{"id":6095,"date":"2026-09-11T22:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:47:39","slug":"media-and-digital-literacy-and-online-safety-for-children-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=6095&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Media and Digital Literacy and Online Safety for Children and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">11.09.2026<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On 10 September 2026, Open Society Institute \u2013 Sofia took part in an event organised by the European Commission in Bulgaria, dedicated to media and digital literacy and the online safety of children and students. During the event, OSIS presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=5747&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Media Literacy Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Index is a tool for assessing and ranking societies according to their potential resilience to phenomena such as post-truth, disinformation and misinformation. OSIS\u2019s presentation highlighted the role of quality education, media freedom and social trust as key factors in building resilience to disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held on the occasion of the animated series Mila and Marko for Screens!, created by Studio Zmey with the support of the European Commission in Bulgaria and in partnership with the Media Literacy Coalition Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\r\n                <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n                    \r\n                    #td_uid_1_6ae077d3a9458  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item1 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/osis.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/News_MedLit_Sep_2026_1-1-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                    #td_uid_1_6ae077d3a9458  .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item2 {\r\n                        background: url(https:\/\/osis.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/News_MedLit_Sep_2026_2-1-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat;\r\n                    }\r\n                    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and the online safety of children and students. During the event, OSIS presented the 2026 Media Literacy Index. The Index is a tool for assessing and ranking societies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-literacy-index-en-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}