Media and Information Literacy (MIL) are essential skills in the digital age. Young people, and all other generations, have to evaluate the authenticity of every piece of information they access, across multiple channels and through all different kinds of sources. The need for such skills has become even more apparent with the flourishing of disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has only reinforced the project consortium’s certitude that this kind of project is needed more than ever. The ultimate aim of this project is to provide youth (information) workers with resources and tools to carry out MIL related activities with young people, to equip them with the necessary skills to navigate the information that they come into contact with every day. MedYIa will be need-based, as it will focus on the needs of the youth sector and of young people themselves; this will be more detailed in Intellectual Output 1 (IO1 state of play: survey on young people’s MIL needs and an Open Dialogue Day with professionals based on the needs identified in the survey). This first phase will lead to a deeper understanding of the subject, an identification of missing skills and gaps in the sector, an identification of existing tools and practices, and what types of tools would be most useful for those working with young people. The survey will be widely disseminated in at least the three languages ​​of the project partners (French, German and English). The final report will provide recommendations to decision-makers, institutional bodies and professionals in youth work and youth information work.Once the results of the state of play have been analysed, the project consortium will work on creating an interactive online toolbox (IO2), which will be full of MIL resources and tools, grouped and sorted by theme for a simple and easy navigation. This interactive toolbox will be publicly available, and regularly updated. It will gather resources in French, German and English for a wider outreach, and it will be unique as it will not just have all kinds of resources and activities listed; they will be carefully selected, standardised and grouped by theme. 3 partners will organise a training day in their region / country / community intended for youth information professionals and educators. In one day, the participants will discover the toolbox in a fun and participative way that leads to open and constructive discussions, compiles feedback to improve it, and facilitates its use among professionals working in the field. Participants will then be able to deliver the training, which will ensure a multiplier effect. This activity is aimed at professionals who work in the field directly with young people. A day will also be organised for young people, to ensure that the resources are useful and relevant to them, and to compile their feedback to better adapt the tools. Their feedback will also help to begin creating the next part of the project. The project partners will create a video tutorial that will cover some MIL theory and basics (IO3). It will introduce the topic to youth information professionals and demonstrate how to use the tools and resources available on the platform. The online toolbox will showcase existing tools and adapt them to the needs of the target group. The idea will be to optimise on what has already been created in this domain, while providing a theoretical and deeper understanding of the topic. Where possible, resources will provide options for carrying out activities through digital youth work. Finally, a multiplier event will be organised in Brussels at the end of the project targeted at youth information professionals, youth workers, educators, youth organisations, young people, professional youth networks, political bodies, organisations working in the MIL field, and any other interested party. It will showcase what has been produced in the framework of the project to the target group and other stakeholders outside of the project partnership (e.g. other countries, other organisations). It will highlight the importance of media and information literacy and youth information, as well as the need to support youth professionals through training, and access to tools and resources in these fields. Equipping professionals and multipliers, such as youth organisations, will help to ensure that young people can develop the critical thinking and skills necessary to navigate the information landscape, and contribute to producing and sharing digital content responsibly.

“GLOBERS: Global Learning to Overcome Barriers Encouraging Respect and Solidarity” aims to create an enabling environment for global citizenship education in the context of inter and transcontinental migration processes and to build capacity of the organizations involved in international volunteering mobility on global level. The project promotes international volunteering mobility as a pathway on raising active and global citizenship and boosting understanding of the rights deriving from it and the European values in general. GLOBERS is focused on involvement of young people with fewer opportunities in volunteering activities, it contributes to the new EU Youth Strategy in particular to increasing participation in cross-border learning mobility and solidarity under Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps with an emphasis on those with fewer opportunities” and “Developing and disseminating practical toolkits for quality youth work” [COM(2018) 269 final]. The proposal fosters cross-sectorial cooperation and builds capacity between organizations from Europe, Asia and South America active in the field youth participation and volunteering in order to boost youth and in particular youth with fewer opportunities to becoming active global citizens. The specific objectives of GLOBERS are: - build capacity of the partnership in the field of European Solidarity Corps, international volunteering and non-formal learning activities that promote global and active citizenship education;- support peer youth organizations in recreating activities on GCE for their target groups thanks to the handbook created and disseminated as project output;- reinforce youth workers’ skills from partner and program countries in the field of management of European projects, global citizenship education and youth participation, with particular regard to human and migrants rights and sustainable development, through the exchange of best practices and creating workshops’ agenda;- create quality conditions for offering 9 volunteering mobility activities to young people with fewer opportunities in order to support them with reinforcing transversal skills, improving personal civic and social competences, foster intercultural learning and employability potential;- increase awareness about global citizenship in the participating communities throughout volunteers’ workshops and on global level throughout the online postcard competition, foster a better understanding of migration as a natural process in global community, promote empathy and solidarity; - overall to promote global citizenship, active citizenship, European values, spirit of volunteering and non-formal learning in partners’ communities;In order to achieve its aims, GLOBERS foresees 2 mobility of youth workers who will develop the agenda of the workshops about GCE and 9 cross-continental volunteering mobilities where volunteers will conduct above mentioned workshops for children and youth in hosting community.