🇷🇴 Erasmus+ Training Course in Romania 🎮 Media Wise Youth Workers — Media Literacy, Disinformation & Fact-Checking Through Gamification 📱MEDIA WISE YOUTH WORKERS

🔑 Key Information

Activity ⭐️ Title

MEDIA WISE YOUTH WORKERS

Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location

Training Course

13-18 July 2026 | Targoviste, Romania

❗️What Is This Training About?

MEDIA WISE YOUTH WORKERS is a training course on media literacy education dediacted to youth workers.

ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity

Project Description

The training course aims to strengthen the competences of youth workers in media literacy, critical thinking, and countering disinformation in their work with young people. It seeks to equip participants with practical tools, methods, and educational approaches to help youth critically analyze media content, identify manipulation, and promote responsible digital engagement among youth.

Objectives

1. To develop participants’ understanding of media literacy concepts, disinformation, and the influence of social media algorithms.

2. To improve youth workers’ critical thinking and fact-checking skills, including identifying stereotypes, bias, and manipulation techniques in media content.

3. To explore and test non-formal education methods and gamification approaches for promoting media literacy among young people.

4. To support participants in designing, testing, and disseminating media literacy activities that can be implemented in their local youth work contexts.

Target Group

The Training Course will gather together 25 youth workers from Erasmus+ Programme countries.

The course will primarily be aimed at participants over 22 years old (there is no upper age limit), who are part of NGOs, youth centres, or educational institutions and are active as youth workers.

Requirements for Participants

Youth workers actively working with young people in NGOs, with at least 12 months of experience in this position
Trainers, facilitators, and educators involved in non-formal education
Age 22+ (no upper age limit)
Participants with experience in youth work or strong motivation to develop in this field
Youth workers working with young people with fewer opportunities
Youth workers able to organise follow-up activities after the project
Advanced level of English is required

Methodology

The Training Course will be based on the principles of gamification and non-formal education (NFE). Gamification is the process of using game elements in a non-game context.

The NFE methodologies are varied, participatory, and learner-centred. They include a mix of individual and group learning activities and encourage participants to learn from each other.

The workshops will approach the following themes:

Media literacy
Disinformation
Biases
Stereotypes
Manipulation techniques in media
Participants will learn to create game-based activities focused on developing media literacy skills among young people.

How do you apply?

Read complete information available in the Infopack
Fill in the application form: https://forms.gle/hsYq7gc1kogi4VGNA
Deadline for applications: 03 June 2026

Training overview

This Training Course is

for 25 participants

from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries

and recommended for

Youth workers, Youth leaders

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Asociatia Be You (Youth NGO)

📥 Contact

Contact for questions:

Ilona Balint

E-Mail:

Phone: +40775307439

💶 Costs

Participation fee

No participation fee

Accommodation and food

The project is funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ programme. Meals, accommodation and activities are fully covered.

Travel reimbursement

Regarding the Erasmus+ rules, we are able to cover travel costs up to:

Between 100 and 499 KM: 211 EUR per participant - Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia.

Between 500 and 1999 KM: 309 EUR per participant- Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Netherlands, Hungary, Turkiye, Liechtenstein.

Between 2000 and 2999 KM: 395 EUR per participant - Finland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Norway.

📜 Certificate

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

https://youthworkshub.org/15122