CYBER CITIZENS: Intergenerational and Intercultural Media Education and Digital Citizenship

<< Background >>Project Cyber Citizen is small scall partnership that brought together three organisations working with adult learners from France, Germany and Luxembourg to upskill them on civil participation by sharing good practices and strategies. The CYBER CITIZENS project yields as its result a platform that conglomerates different sources of information across the EU and showed adult trainers how to utilize this platform to promote digital active citizenship through a Learning, Teaching, Training Activity that was held in Luxembourg: The ZEMUS platform created exhibited in a series of workshops targeting cross-generational audiences including adult and young learners. Improving the competences of educators and other adult education staff. The project´s priority developed the competences of the organizations´ members with the goal to supplement and improve the levels of adult education in France, Germany and Luxembourg with a cross-generational focus. Priority was on strengthening the supporting role the adult education staff has in motivating, guiding and advising learners about civic participation and the use of various digital media platforms. << Objectives >>The concrete objectives of the CYBER CITIZENS project were to: - Promote educational continuity; - Promote civic engagement throughout life; - Fight fake news with an innovative news platform; - Promote cultural diversity and living together; - Raising awareness of journalistic narration and cultural sensitivities vis-à-vis various societal issues; - Support the digital transition of young people, students, retirees, and civil society volunteers by facilitating access to information; - Democratize access to the media.<< Implementation >>The activities implemented during the project includes:a.Project Management Activities: These activities started with the preparation of documents related to enable seamless cooperation between the partners. b.Optimising the Zemus Search Engine: The developed Zemus search engine was optimized to curate news in several languages and enable the sharing of information collected by an author who have signed up the news portal. The user is able to search websites in foreign languages by writing key words, the user is also able to create and to edit news editorial according to their preferences. c.The CYBERCITIZEN National Workshops which promoted the values of living together, deconstructing prejudices, and fostering understanding of intercultural relations across borders. The workshop series also acted as a dissemination for the project and to promote good practices across the participating organizations. << Results >>The first result of the project is the optimization of the Zemus Search Engine to help compare news from around. The Project web application was redesigned to enable seamless navigation by the users. The optimized version of ZEMUS offers the following functionalities: a. verification of information, example fake news, and b. the production of press reviews. This result also produced a Guide on how to navigate the website. The second result of the project is the organization of the Learning Teaching and Training Workshop which was held in conjunction with the University of Luxembourg. Here the participants were trained on how to identity fake news and also how to compare news from around the world using the ZEMUS Search Engine. The Third Result is the National workshops that scaled down the training and knowledge received from the LTTA to local participants to broaden the scope of the knowledge and information on fake news and how to compare news from around the world.