EmpowerED is a regional project aimed at enhancing media literacy and combating disinformation in Moldova, Armenia, and Georgia. Implemented in partnership with six organizations from the Visegrad countries, Armenia, and Moldova, the project focuses on building information resilience through training courses, Training of Trainers (ToT), local workshops, and the development of a structured curriculum and online course. Funded by the Visegrad Fund and co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the initiative empowers youth to effectively tackle disinformation and strengthen media literacy in Eastern Partnership countries.

he project aims to promote an understanding of NATO-Georgia’s relationship values, strengthen the Alliance’s public image, and prevent disinformation threats in the Kvemo Kartli region through capacity building of local civil society organizations and educational institutions, with a particular focus on ethnic minority rural youth in Gardabani municipality. 

The project is dedicated to promoting democratic values, combating disinformation, and fostering information and media literacy among young people in Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions of Georgia. We achieve this by building the capacity of local youth organizations, with a specific focus on ethnic minority rural youth.

This project aimed to equip rural youth with crucial social entrepreneurship skills in the green and digital economies in Kazbegi and Borjomi municipalities. The project comprised two key components:  Building Social Entrepreneurship Skills and Sharing best practices.

This project successfully executed a range of activities to promote a deeper understanding of Georgia’s European aspirations and counter disinformation and anti-western propaganda in Kvemo Kartli.

Capacity-building and awareness-raising initiatives were successfully executed within the framework of this project, all in pursuit of the primary objective: