Taibi, DavideBörsting, JohannaHoppe, H. UlrichOgnibene, DimitriHernández Leo, DaviniaEimler, SabrinaKruschwitz, Udo2023-06-292023-06-292023Taibi D, Börsting J, Hoppe U, Ognibene D, Hernández-Leo D, Eimler SC, Kruschwitz U. The role of educational interventions in facing social media threats: overarching principles of the COURAGE project. In: Fulantelli G, Burgos D, Casalino G, Cimitile M, Lo Bosco G, Taibi D, editors. Higher education learning methodologies and technologies online: 4th International Conference, HELMeTO 2022, Palermo, Italy, September 21–23, 2022, Revised Selected Papers; 2022 Sep 21-23; Palermo, Italy. Cham: Springer; 2023. p. 315–29. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29800-4_25978-3-031-29799-11865-0929http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57401Comunicació presentada a 4th International Conference (HELMeTO 2022), celebrada del 21 al 23 de setembre de 2022 a Palerm, Itàlia.Social media are offering new opportunities for communication and interaction way beyond what was possible only a few years ago. However, social media are also virtual spaces where young people are exposed to a variety of threats. Digital addiction, discrimination, hate speech, misinformation, polarization as well as manipulative influences of algorithms, body stereotyping, and cyberbullying are examples of challenges that find fertile ground on social media. Educators and students are not adequately prepared to face these challenges. To this aim, the COURAGE project, presented in this paper, introduces new tools and learning methodologies that can be adopted within higher education learning paths to train educators to deal with social media threats. The overarching principles of the COURAGE project leverage the most recent advances in the fields of artificial intelligence and in the educational domain paired with social and media psychological insights to support the development of the COURAGE ecosystem. The results of the experiments currently implemented with teachers and students of secondary schools as well as the impact of the COURAGE project on societal changes and ethical questions are presented and discussed.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2023. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29800-4_25Virtual Learning CompanionSocial Media EducationArtificial IntelligenceSocietal Changesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess