Get it Right is a project implemented in partnership between Romanian Youth Movement for Democracy (RYMD), Donegal Youth Service (Ireland), and Inter Alia (Greece). The Project focus is on media literacy and providing an opportunity for young people to examine the concept of Fake News. The main aims of Get it Right have been to develop skills and competencies of youth workers in the field of media literacy; to cultivate new abilities, such as critical thinking, text interpretation/analysis, responsible use of social media, with a view to raise awareness among people from the European countries about the importance of media literacy. In doing so, the project involved hundreds of trainers, youth workers and young people who participated in the development of the methods described below. Spanning 28 months, from 1st September 2018 to 31st December 2020, going through the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the project has involved participants from Romania, Greece and Ireland and it was structured starting from the needs of the beneficiaries, going to developing, testing and promoting the final result.In the first part of the project, the three partner organizations have realized a field research in order to find out media literacy education practices, the online behavior of the young people, and the main risks they are facing when they use the internet. In the second part, the course was developed in accordance with the findings of the research, this phase going side-by-side with testing the educational methods developed. 18 trainers, youth workers and youth leaders (6 from each participating country) have been informed in media literacy and taught to use the developed course, and a total of 194 young people aged 14 to 35 participated held experimental laboratories in order to test and review it, with special attention being accorded to the young people from with lower opportunities, such as young people from rural areas, young people with health problems or LGBT. More than 20000 people were informed through the online channels about the projects' activities, results and learned about became more aware of the importance of the evaluation of the information using relevant strategies.This Media Literacy non-formal learning guide is the main outcome of the Get it Right project. The course handbook offers a selection of 32 non-formal learning methods to enhance media education among young people. The descriptions of the methods provide the duration, group size, materials needed, concrete steps to do the work questions for Debriefing & Reflection, Learning Outcomes, and other additional resources. We hope that the course handbook will help trainers, youth workers, teachers and any interested person or organization working in media education to contribute to the raising of the level of critical thinking of future generations.

The primary aim of the pilot project is to create structures which will enable young people, 18-25, who have been identified as being at risk of becoming marginalised through non participation in both formal and informal modes of training and education to re-engage with the world of work and education. This pilot project with three EU partners, Ireland, Finland and Italy, is intended as a first phase in a longer project which will see the development of an accredited programme which has been codesigned by the youth participants working in partnership with the service delivery professionals to create pathways into employment and further educational opportunities. The project ethos is grounded in the principles of inclusive participation and empowering young people to play a full and active role in shaping the decisions that impact on their lives. This will involve the creation of learning pedagogies and teaching methodologies which will employ an innovative approach of codesign whereby the young people will have been involved in a real and meaningful way at every stage of the programme, from programme development through design to delivery and assessment.The pilot project comprises the following activities:1. The development of a suite of protocols to underpin the selection and recruitment of young people who will participate in the pilot phase. These protocols will include a complete project overview contextualised to reflect the needs of targeted subgroupings, guidelines which will frame the parameters of the project and provide loose structures within which the group’s activities can occur. 2. The recruitment of the participants employing strategies which reflect current best practice This will reflect the diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds, education capabilities and cultural identities which exist in the targeted youth population. 3. The development a work programme for the young people based on self-reflective learning principles.4. Delivering the work programme to the youth panel employing proven youth work practices in an informal learning environment.5. The development of a suite of protocols to underpin the selection and recruitment of professionals who will participate in the pilot phase. This will reflect the diverse range stakeholders who are active in both the employment of young people and the delivery of training and educational services to the targeted youth population. 6. The recruitment of the professionals which will involve discussions with representative bodies, professional associations and state agencies.7. The development of a work programme which will reflect the complexities and challenges faced by the teaching and training professions in engaging with young people who have not successfully participated in training or education schemes.8. The organising of a series of national workshops which will allow the Youth Panels and the Key stakeholders to engage in a process of discussion and code sign.9. The facilitation of a trans-European exchange which will bring together young people and professionals from the three partner countries to share the learning from activities at each national level.NB We have not altered any of the text which was pre-entered!