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 […]
UAB hosts first exhibition of ARENAS results
From November 12 to December 18, the Autonomous University of Barcelona will host a new exhibition Going Extreme: How Extremist Narratives Are Destroying Democracies. The exhibition presents the initial results of the ARENAS, and has been curated by Steven Forti, professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who is a Work Package […]
ARENAS project members deliver training at the Ligue des droits de l’Homme
Members of the ARENAS consortium from project Partner CRNS recently delivered training and a workshop at the headquarters of the Ligue des droits de l’Homme (League of Human Rights), in Paris. Beatrice Fracchiolla of the University of Lorraine and Louise Burté, a doctoral student at CREM is both on a CNRS contract for ARENAS and […]