regulation contains provisions on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. It aims to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons - in particular their right to protection of their own personal data.

In other words, the GDPR describes our personal rights to informational self-determination. We ourselves should be able to determine the disclosure and use of our personal data. And these rights lead to obligations and provisions that companies and organisations must comply with.

But especially in the professional environment, data protection is seen by many people as a hindrance. Data protection is often associated only with restrictions and prohibitions. And that is a real pity, because it serves to protect the personal data of all of us.

The GDPRism project aims to support organisations and staff in adult education in planning and implementing projects in a data protection compliant manner. The target group of the project is therefore basically employees who are responsible for the planning and implementation of projects and educational offers. In addition to staff from administration, this also includes trainers and teachers from vocational and adult education.

In developing the content, the project also specifically addresses organisations that run projects in the ERASMUS+ environment. Nevertheless, the project results have a general validity and can also be used by other organisations and institutions. By building expertise and competences within the organisation, the project supports the target group in their digital transformation.

EDUCOMMART is responsible, among other things, for the quality assurance of the project and its contents. Furthermore, it will use its experience in dissemination and the existing far-reaching network to disseminate the project idea and results and will be responsible for the documentation and evaluation of the dissemination results.

In order to establish data protection as a central topic in everyday professional life, the essential basics must first be taught. What is data protection actually? What do we mean by personal data? What rights and obligations does the General Data Protection Regulation entail for me and my organisation? This content is prepared in the form of an e-learning module that enables people from adult education to acquire the basic knowledge and apply it in their own organisation.

This learning unit is complemented by a guideline for handling project data and participant data. This guideline describes the data protection-compliant implementation of a project using an ERASMUS+ project as an example.

In addition, the project documents and makes available concrete instructions, checklists and best practices that help to take data protection regulations into account in everyday life. This includes, for example, the selection of suitable online tools for preparing, conducting and following up lessons conducting and following up lessons according to data protection criteria.

Fake news and the associated disinformation of citizens has increased extremely in recent years. The Corona pandemic in particular, with its conspiracy narratives and health-damaging false reports, has highlighted the importance of digital literacy.

The whole of Europe has set itself the task of "combating disinformation".
KNOW FAKE wants to make an important contribution to this. Because media literacy is more important today than ever before. Media competence includes:

• the analytical examination of forms of media communication, e.g. news in social networks
• the promotion of critical thinking
• reflecting on the different interests, content, selection and form of conveying information
• teaching practical strategies to see through mechanisms of manipulation and to be able to discuss them better.

Since 2018, the EU has been taking united action against disinformation with an action plan. Democracy needs education that promotes the democratic competences of citizens - the ability to criticise and judge, participation skills, maturityEveryone is needed in the fight against disinformation. All over the world, people are confronted with an increasing spread of false information that destabilises democratic institutions and and undermine the confidence of citizens in them. Combating misinformation and disinformation, as well as foreign interference and influence on elections, requires different political countermeasures.

KNOW FAKE starts with the European Action Plan for Democracy and the fight against disinformation and with its results brings media literacy directly into families in the form of this educational project. Families bring together people who are informed by different sources of information and often get into heated arguments about it. Especially in the last two years of the pandemic, this has not infrequently led to divisions, exclusions and separations.

Families will be empowered with KNOW FAKE and will be given a playful opportunity to learn about and analyse the background and functioning of Fake News and its principles with a modern analogue card game (multilingual).

The results and the dissemination of KNOW FAKE will strengthen families as a place of learning for digital literacy.

The innovative result of KNOW FAKE will also be disseminated as a possibility for school and extracurricular education in youth institutions and can be used in a low-threshold way.

The multiplier events will bring parents, educators and policy makers together and disseminate KNOW FAKE. Political decision-makers will receive an impulse paper.

The main objective of KNOW FAKE is to educate and raise awareness, build resilience and build media literacy with regard to disinformation on the net. Media literacy represents a central key competence for lifelong learning and includes not only knowledge and practical skills but also the safe reflective use of digital media.

Our project aims to promote digital literacy and specifically educate about disinformation on the net.

Detailed objectives are:

• Raising awareness of the importance of digital literacy with a focus on fake news and disinformation.
• To draw attention to a critical and reflective handling to information on the internet.
• Addressing a broad target group with a view to families.

Project results are:

• Development and production of an analogue card game KNOW FAKE with digital elements in 5 European languages.
• Development and production of a handbook KNOW FAKE with digital elements in 6 European languages - with didactic-methodical accompanying material for families and educators.
• Multiplier events in each partner country
• Presentation of the results of KNOW FAKE at the Didakta in March 2024 in Cologne.
• KNOW FAKE website with all results in 6 European languages

In its analogue card game, the accompanying booklet and the app, KNOW FAKE will offer playful learning opportunities for:

• a critically-reflective handling of news on the net
• strategies of research (source checking)
• Knowledge about media forms (recognising and understanding staging and distortion effects)
• Knowledge about online networks (working methods, quality criteria, forms of presentation, interests)
• News analysis
• Strategies for discussing false news and conspiracy narratives in the family
• A web-based app that digitally supports and complements the analogue card game.

EDUCOMMART is, among other things, the lead organisation responsible for the implementation of the project dissemination through a social media campaign and the general documentation and evaluation of the dissemination results

• Systeme in Bewegung e.V., DE
• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE, Lernwerkstatt Europa e.V., BG
• PCO – Poklicni center Obala, SI
• EDUCOMMART – Meeting Point for Creative Education, GR
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, AT

Metaverse is a virtual world that we can enter using a set of technological and digital devices. It is a place where you have the ability and the power to do things that you could never do in the real world without leaving home. Why not use this metaphorical power to improve what our new future will be, allowing us all to arrive equally prepared, leaving no one behind and with all the tools we need? This path of the preparation process is called 'Metaversing'. Through this first year of cooperation, our Network (made up of NGOs from different European countries, which support European youth policies) will work in one direction to develop activities that empower, encourage and enrich Youth with new opportunities and ways to participate and take on an active citizenship role in society, in such a way that the European year of Youth does not end in 2022.

It is evident that the world in which we live is characterized by continuous and rapid changes, the technological revolution that characterizes the 21st century, is more than a reality, it is already virtuality, and it is called ‘the metaverse’.

The main objective of this project is to bring young people closer to the virtual worlds, and we, together with the members of our Network, will provide young people with digital skills and make them better citizens for what is to come, the metaverse.

In this new virtual reality, attention to the environment, climate change, inclusion, and gender equality is no longer just an idea, but these concepts must be understood and applied to everyday life, especially for those who are called ‘digital natives’, the young people.

The cooperation Network created for the development of the ‘Metaversing’ project brings into focus Youth so that they achieve survive the changing world ability, which will help them understand, react, and survive in the new virtual world, by reducing in this new world, discrimination, violence, and non-environmentally friendly actions, in short, a better world.

This project will carry out a number of activities, among them:

• Offer a virtual classroom in the metaverse in order to have an international meeting.
• Interviews from young people to adult people: The idea of this SPECIFIC activity is to celebrate the Day of Solidarity and Cooperation between Generations (that takes places on 29th April). Young people will communicate with older people by interviewing them.
• Inclusive trip to Strasbourg City: A trip to Strasbourg, awarded as best accessible city in Europe at "The Access City Award", an event organized by the European Commission together with the European Disability Forum.
• Participants will take photos in public and private spaces about inclusive facts, and the values they represent, which they would like to be present and shared in the virtual world
• Virtual coffee: The idea of this SPECIFIC online activity is that it takes place in the VR space created ad-hoc, so it will be a virtual debate in which young people from different countries can talk with their avatars in a relaxed way while having a coffee from home.
• Immersion of Youth workers in the metaverse: The idea of this AD-HOC activity consists of providing Youth Workers with digital skills so that they are able to work in virtual spaces with Youth, adapting and designing the virtual space (as their job stage) according to de activity that they want to develop with young people. First of all, they will be introduced about how to create their own avatar.

• UDRUZENJE EU4ALL (NIS, SERBIA)
• LINC SOCIETA’ COOPERATIVA SOCIALE A RESPONSABILITA’ LIMITATAO. N.L.U.S. (Tuscany, Italy)
• FORM2YOU (SINTRA, PORTUGAL)
• ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL E DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL RAQUEL LOMBARDI
• EDUCOMMART (EGALEO, GREECE)
• VAEV RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
• ASOCIATA DIRECT (BUCHAREST, ROMANIA)
• SYSTEME IN BEWEGUNG E. V., WINSEN, GERMANY
• FUNDACJA BĄDŹ AKTYWNY. (WARSAW, POLAND)
• УЧЕБНА РАБОТИЛНИЦА ЕВРОПА
• SCIENTIA NOVA (KAVADARCI, MACEDONIA)