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 vs. Fake – Libraries Building News Literate Societies. During their talk, they presented two international projects dedicated to news literacy and critical thinking: the ESSENTIAL project (https://newslitproject.net), which developed an extensive online course on this topic, and the NEED project (https://newsliteracy.info), which goes a step further by applying innovative methods of learning through games and hybrid education in teaching citizens about news literacy.
The presentation gained significant attention from colleagues from many countries and was mentioned during the closing session of the summit. Many participants announced their intention to adopt and use the project’s resources in their work.
