Training course on Media Literacy

Training course for youth workers on Media and Internet Literacy

26-31 March 2017, Riga, Latvia

The aim of the training course was to develop media literacy and Internet competences of youth workers, i.e. provide them skills necessary for effective use of mass media and Internet in their work on combating intolerance and stereotyping and on promotion tolerance.

The main themes of the course were media literacy, manipulation and stereotyping in mass media; development of critical thinking; creation of media texts; Internet tools, promotion of tolerance and combating hatred and stereotypes.