Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece comprise four national experiments with responses to forced displacement. Undeniably, the two last countries have been impacted greatly by the flow of refugees coming in from both the Eastern and Central Mediterranean migration routes: in 2015 and 2016, the International Organization for Migration reports over 1,3 million arrivals in both countries. Portugal is one of the six most relevant participants in the EU Emergency Relocation Mechanism, having relocated over 1500 persons from Greece and Italy over a two-year period; Spain works as both a participant in the Emergency Relocation Mechanism and as a border country by way of its Ceuta and Melilla border zones. Each country provides this project with a different site for the observation of refugee lives in Europe; each offers us with opportunities for build capacity in refugee communities for these to take control over how they are narrated as human beings and how their lives are represented in European public spheres. The two main objectives of this project are a) to give a voice to people who have experienced loss of control and mastery over their own lives and b) to promote reskilling and upskilling through non-formal education in the context of increasingly digital economies and societies. Although this characterizes at-risk, underprivileged communities everywhere, refugees are particularly affected by loss of control as this is the core defining factor of forced displacement. This project looks to train staff and refugees in participatory methods which promote initial co-creation of digital stories and results in full creative independence by refugees. The threefold approach of empowerment through digital literacy developed through non-formal education is an innovative way of giving refugees a voice in the current European mediascapes, at the same raising awareness.