First full day of working. Participants were getting to know each other, familiarizing with agenda of the project, playing ice-breaking games. Apart from that, participants had an online session of Skepsis movement presentation and its detailed explanation:
– What is it?
– How does it work?
– What is the movement devoted to?
– Who is involved into the movement?

Critical thinking introduction day. 4 sessions entirely devoted to understanding the concept of critical thinking and its derivatives:
– Why should we know it?
– How can critical thinking help us?
– Where is it applied?

Then, we had a presentation of logical fallacies in the interactive way of scenes. Besides that, an explanation of common misconceptions where participants could play Kahoot.
A short explanation of the notion of cognitive biases and presentation of examples was made by participants based on the giving out materials.
In the evening, there was a session on strategies for developing critical thinking and a discussion + reflection time of the day.
After the whole day of working and gaining knowledge, participants could present their countries on the intercultural party with food and performances of their talents – singing, playing traditional instruments, dancing. Moreover, on the intercultural party, we invited local people where they were able to talk and engage with participants.

Media literacy day:
– What is media literacy?
– Why do we need it?
– How does the knowledge of critical thinking can help us here?

Presentation of the fake news, their examples, why they can be dangerous in general, and pandemic times? Working in groups and elaborating ways of preventing yourself from the problem of disinformation.
Besides that, the assistant of a journalist for a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel TVN made a presentation for us on journalistic work basics.
After having dinner, we were working with fake photos and their identification with the Kahoot competition’s help.

Participants were introduced with the idea of non-formal education and the Visegrad Fund.
Additionally, they had to think of what they would like to present during an open event based on the gained knowledge of critical thinking and media literacy and decided which team to join.
After the discussions, they came up with five groups who had to prepare tools to develop critical thinking and media literacy.

Here they are:
– One team decided to stage interactive theatre, including logical fallacies and cognitive biases.
– The second team wanted to design stickers on “Smart fact-checking.”
– The third team expressed a desire to create a Kahoot presentation of biases.
– Forth team decided to involve an article analysis of the Russian vaccine.
– The idea of the last team was to shoot a video, social experiment. They said to random people on the street fake news and filmed their answers and reaction.
During the whole day, participants were working on their ideas with the help of trainers.

Day of preparing for the open event. Earlier, we placed a post on Facebook with information about the open event. We decided to make on the fresh air to take precautions. We elaborated on a detailed plan for the workshop and who and how will present their tools during this day. However, before participants showed their ideas, they were making previously.
All the participants successfully worked out with the ideas and brought them to life.
The open event started with an introduction and explanation for the guests who came to us (more than 10) and then presented our materials.
First, there was a team with a video experiment. Team told a story that was behind the idea.
Then, another team presented stickers on “smart fact-checking” and gave them out to the guests.
After that, participants briefly explained what cognitive biases are and create an interaction with the audience in Kahoot.
Small coffee break to make up everybody’s mind after such a productive workshop.
Further, a team presented its interactive theatre with cognitive biases and logical fallacies. The participants were playing scenes one time, and the second time audience had to interrupt the actors and change the direction of the dialogues into the usual way, free of biases and fallacies.
The last team presented titles of articles on the given subject, and we had to guess which of them are neutral, positive, and negative.
Guests were delighted with the workshop. Apart from the knowledge of critical thinking, they could speak with foreigners.

Evaluation and reflection day. During this day, we were exchanging opinions and emotions on the projects and open event results.
– What was the best?
– What could be done better?
– Was the given information during the project useful for them?
– Are the participants now able to do a workshop on critical thinking or media literacy by themselves?
– How did the participants feel their involvement?
Additionally, they received certificates of participation in the project.