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To enhance digital media skills of adults with disabilities using interactive learning settings to actively and constructively contribute to a fairer and more pluralistic representation of disability in social media.Digital media skills have direct relation to young adults with disabilities better social inclusion and capacity to tackle discrimination, segregation and cyberbullying while representing themselves on media. The studies at national level in Lithuania (LT), Italy (IT), Portugal (PT) and Austria (AT) provides quite common situation overview in all partner countries – the main image of the disabled people is formed by the professional journalists and media, while the potential of disabled people to represent themselves in media is not revealed. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities). Young adults generally possess a wider range of ICT skills, but not so much is known on the way how these new media represent diversity, in particular disability and disabled adult people, on the effect this representation (often stigmatisation) has on people with and without disabilities and on the way young people with disabilities participate in social media and the barriers they encounter (Ref.