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).
Digital Competence is a Socio-political Competence. DigComp Consultation
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.
Continue reading “Digital Competence is a Socio-political Competence. DigComp Consultation”European Space for Citizenship Education: An Important Initiative
The DARE networks welcomes the effort of the Council of Europe to create a European Space for Citizenship Education (ESCE) during the next two years.
In close cooperation with the Council of Europe Education Department, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Movement, the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and the Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK), DARE was involved in co-organising the Launching Conference of the European Space for Citizenship Education in Berlin from 17-18 October 2024.
Continue reading “European Space for Citizenship Education: An Important Initiative”Project DIYW-ROAD: Digital Youth Work – rights sensitive, open, accessible and democratic
Digital transformation is a process that affects the whole of society – the economy, the state, politics, civil society or the environment. In order to empower young people to go beyond ‘catching up’ or ‘getting to know’ digital infrastructures and technologies, a pedagogy of ‘the digital’ is needed that supports them to co-determine how digitalisation should evolve in terms of democratic and sustainable development and in the areas in which they are civically engaged. Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education can make a meaningful contribution to digital youth work.
Continue reading “Project DIYW-ROAD: Digital Youth Work – rights sensitive, open, accessible and democratic”Public Event: Neutrality – an ever demanding task for educators? Uncovering anti-pluralist strategies
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 | European Parliament | In the frame of the Lifelong Learning Week 2024
Hosted by:
- MEP Ana Catarina Mendes (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
Tool: Training Design Step-by-Step
This tool supports educators in designing competence-oriented learning processes – with a focus on transversal competences that are relevant in many areas of life and social roles. Supplement to the guidelines for educators: Empowering Adults: Life, Career Path, and Active Citizen. Created in the project LICEAL Linking Citizenship and Employability Perspectives in Adult Learning.
With practical checklists. Available in English and German (Italian, French and Spanish translations will be published by early 2025).
Continue reading “Tool: Training Design Step-by-Step”LICEAL-Project: Practice and Policy between Citizenship and VET

Partner Meeting in Turin (IT) at September 10-12, 2024.
On invitation of the partner organisation S-Nodi (Comitato Promotore S-NODI Gabriele Nigro), DARE was participating in the partner meeting of the LICEAL project. Accomodated in the space of the historic Barolo Social District (Opera Barolo), the partners planned the last year of activities in the project.
Continue reading “LICEAL-Project: Practice and Policy between Citizenship and VET”Open Call: Capacity-Building Workshop: Linking Citizenship and Employability – July 9th online
Date: 9th July | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM; 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Format: Online
Language: English
This workshop is designed to build a European team of
facilitators capable of integrating citizenship and
employability competences into adult learning practices.
The workshop has two main goals:
Blue Lines: Linking Citizenship and Employability
Analytical Review of Practices and Initial Conclusions.
By Laurent Labrot, Sciences Po Grenoble & Association EDIAS with an introduction by Georg Pirker, Elisa Rapetti, Nils-Eyk Zimmermann, Brussels, 2024, 76 pages.
SALTO Participation Resource Pool
SALTO created a new Participation Resource Pool in order to open trainers, youth workers, youth leaders and educators access to the up-to-date online tools, materials and newest trendbest practices, up-to-date training materials and hands-on tools. Among others, visitors find here a Resource Pool and a Flagship Projects Collection. The projects in the collection are not simply presented in a classic manner, but in an editorially prepared form.
- In addition to 39 current projects, our project DIGIT-AL – Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship can also be found in the collection.