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Section outline
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This module provides a foundational understanding of disinformation, exploring its definitions, characteristics, and impacts on public opinion and decision-making. It highlights the differences between disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, offering insights into why and how disinformation is used to undermine societal progress.
Objectives:
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- 1. Understand the concept and significance of disinformation.
- 2. Identify key tactics and strategies employed in spreading false narratives.
- 3. Develop awareness of the social and environmental consequences of disinformation.
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Students mustComplete the activity
Welcome to the POWER Project and the Clean Energy Cafés. Over the next five days, you will take part in an immersive learning experience at the intersection of clean energy and disinformation — combining lectures, hands-on scenarios, and collaborative workshops.In this opening session, you will disc
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This short questionnaire assesses your starting knowledge of clean energy and disinformation before the programme begins. It has 18 multiple-choice questions covering all five modules: disinformation fundamentals, clean energy sources, narratives and modus operandi, science communication, and practical application. There are no right or wrong answers that affect you — your results are anonymous and used only to measure learning across the week, by comparing this pre-test with the post-test on Day 5. Answer as best you can; if you are unsure, choose the option that seems most reasonable. It takes about 10–15 minutes.
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This interactive session builds directly on the lecture on Clean Energy Technologies (2.1.1) by putting theory into practice: you will explore real energy generation data from the POWER partner countries — Romania, Spain, Malta, and Moldova — using interactive visualisations based on Eurostat and IRENA open data. By comparing how each country generates its electricity, you will understand the different energy profiles across Europe, identify which clean energy technologies play the largest role in each national context, and discuss which technologies are most vulnerable to disinformation campaigns and why.
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This introductory workshop helps participants get acquainted with the POWER Project and form working teams through an interactive icebreaker activity focused on clean energy disinformation. Participants will explore examples of misinformation and fact-checking, share their experiences with online disinformation, and collaborate to build teams that will work together throughout the course. The activity promotes critical thinking, engagement, and teamwork while introducing key themes related to energy-related disinformation and resilience.
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Now that you know more about what constitutes disinformation, it's time to see actual disinformation content regarding the wider topic of climate change.
In this interactive session, you will explore real disinformation narratives about climate change.
By analyzing them you will discover how these narratives are built, what psychological, cognitive, narrative and social drivers they exploit in order to gain traction on social media.
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Welcome to the UM Campus for the Electric Cars Immersive Scenario, where you will have the chance of becoming disinformation investigators for a day.
Imagine you work as an analyst in a governmental organisation that is encountering instances of disinformation about electric cars and clean energy in general.
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