The DIGITAS (Digital Asylum-Seekers – Media education crash course for parents andgrandparents) project arose from the need for a media education-related training actionfocused on trainers and teachers working with parents and older learners that is NOTconfined within a ‘protectionist’ paradigm and is aimed at the ‘demystification’ of media.DIGITAS training action assumes that:• (multi)media is here to stay• that the advance of digital technologies has contributed to the emergence of newcultural forms that exclusively require multimodal literacies• some cultural practices of youth, ‘born’ into various multimodal literacies at work, offerconsistent opportunities for inter-generational and family learning.DIGITAS will produce a training course available on the Comenius-Grundtvig TrainingDatabase and which will be delivered to adult education trainers and teachers. Such acourse is envisaged to have an online self-directed version running on an Open SourceVirtual Learning Environment. Both the online and the ‘offline’ versions are supportedby a handbook for trainers and a handbook for learners (available in a book format bythe end of the project) and by the project website - designed from the beginning as avirtual resource centre.In the context of an ongoing consolidation of a European policy on media literacy, theimpact of the project will be to contribute to the dismantling of the ‘protectionist’paradigm, particularly in the area of parent education and learning in later life, while atthe same time drawing attention to a neglected concern regarding the acquisition of‘soft’ skills in relation to the use of ICT and new/digital media.