“Promoting Media Literacy and Youth Citizen Journalism through Mobile Stories” – ProMS – brought together seven partner organisations from six European countries to scale up a production and publishing tool that equips young people with the skills and knowledge to become responsible and informed producers, consumers and distributors of digital media.

The project developed an international, English-language version of Mobile Stories, a Swedish publishing tool and platform developed by journalists Lotta Bergseth and Jenny Sköld. The tool guides students through identifying and creating trustworthy news content online, letting them try out journalistic methods while learning journalistic ethics.

Increasing access to verified, trusted content

Founded in response to the rapidly changing ways we communicate and consume information, Mobile Stories has reached more than 10,000 students in Sweden since its launch in 2015. With ProMS, the community began to grow in Europe. The English version was piloted in schools in Finland, Ireland and Romania.

ProMS also promoted media and information literacy (MIL) across borders by letting schools in different countries collaborate in the tool. The project also collected data on students’ skills and learning and shared the lessons with researchers and practitioners.

Meet the consortium

ProMS was funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe Programme and led by Voice4You, the non-profit arm of Mobile Stories and the first Swedish initiative to receive funding from Google.org. Voice4You was responsible for project management and technical development of the international version. The other partners were specialists in youth media literacy, education and technology:

Screenshot of the consortium during the project kick-off meeting

This project has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement: CREA-CROSS-2023- MEDIALITERACY-Project 101136134.

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