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How we do it: across languages, playfully, prebunking. online and offline. all classrooms. regional. work with newsrooms. We break silos to create a virtuous cycle of learning between journalists and their newsrooms, children and educators as well as policymakers. Our award-winning model is designed to work across languages and cultures and represents a paradigm now recommended by the EU, OECD, UN and national governments.

Our classroom visits are currently available in Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Poland. Our session format is designed to translate easily from one language and media landscape to another, so it can be applied in a large number of countries and yield consistent and measurable results.

Our teacher training sessions, led by specially chosen journalists, are available upon request for teachers anywhere.

We gather anonymised feedback from children and teachers to allow us to contribute up-to-date insights from Europe’s classrooms to vital policy debates.

Lie Detectors is non-political and takes no funding from corporations including internet platforms. We measure our success according to the high number of classrooms we reach and the recommendations and return invitations we receive from the teaching community.

We see journalists’ participation as a necessary stop-gap during the digital transformation of education. Our ultimate aim is for our approach to become integrated into existing educational structures.

We are able to do our work with thanks to funding from The Wyss Foundation.