Webinar: Literacy for Digital Citizenship
Digital literacy is no longer a luxury; it is essential to successfully navigate an online world of disinformation and digital threats. With the rise in digital misinformation, resilient critical thinkers are essential, and we all have a responsibility to inform ourselves and improve our digital literacy skills. To support the improvement of digital literacy, the […]
ARENAS Partners work published in respected Ensambles Journel
ARENAS consortium members Gwenaelle Bauvois from the University of Helsinki and Claudia Jareño Gila from CY Cergy Paris Université recently collaborated on a paper that was published in the Argentinian journal Ensambles. Their article, “The Nemésis collective: the revenge of far-right feminists”, examines the French collective Némésis, which defines itself as feminist but maintains close […]
Protecting Young People Online: Is Exclusion or Education the answer?
Australia implemented a social media ban for under-16s on December 10 2025. It has prompted debate about how best to protect young people in an increasingly volatile digital landscape. Concerns about online harms from misinformation to extremist narratives are legitimate. Insights from youth education initiatives across Europe, including the ARENAS project, suggest a more nuanced […]
Latvian Partner Creative Ideas presents ARENAS at the Riga NGO house
Who will lead your organisation tomorrow – respect or chaos? The working environment is constantly evolving, and diversity — in age, culture, experience, values, and worldview — is becoming an increasingly central element of organisational life. Yet, actual growth is only possible when leadership is grounded in respect, inclusion, and shared understanding. As part of […]
ARENAS represented at the Media Literacy Ireland conference
Denise Callan, from Irish Partner Momentum, recently attended the Media Literacy Ireland conference in Dublin, where she shared information about the ARENAS project with attendees. Media Literacy Ireland is an informal alliance of individuals and organisations who work together on a mainly voluntary basis to promote media literacy in Ireland. The organisation invited ARENAS to […]
2025 Aleksanteri Conference hosted by the University of Helsinki
ARENAS partner, University of Helsinki, recently hosted the 2025 Aleksanteri Conference. This year’s conference theme was Extremisms: Ambiguities, Ideologies, Agency, and featured presentations from several members of the ARENAS Consortium. The conference brought together researchers to discuss and present the latest research on countering extremism, how authoritarian societies label minorities as extremists, far-right extremism, information […]