We’re thrilled to bring the latest updates from the “NEED – News Literacy on Board” project in our second newsletter! This edition highlights our progress in creating innovative, game-based tool for enhancing news literacy and critical thinking. The board game that was developed will serve as a unique assessment tool, providing a foundation for future…

On November 8, 2024, the second transnational meeting of the NEED project partners was organized at the Belgrade City Library in the capital of Serbia. Eleven people attended the meeting – two representatives from the partners in Bulgaria and Slovenia, three from Turkey, and four representatives from Serbia. The meeting was very informative and productive,…

One of the most important global conferences, the IFLA Information Futures Summit 2024, was held from September 30 to October 3, 2024, in Brisbane, Australia (https://2024.ifla.org). The summit was attended by around 800 participants from over 70 countries worldwide. Representatives of the Belgrade City Library, Jasmina Ninkov and Marjan Marinković, gave a presentation titled Fact…

We are thrilled to announce that the first expected project result of “NEED – News Literacy on Board” is complete! After months of dedicated work, our team has successfully developed a unique game-based assessment tool designed to evaluate learners’ knowledge and skill levels in news literacy and critical thinking. This innovative tool takes the form…

We are excited to present the first issue of our “News Literacy on Board” project newsletter. This issue comes after our first significant achievement in the project. It summarizes what we aim to achieve, provides details about a completed training session for trainers, and introduces the partner organizations involved in the project. The newsletter will be…

From March 20th to 22nd, a comprehensive Training of Trainers (ToT) was conducted in Žalec, Slovenia, as part of the “NEED – News Literacy on Board” project. The training’s objective was to provide participants from all partner organisations with the necessary skills to incorporate board games effectively into news literacy education. The workshop was structured…

In December 2023, the “NEED – News Literacy on Board” project team had an important first meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hosted by Nikanor Ltd, the project coordinator, this was the first time all the project partners had come together since the project started in October.

October marks European Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we are excited to launch our newest initiative, “NEED – NEWS LITERACY ON BOARD.” This pioneering project is now underway. At the heart of NEED is the goal to develop and improve the abilities required for critically assessing information, using game-based learning as the primary approach.