The Communications Commission, with the support of the EU Delegation to Georgia has trained more than 700 teachers in 500 public schools across the country in tackling disinformation. As part of the project “The Challenge of Disinformation: Developing Critical Thinking in Schools,” the Commission conducted 44 trainings in Tbilisi and other regions of Georgia, including the regions with large ethnic minority populations. Over a four-month period, trainings were held in around 50 towns and villages in Kvemo Kartli, Imereti, Adjara, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Guria, Kakheti, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Shida Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Racha-Lechkhumi. Notably, teachers from Abkhazia joined the training out of their own initiative. 

As part of the project, public school and vocational college teachers gained knowledge about the negative impact of disinformation and anti-western propaganda and mechanisms to protect themselves from them. Teachers explored practical methods on how to detect disinformation using media literacy skills. In addition, the training seminars provided the teachers with the opportunity to receive comprehensive information about European values and the process of Georgia's approximation with the EU legislation. As a result of the trainings, they developed critical and logical thinking skills, which will be useful for them in their daily activities, and which they will use in practice by sharing their knowledge with the students. 

Teachers were trained with the help of an education module developed specifically for this project. The seminars were led by media literacy trainers from the Communications Commission, as well as guest trainers Nino Kazhashvili and Manana Jincharadze. The training module is based on modern and topical approaches, and includes topics such as critical thinking, various methods of identifying false information and methods of validating information. The module also included practical tasks.

The important role and effective work of the Communications Commission in the development of media and information literacy in the country has been repeatedly recognized by international organizations. Successful media literacy projects became the basis for the EU Delegation in Georgia to grant funding to the Communications Commission. The project was designed to train around 500 teachers over a three-month period. However, due to high interest and demand, the project was extended by one month and trainings were provided to more than 200 additional teachers. Due to the high interest and demand from teachers, the Communications Commission plans to continue this training module until the end of the current academic year.