Contributes to the development of society, innovation and knowledge.
Help develop measures to counter violence and discrimination.
Supports adults in enhancing skills to promote their professional growth and participation in social and civic life.
Promotes intercultural dialogue among individuals from all parts of the world to build bridges of knowledge and sharing.
Promotes quality and efficiency in education.
Supports and promotes educational activities, training courses and mobility projects aimed at young people.
CESIE ETS is a European center for studies and initiatives based in Palermo, Sicily.
The MEGA consortium over the last two years has worked towards the goal of strengthening as much as possible the critical thinking of individuals, especially young people, who spend a large part of their daily life on social media, exchanging data and getting information.
On 5 and 6 October, MEGA partners met in Vienna and had the opportunity to take stock of the activities so far and discuss the next steps of the project.
MEGA aims to address real problems such as europhobia, fake news and disinformation using informal and playful ways. Learn more about the project training!
On February 9th, we celebrate the Safer Internet Day “Together for a better Internet”. With our projects we want to promote the conscious use of the web and digital civic education, both for young people and for adults, underlining how the web and information technologies can be important in our life, but we must be very careful how use them without incurring in offensive acts and/or be victims of that.
It is not always easy to identify the true news from the false ones. This facts, together with the growing of anti-European movements are more and more frequent to read fake news about Europe and its institutions.
Based on these points, the MEGA project aims to contrast this phenomenon in the context of youth work, in order to informally reach young people from different social backgrounds.