Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe
How can teacher training and qualification adapt to current polarisation? What potential lies in cooperation? What role do Erasmus+ Teacher Academies play?
Fri, 12 Dec 2025, 09:00-09:55 AM
Kamilou Joseph II, 36 rue Joseph II, 1000 Bruxelles
Organised by: the DeCiTeL project, Euroclio, DARE Network & OBESSU
The international HUB of the European DIYW-ROAD project took place in Madrid, hosted and organised by the Fundación CIVES. From September 23 to 25, 2025, European specialists, education professionals, and civil society representatives reflected on the role of digital technology as a space for inclusion, creativity, and democratic participation, but also on the inequalities and ethical challenges it poses. They also considered how to improve citizen participation and involvement in digital policy rules, including through better education.
Continue reading “Digital Youth Work Hub 2025”The Democratic Citizenship Teaching and Learning (DeCiTeL) project aims to improve teacher education policies and practices across Europe. A collaboration between higher education institutions, formal and non-formal citizenship education providers and European networks, it will develop and trial innovative teacher training methods and provide teachers with authentic international learning experiences.
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How is the Council of Europe’s European Space for Citizenship Education structured? What other European policy frameworks require our attention and what challenges exist for the various fields of work in civic education? How do we want to take up and shape the European processes initiated by the Council of Europe?
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During the first partner meeting the partners from the DeCiTeL Project met in the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul at for their first mutual workshop in the frame of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy.
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Exchange at Europe@DJHT 2025 in Leipzig
How can Education for democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education empower young people to critically question digitality, shape it sustainably and have a say in society? These questions are at the heart of the Europe-wide Analysis on Digital Youth Work which was presented on 14 May 2025 as part of the europe@DJHT program at the 18th German Child and Youth Welfare Day.
In the well-attended workshop, Elisa Rapetti (DARE Network) together with Nils-Eyk Zimmermann and Georg Pirker (Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e. V., Berlin) and Markus Plasencia-Kanzler (Sozialprofil, Graz) presented the results of the 107-page analysis.
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Panel at Europe@DJHT 2025 in Leipzig
How does youth work manage to deal with changing and shrinking civil society spaces and social and political polarisation? This was the topic of a fishbowl during the 18th DJHT at Europe@DJHT on 14 May 2025, once again addressing the questions raised in 2024 with the Critical Youth Work conference.
Lukas Zorad (Partners for Democratic Change, Slovakia), Barbara Santibanez (European Institute of Education and Social Policy, France) and Georg Pirker (AdB) discussed together with Ajsa Hadzibegovic (Youth For Europe) how youth work can support effective political participation of young people in this context: How does youth work navigate through changing and shrinking civic spaces as a field of work and advocacy for young people? How does youth work develop in societies with authoritarian dynamics?
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Too many competence models, too little overview? This explorer compares different frameworks that address transversal competences. It gives educators a rough insight into the different frameworks.
It can be used to check which competences are particularly relevant for one’s own work, or to check which competences one would like to work on further, either oneself or with the learners. The explorer also provides information on how each framework deals with certain transversal competences (competences that are important in many activities and contexts).
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Cite: Zimmermann, N. & Pirker, G. (Ed.) (2025). European Youth in the Digital Transformation. How Education for Democratic Citizenship/ Youth Work could contribute to pedagogies of digitality and digital empowerment. Analysis and conclusions from the DIYW-ROAD project. Digital Youth Work – rights-sensitive, open, accessible, democratic. Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE Network), Brussels.
107 pages, DARE network, 2025
Contributors: Rapetti, E. (DARE Network), Rosende, P. A. (Funcacion CIVES), Fernandes, F. (Dinamo), Plasencia, M. (Sozialprofil), Kolarova, D. (Partners Bulgaria Foundation), Kacheva, A. (Partners Bulgaria Foundation).
German: Jugend in der digitalen Transformation. Der Beitrag der politischen Bildung und von Youth Work zu Pädagogiken des Digitalen und zum digitalen Empowerment in Europa.
The European Digital Competence Framework DigComp will receive an update. DARE was involved at various points: With our proposals for Learning Outcome descriptions, in the Community of Practice and currently with a contribution to the Europe-wide consultations. The aim is to publish the next version – DigComp 3.0.
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