"<< Objectives >>The battle against disinformation is one of the priorities of the European Commission that stresses the need for journalists to have the advanced digital skills needed for news verification. ANALYSIS intends to contribute to the development of a media ecosystem that is competent, highly trained and uses advanced, high-impact digital tech while increasing the availability, attractiveness, flexibility of training opportunities and contributing to the digital transformation of the media sector.<< Implementation >>ANALYSIS will produce a joint transnational consortium led by the Faculty of Communication of the UoA, in collaboration with 6 partners from Politics, Media & Computer Science backgrounds. Activities: - Design & Development of the Fact-Checking Academy for Journalists - Creation of a MOOC and a community on EPALE - Project website, events - Piloting - Evaluation<< Results >>The results will be a) a new joint cross-disciplinary training curriculum on fact-checking, b) a 6-week intensive programc)free MOOC, d) ""Truth Tellers"" community, e) project website, f) podcasts g) satisfaction surveys resultsBenefits: advanced training to current and future media professionals; meeting the need for new skills; employability; improving the quality of news; media literacy through dissemination activities."

"Context. Disinformation spread over the digital social networks is a threat to our democracies, our society, our economy, and to the individuals. Disinformation alters confidence of the general public in the media, and tends to undermine the freedom of press and the freedom of expression. As highlighted in the report published by the High Level Expert Group (2018) set up by the European Commission, tackling misinformation requires a multidimensional approach and strategy because of its technological, legal, political, economic and educational implications (""A multi-dimensional approach to disinformation. Report of the independent High level Group on fake news and online disinformation"" - March 2018). In this respect, the European Commission particularly recognises ""the key role of emerging technologies which are changing the way information is produced and disseminated, and have the potential to play a central role in tackling disinformation over the longer term. For instance: Artificial intelligence, Innovative technologies, such as blockchain and Cognitive algorithms. The EU Commission also streses that: ""Journalists must have the right digital skills to be able to use data and social media analytics, with a view to enhancing fact-finding and verification"".The project has also two main objectives:a)To meet the need for new and advanced skills that media and media education professionals must acquire. With this in mind, the project plans to design and develop a joint European cross-disciplinary post-graduate training curriculum on disinformation and fact-checking accessible via the Web. b)To enable participants to acquire real expertise in the fields of fact-checking and disinformation, in order to enable them to exercise the new emerging profession of fact-checker. To this end, the project plans to create a set of 8 higher education eLearning modules provided over the Web, and covering the main disciplines involved in designing and implementing a a fact-checking strategy based on quality news production and distribution. Participants. The project will be run by a consortium made of eight partners. It will be led by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, in cooperation with the Faculty of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Economics in Katowice, the Faculty of Sociology of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3, the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Lapland, the Faculty of Law of Leiden, the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lorraine, and the Portuguese Press Publisher's Association. Target audiences: students in media studies, current and future media professionals; public relation managers, teachers in media education. The project will carry out the following key activities:The design, implementation and organization of a joint European cross-disciplinary post-graduate training curriculum on disinformation and fact-checking accessible via the Web. The design & development of 8 e-learning course modules in the following areas covering the main disciplinary fields concerned by disinformation. Dissemination activities: a project website, a web portal intended for the scientific and professional community, a face-to-face workshop on fact-cheking, an international conference. The project methodology: the project will be managed by the project promoter who will assign the internaternational project coordinator, and be supported by the project Steering Committee composed of two representatives from each partner centre, one of whom acts as local coordinator of the project. A Quality Assurance process will guide the different activities of the project, supplemented by feedback analyses on the satisfaction of the project's target groups. The results and impact envisaged:a) A new joint cross-disciplinary postgraduate training curriculum on disinformation and fact-checking with a set of eight higher education eLearning modules provided over the Web; the joint organization in the partners' universities of the new postgraduate training program on fact-checking; A satisfaction survey and study;b) The joint organization five face-to-face workshops on fact-checking for news media professionals c) The project website; a dissemination web portal directed to the media scientific, and professional community; a geolocation website of the postgradute students; ; the organisation in Lisbon of an international conference on fact-checking, disinformation, and education; the organization in Portugal (mainland and islands) of a 2-day workshop on fact-checking.Impacts & future benefits: the dissemination of advanced knowledge to current and future media professionals; meeting the need for new skills; the European deployment of postgraduate studies and international access to training via the Web."