O projeto MIL – Comunidades Conectadas (MIL CC) tem como objetivo responder a três grandes desafios que as bibliotecas públicas enfrentam atualmente: 1) os bibliotecários carecem frequentemente de formação em literacia dos media e da informação (LMI) e de competências fundamentais, especialmente na era da IA generativa; 2) apesar de existirem recursos de LMI de alta qualidade e disponíveis gratuitamente, a maioria não está adaptada às necessidades específicas das bibliotecas e dos seus utilizadores; 3) as estruturas das bibliotecas e os contextos comunitários variam muito na Europa, mas os recursos da LMI são frequentemente criados sem considerar questões de tradução e adaptação.   Para responder a estes desafios, o MIL CC propõe um curso híbrido para bibliotecários, criado e implementado pela Learn to Check (Espanha), envolvendo bibliotecários e membros da comunidade local, incluindo adolescentes, adultos e idosos. Inicialmente em catalão, o curso será traduzido para inglês, português e espanhol, e será atualizado e melhorado com base nos resultados de um projeto-piloto de formação comunitária irlandês que visa capacitar professores, bibliotecários e líderes comunitários para ministrarem oficinas da LMI nas suas comunidades.       Através do curso MIL CC, 150 bibliotecários irão desenvolver projetos comunitários da LMI adaptados aos seus contextos. Irão ainda projetar, implementar e avaliar atividades de LMI, organizando um conjunto de práticas que resultam. Serão também produzidos standards para a implementação do curso e para a criação de projetos, os quais serão validados por parceiros nacionais e por um grupo de especialistas internacionais, seguindo uma metodologia de cocriação.       Quer os materiais da formação quer os standards serão publicados sob licença Creative Commons, além de serem disseminados através de redes existentes (ex: EDMO) e de uma rede de bibliotecas interconectadas, sendo esta última dos principais resultados do MIL CC.  

The Iberian Digital Media Observatory (IBERIFIER Plus) aims to expand the ongoing activities of IBERIFIER (www.iberifier.eu),the Iberian hub established in 2021 dedicated to researching and combating disinformation in Spain and Portugal. Composed of ahighly experienced and qualified consortium of 25 partners and 1 associate partner, the new hub plans to engage in fact-checking inthree languages (Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan) while exploring artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for early disinformationdetection. It will also analyse the impacts of disinformation, particularly in the digital media ecosystem, and promote media literacy.Thus, IBERIFIER Plus covers all the key objectives of the Call, including actively engaging with EDMO, fact-checking harmfuldisinformation, conducting research on disinformation's impact on society, supporting media literacy campaigns, monitoring onlineplatform policies, and enhancing communication efforts. Aligned with the Call's focus on linguistic areas, IBERIFIER Plus' unique aspectis its ambition to expand its activities beyond Spain and Portugal, influencing the Ibero-American region, Africa, and Asia, where Spanishand Portuguese are spoken by over 800 million native speakers. Regarding impact, IBERIFIER Plus plans to employ dissemination,exploitation, and engagement strategies to ensure the effective sharing, application, and engagement of multiple stakeholders with itsresearch outcomes. Overall, IBERIFIER Plus aims to contribute to the Digital Europe Programme's objectives and EDMO strategy byaddressing disinformation challenges in Spain and Portugal, and expanding its reach beyond these two countries.

ALGOWATCH aims to create a dedicated multi-stakeholder team focused on algo-literacy, an emergent sub-field of Media and Information Literacy (MIL), with a special focus on how to detect and deflect algorithmic disinformation. The action will use an empowerment by design methodology, having participants co-create interactive quizzes and board games, to foster self-efficacy and participatory processes among people with low skills (youth 15+ and multiplier professionals). ALGOWATCH will capitalize on 2022 Crossover project (https://crossover.social), to scale up algo-literacy across Europe. It will unpack the Crossover “Algo literacy for all in 10 key points, with interactive quizzes and board games shared in local exhibits, for better e-inclusion. The action will have a strong focus on behavioural change, motivating watchful participants to build individual resilience and collective resistance to disinformation (verification, advocacy, alternate uses). The ALGOWATCH work plan includes 4 activities, over 2 years: 1) Produce interactive quizzes and games for awareness; 2) Engage participants in co-creative activities in an exhibit space; 3) Deploy exhibit in workshops with multiplier professionals in formal settings (schools) and in informal settings (libraries, museums); 4) Disseminate the resources for transfer of practices. The final deliverables will consist of an activity bank and a dissemination toolkit (with pathways for e-inclusion, communication plan and evaluation plan). The ALGOWATCH consortium brings together all required expertise, each partner working with an extended network of partners and EDMO hubs: 1) S*D (France), a MIL NGO with experience in games, quizzes and project coordination; 2) DKMK (Croatia), a MIL NGO with experience in workshop evaluation; 3) NUIM (Ireland), a university specialised in digital games and empowerment by design; 4) ISCTE (Portugal), a university specialised in training and outreach to diverse communities of practice.

IBERIFIER is an Iberian hub that aims to tackle disinformation in Spain and Portugal by bringing together aconsortium of 23 partners, composed of 12 universities, 5 independent fact-checking organisations and publicly-owned news agencies, and 6 leading institutions on strategic analysis, computer and data science, and mediaresearch. With the support of public authorities of both countries, relevant media organisations, several scientific andprofessional associations, as well as some other stakeholders, the activities of this Action comprise: (1) scientificresearch and analysis for the security and development of the Iberian digital media ecosystem; (2) fact-checking inthree languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan); (3) computer and data research aimed at developing systemsfor early detection of disinformation; (4) strategic analyses about the impacts of disinformation on areas such aspolitics, economy, social and security issues, science and technology, and the media industry; and (5) developmentof media literacy, through a set of activities targeted mainly to young people, journalists and citizens in general.Although the consortium focuses its activities on Spain and Portugal, its impacts are expected to reach far beyondthese two countries, thus contributing to the overall strategy and goals of the European Digital Media Observatory.Thanks to the international dimension of some of the consortium partners, as well as the set of scientific,communication and dissemination activities planned, IBERIFIER aims to have impact in the socio-cultural andlinguistic area that comprises all the Iberian-American region as well as some other countries in Africa and Asia,where Spanish and Portuguese languages are spoken by more than 600 million people, spread over 21 Spanish-speaking and 9 Portuguese-speaking countries.