Empowering Educators (O1): Equipping lower and upper secondary school teachers with shared pedagogical frameworks, structured training modules, and common assessment tools to teach critical media and AI literacy seamlessly across subjects.
As They Fake, We Educate: Empowering Students with Critical Media, Multimodal & AI Literacy is an international Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in School Education (KA220-SCH) co-funded by the European Union. Running from September 2026 to August 2028, our project unites six dedicated European partner organizations to address one of the most pressing educational challenges of our digital era: the rapid proliferation of misinformation, deepfakes, and unverified AI-generated content in young people's daily lives.
In today's media-rich environment, students are surrounded by complex digital content that they frequently accept at face value. While young people are digital natives, a critical gap remains between using technology and critically interpreting it. Traditional media literacy methods often fall short when confronting multimodal manipulation—where text, images, audio, and AI algorithms intersect to shape public perception.
WE-EDU bridges this gap. Our vision is to transform schools from reactive environments into resilient communities where teachers and students are equipped to question sources, recognize bias, analyze multimodal persuasion, and communicate responsibly.
WE-EDU is built upon a structured, evidence-based framework designed to deliver measurable impact across four key objectives:
Empowering Educators (O1): Equipping lower and upper secondary school teachers with shared pedagogical frameworks, structured training modules, and common assessment tools to teach critical media and AI literacy seamlessly across subjects.
Strengthening Student Analysis (O2): Enabling students to apply a rigorous four-step inquiry routine—examining source, evidence, intent, and consistency—to distinguish factual information from sophisticated digital manipulation.
Fostering Responsible Communication (O3): Guiding learners to express ideas ethically and effectively across multiple communication modes while being fully aware of audience impact.
Ensuring Open Access & Sustainability (O4): Delivering reusable Open Educational Resources (OER), including teacher training programs, classroom toolkits, and student e-learning pills, ensuring long-term accessibility across Europe.
The challenges of misinformation and artificial intelligence do not recognize national borders. Through robust transnational cooperation, WE-EDU connects schools, educational experts, and non-formal institutions from Latvia, Türkiye, Croatia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland. By combining diverse educational realities, we create standardized, transferable solutions that no single country could achieve alone.
Together, we are shaping a generation of resilient, critical thinkers who are prepared to navigate, question, and positively influence the digital world.