AIwareness
Aiwareness is a Small-Scale Partnership project funded by Erasmus+. It focuses on strengthening the resilience and preparedness of young people with fewer opportunities, helping them recognize and effectively navigate social engineering, data theft, and related online risks in their daily lives. Through practical tools and awareness-building activities, the project empowers youth to stay safe and confident in an increasingly digital world.
The research will provide a strong evidence base to demonstrate to stakeholders that social engineering and AI-related threats are real, current, and rapidly evolving. It will also offer clear guidance on the most relevant risks, shaping our awareness materials, workshops, and training for both youth and parents. In addition, the findings will inspire educational content such as real-world scenarios, detection tips, and ethical discussion points. Overall, the research will reinforce our methodology with credible, up-to-date insights that directly support the development of the toolkit and training activities.
Project Summary
Objectives
The key objectives are to develop a toolkit or methodology for youth workers to enhance the understanding of digital footprints, raise awareness about personal digital footprint, recognize and prevent fraud involving deep fake technology, and address data harvesting and theft. The overall goal is to prepare youth workers to educate young individuals on preventing social engineering, to improve digital readiness, to raise the quality of future youth work.
Activities
The following activities will be taken to ensure the project success:
-Three transnational Project Meetings (kick-off, mid-term, final meeting).
-Research on the factual situation in each country.
-Development of new methodology for youth workers and testing.
-Training course for youth workers
-Three local multiplier events for dissemination of results
-Development and publishing of e-Toolkit with systematized methods, tools, and step by step instructions for facilitating workshops.