"Media literacy is a central key competence in a society, where everyday life and the working world are significantly influenced by digitisation. Thus, competencies in the digital world are becoming a central prerequisite for social participation and they are absolutely necessary for a successful educational and professional career.Dealing with digital media is part of everyday life in European families today, also and especially in rural areas. Children are more and more likely to come into contact with digital media, whether by observing their parents or siblings when using them or because they themselves use them. However, the relevance of digital media use for a child or adolescent and the direction in which media use develops depends to a large extent on the parents' media education.Adults often mistake fast and technical operating skills for extensive media literacy. However, children and adolescents need support above all in the selection of media content as well as in the processing and regulation of the period of use. Due to the location-independent and permanent access to digital content, parents have less opportunity to keep track of their children's content and usage times. There is therefore often great uncertainty with regard to the media education of their children.A major goal of the project is therefore to enable parents to deal with the topic and to provide them with sufficient information. One way to support parents in their media education tasks is to offer themed and institutionally detached parents' evenings. In this way, media-pedagogical knowledge and practical handouts can be imparted in a way that is suitable for everyday use in home education and can be developed together in a common exchange.Especially in rural regions across Europe, there is a lack of trained media educators. Parents and adults from different professional backgrounds, such as educational specialists or lecturers, can be the right partners in the future.The following activities will be implemented to achieve the project objective:1.Development of an advanced training concept for the realisation of topic-related and target group-oriented e-learning courses (adapted to different age groups of children) to qualify as MediaParent consultants in form of a curriculum.2.Development of an e-learning platform with target group-specific courses on various media education topics to qualify as a MediaParent consultant. Such a digital course offer, open to everyone, is not yet available, especially for this type of region. Due to the international cooperation, this platform would gain an innovative character.3.Establishment of a collection of practice-proven, topic-related and target-group-specific materials for preparation and follow-up as well as implementation of media-pedagogical parents' evenings. This collection of materials should relieve the ""voluntary"" consultants of time and work and so increase the willingness to hold a parents' evening.4.A suitable and to the regional conditions’ specific method for the evaluation of learning performance for future MediaParent consultants will be developed. The evaluation will be carried out through online-based test procedures. The participant will receive a certificate of participation as proof of acquired knowledge. As the competence assessment will be online-based, it is particularly suitable for rural areas.5.Development of a database as a background for a dynamic map in the frontend, which serves to find MediaParent consultants in the surrounding area. In addition, registered MediaParent consultants can use the platform for exchange and networking amongst each other and across national borders. Two planned conferences per partner country and an international training seminar are central elements of the dissemination of the project results. They are intended to reach parents and adults of all professional backgrounds, pedagogical professionals, social workers and lecturers as the direct target group. Support will be provided by stakeholders from the public and private education sector, such as kindergartens, schools, youth and social institutions or youth welfare offices, as well as representatives from politics and society.All results can be used independently and transferred to other thematic fields as well as to other European regions.With the international cooperation of partners from 5 European countries, important competences can be bundled and transferred. The necessity to carry out this project transnationally results from the fact that the problem of media literacy promotion of families is a general problem across all European countries. The digital networking through the Internet also increasingly requires transnational methods and strategies in the field of media education, which at the same time take into account the different national actualities."