Health-Lit Project

Health-Lit

What is the mission of the Health-Lit project?

Health-Lit is a 24-month Erasmus+ project designed to enhance the health literacy of young people aged 14 to 29 in Italy, Lithuania, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Croatia. The project aims to empower youth to navigate health-related information, detect disinformation, and build digital resilience – key competences in today’s complex media and health environment.

To achieve this, Health-Lit will:

• • • Equip youth with the skills to critically assess health information online and offline.

    • Support youth workers and educators with innovative methodologies in health literacy and media education.

    • Strengthen the connection between practice and policy in the youth and health sectors.

    • Engage communities in creating healthier, better-informed digital citizens.

The project’s activities include youth events, training for educators, digital tools, and research to support youth engagement.

 

What is Future Needs’ role in Health-Lit?

In Health-Lit, Future Needs leads the work package “Connect: Communicate, Participate, Disseminate.” This involves the full communication and dissemination strategy of the project, ensuring wide visibility, engagement, and participation across all five countries and beyond.

Specifically, Future Needs will:

• • • Create the project’s visual identity and branding.

    • Design and implement the communication plan, including social media, stakeholder outreach, and public engagement.

    • Coordinate project partners in executing communication activities aligned with identified target groups.

    • Lead knowledge sharing to showcase youth voices and the impact of Health-Lit in action.

Through its role, Future Needs ensures the project remains accessible, engaging, and inclusive, building a community around health literacy and empowering the next generation of digital citizens.

 

HealthLit aims to target:

Health-Lit focuses on reaching and empowering:

• • • Young people aged 14–29.

    • Youth workers and youth activists who work in civic and health education.

    • Educators, healthcare professionals and policy experts, working with or for the youth.

 

Which are the outcomes of the project?

Health-Lit is designed to deliver both tangible outputs and lasting social impact:

• • • Increased understanding of the challenges young people face regarding health disinformation and health literacy (HL) education.

    • Development of tailored learning resources, including a youth-focused training programme, a practical playbook for youth workers, and engaging HL awareness content.

    • Empowerment of youth activists through training and capacity-building efforts in HL and critical thinking.

    • Promotion of youth civic engagement to sustain social cohesion and resilience against health disinformation.

Over 700 people will take part in local and international project activities, while an estimated 5,000 individuals will be reached through digital and communication channels.