Explanatory online dossier with H5P videos for young people about digital democracy, disinformation, civil courage. Comprehensive media-education platform providing practical materials, interactive learning activities, tests, guides and thematic resources that help children and young people use digital media safely, critically and responsibly. Topics include AI, disinformation, digital democracy, online safety, data protection, gaming and sustainability.
Materials designed to teach disinformation, digital source verification and journalistic fact-checking tools. Peer-to-peer digital media literacy resource where teenagers create and use video fact-checks to learn how to identify misinformation, verify sources, investigate images and videos, and critically evaluate social-media content. It includes free lesson plans designed for approximately one school lesson.
Modular media-education Actionkit with interactive exercises about TikTok use, digital wellbeing, hate speech, digital civic courage, misinformation, democracy and critical media consumption. It is designed for young people and can be used in schools, youth work and other educational settings.
Online test for youth to learn about their behaviour to manage and identify digital news content. Interactive digital news literacy test and educational resource that helps young people assess information, recognize misinformation, check facts, understand media systems, and reflect on their own media use. It includes the Newstest, age-specific variants, digital tools, teaching materials, and […]
Online self-learning tool raising awareness about narratives within radical and extremist communication through TikTok. It helps young people recognize, classify and critically reflect on hate speech, disinformation, discriminatory narratives and anti-democratic content on social media. It uses a social-media-style interface and supports digital civic courage and responsible online participation.
An annual global assessment of democratic development, democratic decline and autocratization. The 2026 report analyses democracy through electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative and egalitarian dimensions and examines global trends, autocratizing/ democratizing countries, freedom of expression, media, civil society, elections and checks and balances.
The 2026 World Press Freedom Index compares press freedom in 180 countries and territories, examining the political, legal, economic, sociocultural and safety conditions in which journalists work. The 2026 edition reports the lowest global average score in the Index’s 25-year history, with 52.2% of countries classified as “difficult” or “very serious.”
An annual global research project by Freedom House assessing internet freedom and digital rights across countries. It examines barriers to access, online censorship and content restrictions, surveillance, privacy, freedom of expression, and the use of digital technologies for civic mobilisation. The 2025 edition covers 72 countries.
A Romanian media-education platform developed by the Centre for Independent Journalism (CJI). It provides educational resources and teacher training focused on critical thinking, media literacy, information verification, disinformation, journalism, freedom of expression, algorithms and responsible participation in the digital environment. The broader programme has been implemented in hundreds of Romanian schools.
A UNESCO handbook providing educators and journalism trainers with a structured approach to understanding and teaching fake news, misinformation, disinformation, information disorder, verification and fact-checking. It contains teaching modules covering topics such as digital/ social-media literacy and verification practices.
