Publications – DARE Network

May 9, 2025November 7, 2025

Analysis: European Youth in the Digital Transformation. Digital Youth Work and Education for Democratic Citizenship

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.

January 8, 2025June 13, 2025

Transversal Education: Participation, Life, Career Path

A practical guide for educators. This guide can help to address cross-cutting competences that are important in different educational and professional contexts and in different areas of learning. In particular, the guide aims to emphasize the potential of skills acquired in active citizenship, democracy and human rights education and civic engagement for professional development.

September 30, 2024June 13, 2025

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).

May 27, 2024May 30, 2024

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.

January 8, 2024January 25, 2024

Card Game: Competences for Democratic Culture

Become competent in democracy! In the Competence card game, you playfully discover the competences that citizens need in a democratic and culturally diverse society: the Competences for Democratic Culture. Download the card game, print it, play it.

November 11, 2022January 23, 2023

Guide: Networking and Collaboration

Created in the project EntreComp 360, coordinated by Haskoli Island, supported by the European Union. With contributions of Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Haskoli Island, Bantani Education, Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative, Innogate to Europe SL, The Women’s Organisation Ltd , and Not a Bad Idea Ltd.

Editor: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (DARE network). Editorial support: Lisa Mc Mullan (The Women’s Organisation) and Candice Astorino (Bantani Education); Reykjavík/Liverpool, 2022

April 5, 2022January 23, 2023

Guide: Assessment and recognition in formal and non-formal learning in entrepreneurship education

Created in the project EntreComp 360, coordinated by Haskoli Island, supported
by the European Union. With contributions of Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Haskoli Island, Bantani Education, Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative, Innogate to Europe SL, The Women’s Organisation Ltd , and Not a Bad Idea Ltd.

Editors: Hazel Israel (Bantani Education). Editorial support: Svanborg Rannveig Jónsdóttir and Ramón Martínez; Editor of the EntreComp 360 guides: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (DARE network), Reykjavík/Brussels, 2022

April 5, 2022January 23, 2023

Guide: How can EntreComp support Women’s Entrepreneurship?

Created in the project EntreComp 360, coordinated by Haskoli Island, supported
by the European Union. With contributions of Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Haskoli Island, Bantani Education, Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative, Innogate to Europe SL, The Women’s Organisation Ltd , and Not a Bad Idea Ltd.

Editors: Lisa Mc Mullan (The Women’s Organisation) and Candice Astorino (Bantani Education); Editor of the EntreComp 360 guides: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann (DARE network), Reykjavík/Liverpool, 2022

March 8, 2022February 29, 2024

Facilitator handbook: Learning the digital

Digital transformation and digital competence from the practice of Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. Created in the frame of the project DIGIT-AL – Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship

M. Oberosler (ed.), E. Rapetti (ed.), N. Zimmermann (ed.), G. Pirker, I. Carvalho, G. Briz, V. Vivona.

Competendo Facilitator Handbook 2021/22, 176 pages

March 7, 2022January 23, 2023

Guide: EntreComp in Youth Work and Non-formal Learning

Created in the project EntreComp 360, coordinated by Haskoli Island, supported
by the European Union. With contributions of Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Haskoli Island, Bantani Education, Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative, Innogate to Europe SL, The Women’s Organisation Ltd , and Not a Bad Idea Ltd.

Editor: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann, Reykjavík/Brussels, 2021