Looking back at the Youth Policy Dialogue with EVP Roxana Mînzatu
Zuletzt aktualisiert am Freitag, 13/06/2025
On 20 January 2025, the Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness, Roxanna Mînzatu, held a Youth Policy Dialogue in Warsaw. Under the title “#True #Fake - Unmasking the Truth in a Digital World”, the event focused on building resilience to disinformation online by promoting digital and media literacy through education.
The Youth Policy Dialogue brought together 18 young people from diverse backgrounds - youth workers, social activists, young professionals in NGOs, Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps beneficiaries, members of Youth Parliament, high-school and HEI students, coming from different parts of Poland, including villages and rural areas.
Main points raised by youth included:
- introducing more rigid instruments of access restriction and age verification, ensuring that inappropriate content (including online gambling) is kept away from young people, particularly those that are under age;
- promoting practices on reducing negative social media habits and consumption, such as excessive screen time or addiction among youth;
- bridging the gap between those people who are versed in AI and those who have very little knowledge of it; between the young and the old, between the educated and those with fewer opportunities; between the ‘centre’ and the ‘periphery’ (including rural and remote areas)
- leveraging AI as a tool for fact-checking and developing safe apps to protect and empower youth in the digital space;
- engaging broader networks, including youth, parents and NGOs, in promoting digital literacy;
- using the potential of social media (e.g. influencers, sports ambassadors and other well-established role models) to promote EU-funded programmes for young people and in raising awareness of disinformation and cyberthreats.
During the discussion EVP Mînzatu underlined the fact that digital literacy should be seen as a basic skill next to reading and writing, as envisaged in the upcoming Union of Skills. She also referred to the need to promote a systemic approach to digital literacy provision, going beyond the funding of separate projects.
Read the full report - EVP Roxana Mînzatu Youth Policy Dialogue Report
