The new communication paradigm, generated by media convergence, has no National borders.
For that reason, it is momentous to promote the creation of synergies among different countries and actors and interchange of practices to develop media literacy.Our project aims at promoting media literacy and critical thinking skills which raise awareness of media manipulation and providing the participants with the knowledge and power for efficient and safe use of media outlets.To solve the media literacy problems, the coordinator (Lithuania) decided to collaborate with 5 schools from Portugal,Croatia,Turkey,Spain,Italy, which attach importance to media literacy and conducting studies to tackle with the problem to enable pupils to become more conscious media consumers having the ability of critically thinking. All partner schools have some initiatives at local level but there are few cases where a local activity has been extended to all the nations or outside national borders. By dint of this project, media literacy promoting activities will have European stardom, which will increase their visibility and effectiveness.The target audience of the project is students, teachers, parents, local people, neighbouring schools, local authorities, media itself, policy makers. In total 72 teachers who constantly strive for their own professional development and 144 students aged between 14-17 will participate in 6LTTs.Each LTT will serve the purposes of attaining the project goals.Thanks to 1st LTT in Lithuania, participants will enhance critical thinking and media literacy to strengthen democracy and counter manipulation, propaganda and disinformation as cited in Erasmus+ program guide and will tell the difference between professional news-gathering and amateur rumour-mongering. The 2nd LTT in Portugal will enable participants to cope with the manipulations by ads and to be judicious consumers. The 3rd LTTA in Italy will enable the participants to access and interpret the right information thanks to their increasing experience in media literacy.That will facilitate the acceptance of cultural difference, diminish racist behavior and develop intercultural skills.The 4th LTT in Croatia will teach them to differentiate different media outlets.In virtue of 5th LTT in Spain, participants will develop skills in media production and subsequently develop their initiatives.Moreover, rather than just being external spectators and information recipients, they will become content makers and learn to reach info through different means. The 6th LTT in Turkey will enable students to become conscious of different forms of online hate speech and their reasons and effects.These objectives will be achieved through outdoor/indoor learning-teaching, scaffolding, problem solving, CLIL, ICT,Inquiry based and Cooperative Learning, Textual and Visual Analyses, Think-pair-share-technique all of which are based on interactive teaching and student-centered methodologies.By the virtues of LTTAs and mentioned techniques and methodologies, we aim at attaining the following concrete results-6 issues of e magazines about LTTAs-1 e-book covering all LTTs-Digital and ceramic version of project logo-An action plan about media literacy-A podcast named digital footprint to enable students to be safe and conscious on the internet-A podcast about offering tips to protect users from cyber bullying and hate speech-Brochures about fake news-News reports and newspaper about LTTs-Slogans, mottos and bookmarks about media literacy-Seminars about raising media literacy for pupils, teachers and parents-Participants will act independently and replicate what they learnt further in their settings; thus they will be multipliers who can contribute to raising media literacy in their their school, region, country, through EuropeIn the long run, participants’ skills for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media will increase and in virtue of our project, the participants will raise their literacy, life and learning skills which are caterpillars of 21st century education. Since students and teachers will use ICT in some project outputs, their digital skills will improve. In the long run, we will go on organizing a “media literacy” week every year.The concrete results will be available on TwinSpace, YouTube Channel, project's websites, social media platforms for everyone interested in media literacy.The e-book will provide the sustainability of our project as well as being a resource from which all our stakeholders will benefit.Moreover, our project with its results will present implications to curriculum designer to integrate media literacy into their national curriculum.Each partner school will prepare an action plan in which we will organize activities, seminars, meetings, etc.to train students on media literacy.Thus, we will ensure that action plan’s being our organizational culture, which is the hardest evidence of our project’s benefits being long lasting