With the support of the European Union and the Council of Europe, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media in Serbia (REM) conducted an outreach event on promoting media literacy, providing 90 pre-school educators with enhanced knowledge, recommendations and tools to promote media literacy, within “Open media literacy days” campaign.
This event is the result of the effort made by REM to develop its capacities to equip preschool educators with the tools needed to teach safe navigation in the digital landscape. A pivotal catalyst for pre-school age children as a focus was REM’s-commissioned survey in 2022, which has unveiled a concerning reality: 69.7% of surveyed preschool educators expressed concern regarding the effects of social networks on children, categorising this influence as either "harmful" or "very harmful."
The action “Protecting freedom of expression and of the media (PRO-FREX) in Serbia” is part of the joint European Union and the Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye”.