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    Title: Youth and Media: Builders of Democracy from Avrillé-les-

    Ponceaux

    Author:BL

    Avrillé-les-Ponceaux, a small French commune in the heart of rural France,


    hosted 24 young people from five countries from October 4th to 14th,
    2024. This village, with fewer than 500 residents, mostly of older age, was
    filled with the voices of young enthusiasts and professionals gathered to
    participate in a training workshop titled “Disinformation, Media, and
    Manipulation with Media in Democratic Societies and How to Stay
    Democratic in These Times,” as part of the Erasmus+ project.

    The aim of this interactive workshop, attended by young people from


    North Macedonia, Estonia, France, Sweden, and Croatia, was to inform,
    educate, and share experiences about the role of media in modern
    society, which faces a decline in democratic values and the rise of radical
    ideological currents that threaten freedom of expression and speech. All
    these processes affect the engagement of young people and their right to
    shape the future, making it imperative for this training to raise awareness
    of their role in their communities through the use of media.

    The host of the project was the French association 'La Génération de
    Demain' and four other partner organizations from the participating
    countries, while the ten-day training was led by trainers Slave Kostadinov
    from Macedonia and Emanuel Caristi from Italy. The workshops began with
    short, dynamic activities designed to boost the group’s morale and focus,
    each of which was thematically linked to media and their role. Every day,
    we learned and were informed about key concepts and topics such as the
    impact of media on democracy, media manipulation, fake news, and the
    importance of spreading credible information.
    The key part of each day was the practical application of what was learned
    through exercises and examples that participants, divided into groups,
    created independently. During the ten-day stay, participants had the
    opportunity to share their experiences and tell personal stories and
    situations about how media had influenced their lives. One of the most
    memorable activities was the TED+ session, where three participants
    shared their inspirational stories. In conclusion, participants created their
    own workshops about media that could be practically applied in their
    home countries with new participants.

    Personally, as one of the participants in the project, I had the opportunity


    to hear the experiences of other participants in their countries, but also to
    share my own, drawing from my years of work in journalism. My
    motivation for participating in this project was to remind myself of how
    much my role in the media can influence life in the local community, and
    to remind others how an individual, by using media in the right way, can
    raise awareness and highlight relevant issues. For this reason, this
    workshop, conducted in an intercultural team, provides a great experience
    for young people to enrich themselves both personally and professionally.

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