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.
Libraries are changing and have long since proven their importance for the 21st century: as places of learning, reading, collaboration or reflection on the past and future. Above all, they are important elements of the democratic infrastructure of our society. The best place, therefore, for a project launch, made possible by the modern Schiller Library on Leopoldplatz in Berlin’s Wedding district.
Over the next two years, the project team will examine the digital transformation from the perspective of political education for and with young people. Educational materials will be developed, digital and youth education policies discussed, and the results fed into European and national policy discourses in our countries.
The project partners:
Sozialprofil – Association for the Promotion of Individual, Institutional and Social Development (Graz/Austria)
Rede Inducar (Gondomar/Portugal)
Fundación CIVES (Madrid/Spain)
Partners Bulgaria Foundation (Sofia/Bulgaria)
Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE)