DigiRes

The DigiRes project aims to help young people navigate the challenges of digital transformation and strengthen their media resilience by equipping youth professionals with knowledge and training materials. The project develops educational resources and opportunities that promote healthy digital habits and critical reflection, including support for young people with additional needs in learning development.

The objectives of the project are the following:

Objective 1: Foster inclusion by enhancing media literacy and digital competencies
The project bridges the digital divides, by educating young people who might otherwise lack skills and access. It develops inclusive, need-based educational resources and tailored learning opportunities that strengthen young people’s media competences, foster healthy digital habits, and address the diverse needs of youth, including those with needs in learning development, to better navigate an increasingly digital world.

Objective 2: Build digital resilience
The project empowers young people to manage digital risks, including overuse, misinformation, and harmful online behavior and fosters critical awareness of personal digital habits and supports effective management of time, emotions, and behaviors. This objective is particularly relevant for young people with additional needs, who are more vulnerable to digital overstimulation and the challenges associated with excessive screen use.

Objective 3: Bring innovation and impact to youth work by combining media education with experiential learning in natural environments.
The training integrates sensory activities with media pedagogy to enrich learning experiences and encourage reflection on personal media behavior in nature-related environments. This promotes digital resilience in an experiential, hands-on way. Each topic of the toolkit includes sensory activities that help young people regulate their digital media habits and recognize which experiences are beneficial for them. Through this approach, youth professionals are empowered to foster media resilience in an innovative, inclusive, and experience-based manner.

Objective 4: Enhance the capacity of youth professionals
The project equips youth professionals with innovative, experience-based media education methods conducted in natural settings to strengthen media resilience in young people. They will gain the knowledge and tools to integrate media pedagogy with experiential learning in nature, learning practical approaches to foster resilience, encourage reflection on digital habits, and promote healthy media practices.

Objective 5: Empower local and regional stakeholders to ensure long-term impact and sustainability of the results
Awareness-raising and educational materials will be disseminated to key stakeholders, enabling them to better support young people in building digital media resilience through more inclusive, diverse, and targeted approaches.

During the project Toolkit will be developed which will address the following topics:
1. Self-Regulation
2. Social Competence
3. Critical Thinking
4. Raising Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance
5. Self-Awareness and Self-Efficacy
6. Stress Management

Timeline: 01/03/2026 – 29/02/2028

Project consortium:

• MANO EUROPA
• MMT Academics (Germany)
• Association Community (France)
• Zavod Aspira (Slovenia)