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The Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE network) is a Europe-wide network devoted to promote and strengthen active democratic citizenship and human rights through formal, non-formal and informal education, and life-long learning.
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DARE position to: Quality education for all: a 2040 roadmap
Background: The EU Commission opened a Call for evidence (2026) for the new Education Package and asked citizens and all other relevant stakeholders for feedback. The initiative aims at “improving the performance of school education in the age of AI.” Read here DARE network’s position: Stocktaking and learning from previous activities DARE (Democracy and Human…
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Critical Youth Work 2026
Rethinking and re-imagining conceptual approaches, (un)learning democracy and human rights under rapidly changing conditions. A networking conference for YOU(th) workers, EDC/HRE trainers, educators, facilitators, youth researchers, and activists 23.08. – 28.08.2026, European Youth Education and Meeting Centre in Weimar
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Council of Europe: Recommendation on Peace Education by, with and for young people
On 8 July 2026, the Committee of Ministers adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2026)11, calling on member States to strengthen peace education by, with, and for young people. It includes also Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on peace education by, with and for young people – and contributes in this way to…
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Lifelong Learning Platform GA 2026 and Project Digital Youth Work: Education & AI
The Digital Youth Work – Rights-sensitive, Open, Accessible, Democratic (DIYW-ROAD) project’s final activity took us to Brussels between June 29 and July 1, 2026. This is where the General Assembly of the LLLP—the European platform for lifelong learning, of which DARE is a member—took place. The focus was on digitalisation.
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Policy: Digital Youth Work and Democratic Participation in Digital Spaces
Key challenges, findings, European policy linkages, and recommendations from the project DIYW-ROAD
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Roundtable: Digitality, Education and Youth Work in the EU
Key challenges, findings, European policy linkages, and recommendations Wednesday, 01. July 2026 | 9-11:30 am | Brusselsat Lifelong Learning Platform, Rue Des Deux Eglises 14-16 | 1000 Bruxelles | BelgiumRegistration: under this link (links to Framaforms)Questions: Email to Nils-Eyk Zimmermann, nz@dare-network.eu Hosted by:
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DARE TrendsLab and General Assembly 2026
Intensive and inspiring days at the DARE TrendsLab and General Assembly 2026 are behind us. The DARE members exchanged about practice and policy. They discussed the development of the DARE network which will look forward to the 25th anniversary in the next year. The citizenship-related competence framework currently developed as part of the EU Key…
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Critical Thinking in the Digital Age
From 21 to 23 April 2026, Timișoara (Romania) became a meeting place for European professionals from the fields of youth work, education and digitalisation. Also the DIYW-ROAD project had the opportuniyt to contribute to the meeting organised by the CoE-EU Youth Partnership.
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Fundamental Rights in Daily Actions of Social Workers: Case Studies Published
The F.R.I.D.A.S. project deals with fundamental rights in daily actions of social workers. It published recently a case study collection with 46 real-life cases of human rights violations, discrimination, and vulnerability, social inclusion, presented through didactic cards accompanied by corresponding audio versions.
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Digital Citizenship Education Handbook: More than Go with the Flow
2025 | Digital Citizenship Education | Languages: EN, DE, BG, ES, PT, IT