From 17 to 22 May 2026, twenty-seven youth workers from sixteen countries across Europe came together in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the TRUTH4YOUTH training of trainers programme, Digital Disciplined Citizenship.
The name is worth pausing on. Not digital literacy, not digital safety. Discipline, in the sense of a practice you keep up rather than a skill you acquire once. Checking a claim is a habit, and habits are what the week was built to teach.
The programme was not designed in advance. It was designed from the evidence. Every partner had run a national exchange of views session in the spring, ours on 23 April, and each of those produced structured minutes, a participant register and a baseline survey. Those national reports were combined into the project dialogue report, and that report decided what the six days contained. The gaps young people named are the gaps the training addresses.
Three findings from the Slovenian session were recognisable in the room. Young people rate their own digital skills highly but rate their ability to judge a source much lower. Most have never been taught how to check a claim. And the reason they give for not checking is almost never that they do not care, it is that they do not have the time.
A training of trainers is not the end of anything. What twenty-seven people carried out of Sofia was a method they can now run themselves, in their own language, with their own young people. For gamingHOUSE that means the local work in Slovenia that follows.