These five Saxon schools participate in media pilot project

The Saxon Ministry of Culture has selected five schools for the media project "School and Digital Democracy". As the association Aktion Zivilcourage announced on Wednesday, the high school Flöha-Plaue, the Semper high school Dresden, the Geschwister-Scholl high school Nossen, the Schiller high school Bautzen and the vocational school center for nutrition, home and agricultural economics Freiberg are to participate in the project in the upcoming school year.

Workshops, training sessions and parents' evenings on topics such as cyberbullying, fake news and hate on the Internet are planned. The aim of the project is to provide students, teachers and parents with the necessary knowledge and skills to move safely and responsibly in social networks.

In addition, the students are to be trained as experts to pass on the knowledge they have acquired to other young people in their school in the coming years. This will have a lasting effect, it said. Accordingly, the pilot phase of the project, which has already started in 2019, will end at the end of the school year.

The Ministry of Culture praised the project as "an important contribution to promoting safe and responsible use of media."