Statements – DARE Network

September 7, 2026September 8, 2026

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 Rights Education in Europe) would like to propose a careful and honest stocktaking measure as a first priority in order to learn from the challenges and mistakes of the past, before decisions about new investments.

June 8, 2026August 20, 2026

Policy: Digital Youth Work and Democratic Participation in Digital Spaces

Key challenges, findings, European policy linkages, and recommendations from the project DIYW-ROAD

July 4, 2025July 8, 2025

European Space for Citizenship – DARE Hosted German Speaking Community Follow-up Meeting

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?

April 30, 2025April 30, 2025

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.

October 22, 2024November 13, 2024

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.

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Open letter to Council of Europe’s AI Convention negotiators: Do not water down our rights

DARE network calls on the State Parties and the EU negotiating the text of the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Democracy to equally cover the public and private sectors and reject blanket exemptions regarding national security and defense.

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024

Let’s Act for Global Citizenship Education!

We all belong: The role of GCE in supporting democratic participation and addressing current global challenges. Pointers for improvement and further recommendations. DARE supports SOLIDAR Foundation’s intiative.

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023

Supporting the Voice of Antiracism in Europe: DARE signed letter against the diffamation of the ENAR network

Supporting the voice of antiracism in Europe – the honourable ENAR network. DARE signed the support letter against the diffamation of antiracist work by François-Xavier Bellamy (European People’s Party) as “radical”. We and 57 other organisations request to denounce MEPs for using Parliamentary premises to defame and slander civil society organisations. As a concrete and hopefully efficient measure the open letter asks the EP to participate in Anti-Racism and Diversity Week.

OPEN LETTER to EC President Von Der Leyen and EP President Metsola

January 4, 2023January 29, 2024

Investment in education. DARE welcomes the position of Lifelong Learning Platform

DARE network – Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe supports the recommendations of the Lifelong Learning Platform.

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

Promotion of democratic education as integral element of strong democracy : DARE network supports Civil Society Europe’s proposal to the Defence of Democracy Package (2022)

The European Commission aims to “put forward a defence of democracy package to deepen the action under the European Democracy Action Plan to promote free and fair elections, to step up the fight against disinformation and to support media freedom and pluralism, including by developing civic space and citizen participation to bolster democratic resilience from within”.

Our partners from Civil Society Europe have recently published preliminary proposals from Civil Society.