Launch of the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in Youth Project “ResilientMind — A Mind Resilient to Manipulation and Disinformation”

A representative of the Karazin University team, Professor Maryna Vasylieva, Deputy Director of the Education and Research Institute “Ukrainian Engineering and Pedagogics Academy,” participated in the 1st Transnational Project Meeting (TPM) organized by the NGO “European Initiative for Youth Empowerment, Awareness, and Wellbeing — GO Alive” as part of the project “ResilientMind — Empowering Youth Against Disinformation” (2025-2-FR02-KA220-YOU-000379255). The project meeting took place in Kozani, Greece, from March 9 to 10, 2026.

The Erasmus+ ResilientMind project is new for Karazin University and represents a youth partnership under Erasmus+, aimed at strengthening digital resilience, critical thinking, and AI literacy among youth and youth workers, helping them identify and counter manipulation, disinformation, and misleading digital content. The project involves transnational collaboration between youth NGOs from France, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey, together with V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

The project is designed to empower youth initiatives and foster active citizenship by enabling young people as content creators, thereby enhancing critical thinking competencies. Through mutual learning and co-creation workshops, youth participants and youth workers collaboratively develop 8 modular learning blocks and 12 real-life simulation cases.

The main outcome of the project will be an open-access MOOC platform integrated with an AI-based Learning Assistant. The system will assess users’ susceptibility to manipulation based on tasks within gamified scenarios. The platform will provide individual feedback and recommendations with personalized learning pathways, supported by a gamified framework to boost motivation and self-efficacy. Karazin University’s role is to provide educational support and expert evaluation of the developed learning materials.

During the meeting, Maryna Vasylieva presented V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University to the international project partners and participated in planning the activities under the ResilientMind project.

The next steps will involve implementing the tasks of the project’s work packages.