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DRAFT REPORT (2025/2181(INI))

On a new strategy for media literacy and digital learning

CULT-PR-784483

Committee on Culture and Education · Rapporteur: Marcos Ros Sempere

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This draft report proposes a new EU strategy for media literacy and digital learning, calling for coordinated action, stronger regulation, and education reforms to empower citizens, especially minors, against disinformation and online risks. It asks the Commission to assess age-appropriate access to platforms, review AVMSD and DSA rules, and prioritize media literacy in EU programs, while urging Member States to integrate these skills into curricula and ensure enforcement. The report also emphasizes lifelong learning, educator training, public awareness campaigns, and annual European Media Literacy Week, with stable funding and monitoring.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution calling for a coordinated EU strategy, stronger regulation, and education reforms to enhance media literacy and digital learning, with emphasis on protecting minors and vulnerable groups.

Key points

  1. Calls for a coordinated EU approach to media literacy and digital learning, involving EU institutions and Member States.
  2. Asks the Commission to assess and possibly propose a common EU approach on age-appropriate access to online platforms, respecting fundamental rights and national differences.
  3. Requests evaluation and targeted amendments to AVMSD to increase protection on video-sharing platforms, expand rules to influencers, and improve AI content labelling.
  4. Urges very large online platforms to mitigate systemic risks from low media literacy, including impact assessments, as required by the DSA.
  5. Calls on Member States to enforce AVMSD obligations for media literacy measures and use EMFA cooperation mechanisms.
  6. Invites European boards to cooperate and monitor platform actions on media literacy, and asks the Commission to monitor national actions under EMFA Article 26.
  7. Calls for integrating media literacy into curricula from primary level, with educator consultation and evidence-based digital use in schools.
  8. Urges the Commission to assess digital devices' impact on learning and propose restrictions if needed, especially in early childhood education.
  9. Encourages stable funding for educator training and public awareness campaigns for parents and caregivers on online safety.
  10. Asks the Commission to include media literacy in Safer Internet Centres and the BIK platform, and to organize an annual European Media Literacy Week.
  11. Calls for media literacy to be a priority in the 2030 roadmap on digital education, with stakeholder consultations and a lifelong learning approach.

Who is affected

  • Minors and young people, who face online risks and need age-appropriate education and protection.
  • Online platforms, especially very large ones, which must take mitigation measures and conduct impact assessments.
  • Member States and national regulators, responsible for curricula, enforcement, and campaigns.
  • Educators, parents, caregivers, and youth organizations, involved in designing and delivering media literacy initiatives.

Figures and deadlines

  • 97 % of young people in the EU use the internet daily.
  • Young people aged 15-24 use social media as main information source.