About the project
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we interact with media, challenging our understanding of digital spaces. In today’s fast-changing digital environment, it is essential that youth workers equip themselves with the skills and knowledge to navigate the intersection of AI, media literacy, and digital safety.
This training provided tools to explore the positive potential and risks of AI in youth work, foster critical media literacy, and develop strategies for safe and effective online engagement. Through workshops, study visits, and expert-led discussions, participants learned how to critically approach digital technologies, address online risks like cyberbullying, and build engaging virtual communities.
This non-formal learning activity was part of the Erasmus+ Accredited projects in the field of youth. Information about European Dialogue’s accreditation is also available on the Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform.
Objectives:
- Help youth workers to gain or improve competences they need on their path to become digitally literate citizens in a rapidly changing world of AI and other digital technologies.
- Provide youth workers with insights into the newest trends, materials, and methods when it comes to responsible use of those technologies in non-formal education.
- Raise youth workers‘ awareness of various opportunities, but also challenges (e.g. privacy, ethics).
- Support participants to be ready for said opportunities and challenges and to be able to inform and empower others in this context.
About the activity
March 17-23, 2025 in Hrnčiarovce nad Parnou, Slovakia
The training was designed for motivated youth workers, trainers, facilitators, mentors, and NGO staff members aged 18 or older who were fluent or advanced in English. The participants who attended were suitable for this training as they were eager to explore AI’s impact on youth work, enhance their media literacy skills, and learn practical digital safety measures.
Participants acquired a variety of competences to address contemporary challenges related to human rights in the digital space. During the program, they:
- Understood the legal boundaries of free speech and learned how to navigate the complex area where freedom of expression meets respect and responsible communication.
- Gained insights into international human rights protection mechanisms through presentations and workshops focused on their relevance in the digital age.
- Learned strategies to counter online hate speech, cyberbullying, and digital harassment, ensuring a safer digital environment for all.
- Developed conflict management skills tailored to the digital space, addressing disputes and fostering respectful interactions online.
- Mastered the principles of digital safety and netiquette to support young people in their online interactions and behaviours.
- Explored the concept of „my digital self,“ understanding the rights and responsibilities we hold as digital citizens in the 21st century.
Final materials created by participants
The participants of the training were asked to create videos for the topic of AI in Youth Work and digitalization. All of them were randomly split into smaller groups for their group work. The process was guided with the facilitators in two ways. Firstly, parts of the workshops during the week focused on media production and how we should and could show these on social media. Then, in the last two working days of the training course, the facilitators were hosting editorial meetings with the groups of participants in order to gather feedback and improve their work. In those meetings, the facilitators also provided technical support for editing. Microphones and equipment were provided by European Dialogue.
All group works were presented in the last session of the training course by participants among their peers.
Group 1:
Ethical and unethical use of AI
Group 2:
Digital safety – How to be connected on public Wi-Fi
Digital safety – Protecting yourself from hacking
Group 3:
How to use correct prompts for AI video generation
Group 4:
Best AI platforms for academics
How to use canva for teachers/academics
How to use Google’s NotebookLM for studying
Group 5:
Resources shared by trainers and organisers
Impressions from the training
You can check the pictures on our social media – gallery on Instagram
Post on LinkedIn published by one of the participants about summary of project and fact-checking
European Dialogue / Európsky Dialóg, o.z.
Financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme, KA1 – Mobility of young people for accredited organisations, through its Slovak National Agency – NIVAM.
Participants of the training can receive LinkedIn certificate. If you are one of them, please write to m.maska@europskydialog.eu for details that are needed to complete the certificate.
