Project: RECLAIM

• Citizenship education in Europe constitutes a mosaic of different national and subnational approaches. In order to empower citizens against a manipulative media and information environment, more and better coordination at the EU level is necessary while at the same time respecting national and subnational competences in the area
• Considerable room for improvement exists in the field of teacher education on key skills needed to achieve the broader goal of empowering citizens, including media literacy, but also critical thinking and digital skills.
• Too little is known empirically about the effectiveness of national and subnational approaches to teaching such key skills; to remedy this situation, a testing tool is needed that can ascertain the extent to which students in different education systems are empowered to navigate the changing media and information landscape.