Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe
Impetus for more socio-political learning of the digital
In the frame of the project: Digital Youth Work – Rights-sensitive, Open, Accessible, Democratic (DIYW-ROAD)
13 February 2026
11-13.00 CET online
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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.
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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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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.
On 15 and 16 July 2024, all partner organisations involved in the new international project ‘Digital Youth Work – rights sensitive, open, accessible and democratic’ (DIYW ROAD) from six European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Italy) came together for a kick-off meeting in Berlin.
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