A two-day MOLA training was organised with the participation of young people at the STEM Training Base of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Sofia during the first weekend of 2023. MOLA – Model for Opinion Leaders’ Online Activation is a training programme developed by ACTIon project partner HESED and this is the third pilot group in Bulgaria that will run for three months with participants from the cities of Sofia, Plovdiv and Smolyan.

The ACTIon project aims to improve critical thinking and media literacy among learners, parents and educational staff through the use of training programmes. We focus on adolescents and young people from socially disadvantaged regions, ethnic minority / Roma youth and young migrants / refugees, experiencing the greatest barriers in the field of health and general education, the labor market and public life.

Participants mentioned that they gained several skills from the training:

“I learned how to distinguish between fact and opinion, how to separate the news, and unexpectedly very useful tricks for searching on Google.”

“I learned a lot about security and safety on the Internet”

 “I learned how we can unintentionally influence how others don’t see, we really need to know what to post. I saw another side in myself and I have to develop in a proper way”.

You can get to know more about participants and what they learned from the ACTIon training on this special issue of Voyager, a magazine published by the Open Space Foundation (starting from page 30).