"The family is the smallest system in European society, the starting point for democracy-building and social change, and therefore deserves special support. From our counselling and educational work we know that families repeatedly seek help with similar issues, that almost everyone is ""stuck"" in the same areas. We have asked ourselves whether this is the case everywhere in the European Community, whether, for example, Greek and Austrian parents have the same problems. And what the solutions to these problems look like with our partners. Which ways of good communication, of handling money, of (media) education, of balancing family and career have parents found in other European countries? What suggestions can we get from other organisations working with parents and children, how can they improve our work? In order to find out, we would like to exchange experiences in a consortium of DE, AT, BG, ES and GR and thus further professionalize our work. Experience has shown that many parents are already relieved when they realise that they are not alone with their problems. Therefore, we will disseminate the results of the project via an online article describing how family issues are dealt with in a European comparison and pointing out various solutions. This complements the main objective, an additional professionalisation of our organisations. The direct target group are thus the employees of the organisations, who through their work will carry the results further into other organisations and into the indirect target group of parents and families. Thus not only the individual organisations benefit from the European exchange, also the families can get a sense that other people in Europe feel the same way as themselves, the feeling for the European community. In previous projects in which the individual organisations have worked, everyone had the impression that ""Europe works best on a small scale"" - direct human contact, and where this is not possible, the knowledge that families are similar across Europe, leads to mutual understanding and sympathy across national borders, which today threaten to re-strengthen. In a follow-up project, the consortium is planning to further exploit the similarities and solutions that have been found."

"Parents of all cultures are interested in ensuring that their children can develop well, learn successfully at school and grow up healthy. Every year in Europe, over 3.7 million children are born into a densely populated media world, whose development involves an unstoppable media influence. From our point of view, this is the greatest challenge in the history of education, combined with a constant task of preventive debate. The European Parliament is also aware of this; it has already called for 2012: ""to exhaust all possibilities in protecting children in the digital world and to systematically train parents"". Parents are therefore the direct target group in @home. The need for European parental education with regard to their own media competence, but especially their media education, is growing across borders. Children and young people today are not only at home earlier and earlier in digital media and find more and more complex online worlds and possibilities. It should also be emphasised that, unlike in the real world, consumption is beyond parental control and parents today often have little media knowledge and media competence. Children quickly realise that they are superior to their parents in this area. A family problem develops in view of the failure of resigned parents to set limits and the increasing helplessness experienced, which as a permanent field of conflict has an impact on family life. Although this increasing need for parental education exists, the form of support that parents need seems to be changing. Parents' evenings at schools are declining and online seminar rooms are in demand. Why? There is no need to travel to school and additional childcare does not have to be financed and organised. Anonymity is given, which can be helpful especially for sensitive topics. Digital learning materials also have the advantage of being able to respond to the increasingly different prerequisites, experiences and interests of learners. With digital media learning can be made even more active and individual. Parental education in Europe today should therefore increasingly take place freely, i.e. in non-institutionalised contexts and, since the possibility of learning with new media, also independently of time and place. With the implementation of @home, involving politics, the community and parents themselves, we in a consortium of AT, BG, GR, SI and DE are facing this sustainable educational task with a double strategy, which on the one hand builds on the teaching of instrumental-qualifying skills, and on the other hand uses above all a critically reflected approach. The declared aim of ""@home"" is to combine both and integrate them into the social context of media education in the family. The following results were achieved in the implementation:1. systematic exploration as a needs analysis: what form of support do parents in Europe need, and on what issues? 2. a multilingual digital parents' consultation in the form of a web-based APP ""You, Media and Me - YouMMe"" in 7 languages including English with the following features: - 12 educational films to support the parents' own critically reflected handling of media - Working materials to teach basic skills. Originally, a monthly meeting of experts was also planned, which could not take place as planned due to the special situation during the Covid 19 pandemic. Instead, an additional ""Dictionary"" was created in which important terms of media education in the Länder were collected and explained to parents. 3. monthly question memory: frequently asked questions from parents, answered by the team 4. The originally planned five stakeholder round tables and the final symposium in Brussels could not take place as intended. They were partly conducted virtually, the final symposium was adapted and held as a hybrid event in Graz. The research situation, the view and the experience in Europe are different, therefore we need transnational learning in professional exchange, in search of possible solutions. With the implementation of ""@home"" we are actively shaping the European cross-sectional topic: ""Media Literacy Education"" through interpersonal, intercultural and social competences in Europe.Since this educational topic is still very young due to rapid growth, we have a lot of catching up to do in Europe in the field of prevention. A political project advisory board under the direction of the patron Eckhart Pols will open doors and ensure the transfer of all results in the project. In this way, we will ensure that this social education topic has a lasting effect on families."

"<< Objectives >>""Cyber Bubble"" aims to promote key aspects of digital literacy. We want to focus on the handling of data and information sources so that fake news can be identified and users can be sensitized to the handling of their own and other people's data in their usage behavior. Especially emotionalized people believe devious information more quickly and take little time to reflect on what they have read, but this is exactly what they need to filter information in a factual and truthful manner.<< Implementation >>*Analog experience installation with digital elements in 3 European cities, which dissolves the viewer distance through interactive parts with an insight gained directly through experience.*Adapt existing working material from interdisciplinary workshops on fake news and data protection in a country-specific way.* Conduct a social media campaign* create a multilingual website* design the analog installation into a virtual tour<< Results >>The project ""Cyber Bubble"" realizes:a) an experiential installation in the form of a dome tent that imparts knowledge and promotes personal reflection.b) working material for teaching digital competenceb) a multilingual website with a virtual tour of the installation and background information in English, Greek, German and Bulgarian.e) The website is designed in such a way that it can be expanded linguistically,"

<< Objectives >>KNOW FAKE will contribute to digital literacy in families and adult education. With the help of an analog card game and the accompanying handbook, KNOW FAKE succeeds in implementing the EU action plan against disinformation, educating and building media literacy. The pandemic and currently the Ukraine war have produced a lot of disinformation. That is why critical thinking is needed. KNOW FAKE makes an important contribution in everyday family life.<< Implementation >>- Development and production of an analog card game KNOW FAKE with digital elements in 6 European languages.- Development and production of a manual 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 Didakta 03.2024 in Cologne.- KNOW FAKE website with all results in 6 European languages.<< Results >>- An analog card game on the topic of disinformation with digital elements for media literacy education.- It is produced in 6 European languages and can be expanded at any time.- Manual for the game with pedagogical-didactic impulses for parents and teachers. Content: background information on recognizing fake news and disinformation, knowledge about analyzing social media: working methods, professional codes, quality criteria, forms of presentation, research strategies, etc.- MV's

"Today Pornography is part of the life of the youth. Research shows that young people (despite existing legal regulations) are also able to access illegal pornographic content, and almost half of all surveyed adolescents regularly consume them (Altstötter 2006; eNASCO, 2015). In addition, the share of unwanted contacts with pornography is increasing (Grimm 2010, S. 15). If children type the harmless word ""disgusting"" in Google, they will see pornographic content. Larger Europe-wide studies and meta-analyzes lead to the conclusion that the confrontation with Internetpornography is one of the most important online risks in Europe (Hasebrink et al., 2009). There is therefore no doubt that the wide range of possibilities and the easy access to pornographic content involve risks and unsettling the adolescents in their sexual socialization. Europe has therefore already reacted and provided protection filters and classification tools for user-generated content, as the project ""You rate it"" shows. However, since filters (1) can be circumvented easily, (2) do not work in every case and (3) are not sufficient (even if necessary) to address this problem area of Internet use adequately, a cooperation between non-state actors is of great importance at this point. Due to the problem, which is similar across Europe but at the same time characterized by differing experiences and research efforts, we need a transnational learning through professional exchange in order to be able to establish professional capacity for action. In contrast to other topics relevant to education, we have to deal with the special feature that the communication with the parents and the corresponding development of competences in dealing with it usually does not take place, the subject is tabooed. Accompanying and assisting in case of specific problems or uncertainty can therefore usually not take place within the framework of the parent's home.Therefore, professional actors are needed who are outside the family context to acquire pornography competencies and to find contact persons. The social work group was the target occupational group of this project because it deals with these current questions and problems in the fields of open youth work and prevention and can fill this gap professionally. At the same time, there is a huge need for further education and training both in terms of current developments and legal regulations on pornography in Europe, as well as on the respective individual professional self-understanding of the youth workers. We were able to close this gap with ""PSSSST"" and create a tailor-made offer for social work. A consortium of seven partners from 6 European countries involved in educational workhas taken on this task and, based on the results of the meta-study, developed material for working with children and young people. It is available on the project homepage www.psssst.eu.With the help of this material, the planned double strategy can be implemented: a) the teaching of instrumental-qualifying skills, personal and institutional, and b) active-reflected discussion. The following results serve this double strategy.1. pornography competence: definition and promotion / training modules to promote pornography competence2. discussion impulses to promote professional intervention3. a handbook for philosophizing with children and teenagers.4. legal enlightenment/legal framework conditions5) ""Without TABU"" game for direct work with children and adolescents as an additional product6. guide for action in case of suspicion of sexual assault7. country-specific network cardThe results can be accessed and used free of charge in 6 European languages on www.psssst.eu .Politics could also be included from the very beginning. The protection of children and young people in the digital world is a pan-European concern.With the involvement of politicians, we have succeeded in initiating an active political discussion, above all in the multiplier events. Thus, political table groups were formed in each MA, which gratefully accepted the position paper!"