About us
We see public libraries as playful spaces for critical thinking and active citizenship.
Escape Misinformation in the Library (ESC-MISINFO) is a European project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Running from 2025 to 2027, the project aims to strengthen young Europeans’ critical thinking skills in navigating today’s complex digital media landscape – combating misinformation and disinformation, with a focus on climate change. Through game-based learning activities and co-creation, we want to empower public libraries to embrace their role in non-formal education and youth work.
Escape room-style games, participatory workshops, and peer learning initiatives will equip young people with the tools to critically assess digital content, question sources, and understand the impact of online narratives – especially those related to environmental issues.
Over the next two years, ESC-MISINFO will also contribute to building the capacity of public libraries across Europe, helping them to become active hubs for youth engagement, digital literacy, and democratic participation.
What we want to achieve
ESC-MISINFO focuses on three main objectives:
- Equipping public libraries with the skills and tools to run inclusive, game-based media and information literacy activities for young people
- Enabling public libraries to engage young people through co-creation on the topics of misinformation and climate change
- Promoting and disseminating innovative non-formal education practices, creating a European community of practice around game-based media literacy in libraries.
Over the next two years, the project will:
- Localise two escape room games about misinformation and AI
- Develop a beta version of an escape room game on climate misinformation
- Develop a comprehensive toolkit for public libraries with co-creation frameworks and game-based media and information literacy methods
- Train 18 library staff and direct engagement of 180 youths in Belgium (Flanders), Slovenia, and Poland.
Our activities
Throughout its two-year timeline, the project partners will deliver an exciting mix of local and European-level activities including:
Escape room pilots
- Localisation and piloting of two escape room games in 9 public libraries in Slovenia, Poland, and Belgium.
- Engaging 180 young people in immersive, game-based learning about misinformation and climate change.
Training & capacity building
- Training of 18 library staff in Slovenia, Poland, and Belgium to lead game-based MIL activities.
- A webinar series for wider outreach and knowledge sharing among educators and youth workers.
Co-creation & peer exchange
- In-person and online peer learning sessions between young participants.
- Co-creation workshops to adapt escape room content to local contexts and youth interests.
Toolkit & resources
A practical toolkit for public libraries including:
- Guidance on game-based MIL methods
- Framework for co-creation activities
- Mapping of best practices across Europe
Dissemination & impact
- National multiplier events and a European final conference.
- Ongoing digital promotion and community-building across the EU.
The partners
The ESC-MISINFO project is led by a multidisciplinary consortium with expertise in youth engagement, game-based learning, media literacy, and public library innovation.
PL2030, Project coordinator
Public Libraries 2030 (PL2030) is a Brussels-based advocacy organisation and hub for innovative EU projects in the European public library sector.
PL2030 has curated a network of over 40 innovative ‘Lighthouse Libraries’ across over 20 European countries who are engaged in redefining the role of libraries within the themes of digital futures, sustainability, well-being, community, and democratic participation.
Alongside its EU-funded projects, PL2030 collaborates with major European library organisations to advocate for policies and funding that empower libraries to contribute to EU objectives while also enhancing capacity building and access to resources for public libraries across Europe.
Email: info@pl2030.eu
PiNA
The Koper-based Association for Culture and Education PiNA (KID PiNA) is one of the most active and diversely oriented Slovenian NGOs. Always simultaneously involved in several artistic, educational and civil society projects, PiNA also manages a multimedia centre and a separate cybercafe/event space. It has produced numerous research documents, booklets, documentaries and video manuals on everything from cultural management to human rights alongside an uncountable number of events.
PiNA’s enterprises are mostly focused on the coastal region, yet also extend across the Slovene borders as many of its activities have a transnational dimension. is a non‑profit organisation that drives digital innovation in arts and culture in Flanders and the Dutch-speaking part of Brussels. It acts as a bridge between local culture houses, public libraries, government bodies, tech partners, and creative initiatives to incubate and scale bottom‑up digital services.
Email: info@pina.si
Cultuurconnect
Cultuurconnect is a non‑profit organisation that drives digital innovation in arts and culture in Flanders and the Dutch-speaking part of Brussels. It acts as a bridge between local culture houses, public libraries, government bodies, tech partners, and creative initiatives to incubate and scale bottom‑up digital services.
Cultuurconnect empowers over 300 libraries to grow digitally and serve their communities better. We develop and manage essential digital infrastructure like lending systems, library websites, and online catalogues. We also provide access to digital content such as e-books, digital magazines, and interactive children’s books.
With tools like Mijn Leestipper, Bieblo, and Bibster, we help libraries engage readers of all ages in a personalized and playful way. Through a cooperative model, libraries co-create and steer our services, ensuring they evolve with the sector’s real needs, making the digital shift more accessible and future-proof.
Email: servicedesk@cultuurconnect.be
FRSI
FRSI (Information Society Development Foundation) is a non-governmental organisation based in Warsaw, founded in 2008. Our mission is to leverage new technologies to engage in the development of local communities across Poland. We implement programmes to promote digital education and civil society by working with libraries, NGOs and schools.
We support public libraries in their role as local centres of social activity and non-formal education through numerous projects to develop library services and working methods so that libraries can better meet the residents’ needs.
We work with NGOs to help them operate effectively, develop digital skills, implement new technologies in socially useful activities and strengthen the development of civil society. We also support teachers so that they know how to educate pupils to use new technologies critically, consciously and effectively.
Email: frsi@frsi.org.pl
CIP/UW
The Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington is a nexus for multidisciplinary research on misinformation and translating research into policy, technology design, curriculum development, and public engagement.
We do this through our strong networks of libraries, educators, and institutional partners.
Our nonpartisan Center brings together diverse voices from across industry, government, nonprofits, other institutions, as well as those from communities and populations typically underrepresented in research and practice in this field.
This interdisciplinary effort at the University of Washington is led by the Information School, Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the School of Law, with collaboration from numerous other university and community partners.
Email: uwcip@uw.edu
Want to learn more about our project?
Get in touch.
PL2030
info@pl2030.eu
FRSI
frsi@frsi.org.pl
PiNA
info@pina.si
Cultuurconnect
servicedesk@cultuurconnect.be
UW
uwcip@uw.edu
