Partner – Center for Digital Ethics
Location – Vilnius region
Since 2024
The project “Digital Citizenship: Bright Style to Navigate the Digital World” aimed to strengthen digital citizenship skills among students, teachers, and parents, particularly in linguistically diverse and vulnerable communities. Implemented from 2024 to 2025 by the Digital Ethics Centre in partnership with the British Council in Lithuania and national broadcaster LRT, the initiative successfully reached over 700 participants across six schools. Combining digital literacy education with body movement therapy, it offered a unique, engaging, and emotionally supportive environment for learning.
During the lessons, students explored key aspects of digital citizenship, including responsible online behavior, critical thinking, digital identity, and the recognition of hate speech and disinformation. They learned how to maintain a healthy balance in digital media use, protect their privacy, and identify reliable sources of information. The lessons also fostered empathy, respect for diversity, and the confidence to engage in digital spaces thoughtfully and safely.
After the lessons, students took on the role of peer educators by designing and delivering digital citizenship lessons to other classes. These peer–led sessions fostered leadership, reinforced learning, and created stronger social connections within and between school communities.
The initiative also engaged over 200 teachers and more than 200 parents through expert–led workshops and training sessions, which highlighted the impact of digital world on children and teens, digital safety, responsibility and community cohesion.
The project culminated in a final in–person event, where all participating schools came together to share insights, presentations, and creative outcomes. A dedicated digital platform was launched to provide open–access materials developed by professionals and students alike, ensuring the project’s long–term impact and accessibility for schools across Lithuania. The project proved that blending education with movement can unlock empathy, resilience, and civic engagement in both digital and real–life communities.
During the project:
Over 700 participants took part in the project activities
Almost 300 students from 6 schools in Vilnius city and Vilnius region were engaged in project activities
The student body included Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Israeli, and other migrant/refugee backgrounds.
Over 200 parents and 200 members of school communities were engaged in project activities
88% of students and 99% of teachers found training valuable and reported learning new digital citizenship skills