Mind Over Screens – Empowering Youth in the Digital World
Mind Over Screens is an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Field of Youth -project that aims to strengthen young people’s ability to navigate the digital world safely, responsibly and confidently. The project also supports youth workers by providing practical tools, educational resources and innovative methods for promoting media literacy, digital citizenship and online safety.
The project is coordinated by YouNet (Italy) and brings together partner organisations Rebus (Albania), Youth for Equality (Slovakia), Svitac (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Mladiinfo(Montenegro). In Finland, the project is implemented by Juvenia, the Youth Research and Development Centre at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk).
Project objectives
Mind Over Screens addresses the opportunities and challenges of young people’s digital lives by strengthening:
- digital citizenship and participation
- media and digital literacy
- critical thinking and responsible online behaviour
- online safety, privacy and cybersecurity awareness
- digital well-being
- young people’s ability to recognise and respond to online risks, such as misinformation, cyberbullying, online scams and harmful digital content.
The project also enhances the competences of youth workers, educators and other youth professionals, enabling them to better support young people in developing safe and responsible digital practices.
Project outputs
The project develops a wide range of open educational resources for young people, youth workers, educators and other professionals working with youth. These include practical guides, training materials, podcasts, workshops and learning activities covering topics such as media literacy, digital citizenship, online safety and digital well-being.
All project materials are freely available and published in English as well as in the languages of the partner countries.
Juvenia’s role
Juvenia contributes to the development of educational materials, international cooperation and the implementation of training activities and workshops in Finland. During the project, media literacy workshops have been organised for young people, youth work students and youth professionals to strengthen their skills in navigating digital environments safely, critically and responsibly.
Learn more
All project materials are freely available on the project website:
https://mindoverscreens.eu/
