FIghting fake news and DisinfOrmation

Improving the digital literacy of seniors to minimise the social, financial and political impact of fake news in Europe.

An Erasmus+ Project

What are we creating?

A New Training Methodology

shifting existing mentalities on how to train senior adults in using, communicating and understanding media.

A MANUAL FOR TRAINERS

focussing on tools and methods useful to evaluate the credibility of news and information on media.

A Serious Educational Video GAme

a game made for senior citizens reflecting on how media, fake news, disinformation and the digital community work.

First Round of Living Labs
100%
Second round of living labs
100%
Piloting the Serious Game
100%
Multiplier Events
100%

Our NEW TRAINING METHODOLOGY IS ready!

A new Training Methodology

Learn how to recognise and fight against fake news and disinformation!
Download it in english
Our Training Methodology is available for free in five languages that can be downloaded by using the links below.

Deep Fake

Troll Farming

Language Based Manipulation

Misinformation and DATA MANIPULATION

Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories

Biased information

Icebreaker Activities

Our Manual is ready!

Download it in english
FI.DO recognises that supporting digital media literacy trainers is crucial! For this reason, we have created a Manual for those who would like to develop and implement media literacy courses, awareness campaigns and anti-fake news workshops.
Our Manual is available for free in five languages that can be downloaded by using the links below.

Our FIDO Serious Game

AUTHENTICITY!
Do you know how to unmask fake news and disinformation?
Real news and fake news are going around in the chats on your phone.
Join a chat, read the sources and express your opinion.
Help your friends and family avoid fake news.
Play Now

living labs

Our aim is to:
a) survey on the main traps which seniors fall into using digital media;
b) raise awareness about fake news and disinformation in media;
c) provide a simple and educational video game for training seniors on how to unmask misinformation.

  • Italy
  • Greece
  • Slovenia
  • Poland

Promotional activities

Articles and videos about the project in EPALE, INTED and other platforms.

EPALE - Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe

  1. The Interview with Angeliki Giannakopoulou from DAFNI KEK: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/fido-project-we-are-trying-make-phone-more-critical
  3. Living Labs in Slovenia: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/fido-project-comes-life-adult-classrooms
  4. Interview with Antonio Gennarelli from IDEC: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/we-want-bring-people-closer-reality-facts 
  5. Interview with Izabela Walczak from AHE: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/technology-advances-content-quickly-becomes-obsolete 
  6. Interview with Luigi Bevilacqua from QZR: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/dynamics-and-rules-fido-game-are-same-real-world 
  7. Interview with Liza Kokole from ZLU: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/sl/blog/ce-bo-zanimanje-ostalo-bomo-delavnice-izvajali-tudi-v-prihodnosti 

All articles are available in English, Italian, Polish, Slovenian and Greek.

INTED2023 - International Technology, Education and Development Conference

The FI.DO partnership has submitted a paper to be presented in the INTED2023 Conference in March of 2023.

Title: "FI.DO: FIGHTING FAKE NEWS AND DISINFORMATION- A SERIOUS GAME AND NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR TRAINING SENIOR CITIZENS'

Videos from project events and labs

  1. Delavnice FIDO o digitalni pismenosti starejših odraslih, marec in april 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jHXOiYh_Y 
  2. I Living Lab del progetto FI.DO prendono vita a Pisa (Italia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVHIcQ2d_k
  3. Workshop on Fake News and Disinformation (FIDO), Greece, 23.1.2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZvuDVVgNFo
  4. FIDO Multiplier event in Slovenia, 8.12.2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsgqf_UXnmQ 
  5. Workshop with use of serious game, Slovenia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOcU3oLXn0Y

Our partnership

FI.DO is a KA2 Erasmus+ project that has been implemented by seven organisations from four different European countries: Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Poland.

AFORISMA
COORDINATOR (IT)

QZR (IT)

AHE (PL)