Geração SULi - Collaborative Reporting Platform with Schools

Geração SULi strengthened connections between schools, regional journalism and local communities. Its digital platform and newsletter brought students’ work to wider audiences, including areas with limited local media, while growing interest from schools highlights the project’s potential for long-term impact across the Algarve.

Project Activities

With the funding, Geração SULi delivered hands-on workshops in six Algarve secondary schools, where Sul Informação journalists trained and mentored students in fact-checking, media ethics, journalistic writing and multimedia storytelling. Students produced their own stories, published on the new Geração SULi website, a youth-focused digital platform created by the project. A dedicated newsletter was also launched to share this content with wider audiences. Together, these activities strengthened media literacy and civic participation while bringing Sul Informação closer to schools, teachers, young people and their communities.

What is the impact?

Geração SULi made a meaningful contribution to addressing news deserts in the Algarve by working with secondary schools that also serve students from inland municipalities with little or no access to local newspapers or radio stations. By giving young people the tools to identify, investigate and report on issues affecting their own schools and communities, the project helped bring greater visibility to places, people and topics that are often underrepresented in mainstream media.

The Geração SULi website further strengthened this impact by providing a permanent public platform for student-produced, locally relevant journalism. In this way, the project not only expanded access to quality public-interest information but also empowered young people to become active contributors to their local media ecosystem.

Geração SULi strengthened media literacy, critical thinking and civic participation among young people in the Algarve. The 97 participating students gained practical skills in fact-checking, journalistic writing, media ethics and multimedia storytelling, while having the opportunity to investigate and give visibility to issues affecting their schools and local communities. The project also promoted inclusion by giving students from diverse cultural and migrant backgrounds a public voice.

The project also brought Sul Informação closer to younger audiences, teachers and the wider school community. Through the new Geração SULi website and newsletter—which reached almost 1,000 subscribers—the students’ work gained a wider public audience. The interest expressed by participating and other Algarve schools in continuing or joining the project demonstrates its potential to create a lasting regional network connecting schools, communities and professional journalism.

Project Links

• Geração Suli - Capacitando jovens jornalistas a contar as histórias que importam.
• Sul Informação

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