The spread of disinformation and misinformation has become a complex social challenge that can negatively affect health, climate, environment, economy and institutions.
Helps us to overcome this challenge by participating in this SSERIES activity organized by four EELISA universities (École des Ponts. ParisTech, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). You can start filling this form in a few minutes and we will contact
you shortly with more information.
SSERIES stands for Science for Sustainably Envisioning Reality and Information for an Engaged Society.
The goal of this activity is to involve EELISA students in the European strategy to tackle this disinformation challenge, with a playful approach that seeks to develop critical thinking and that serves as a vaccine against disinformation. EELISA is the acronym for European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance meant to implement a Higher Education rooted in society.
You can participate into this activity by any of these two actions:
1) Feeding a database of news classified by their verified level of veracity.
In a crowdsourcing process, each person should look for at least 5 news linked to sustainability and information enough to check their level of veracity, uploading all this onto a web platform through a suitable online form. Faculty members will curate this info. This can be done from December,1, 2022 to February, 28, 2023.
2) Participating in an intercampus teams championship against disinformation: in March 2023, the teams would attend the championship in person at their own campus to connect online with the rest of the participants. Students should register themselves in teams of 3 people (until February, 28, 2023) to participate in this debate league in which they develop their arguments to convince about the level of veracity of certain news.
There will be an awards ceremony for the winning teams at the championship to be held in Madrid, in April 2023, as part of an international “Summathon” that will be a joint SSERIES community event.
And if you are an EELISA student, this opportunity to combat disinformation and to gain an EELISA credential signed by the EELISA alliance of european universities is waiting for you!
Do you have questions? Write to eelisasseries.community@upm.es
