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Youth work – dealing with shrinking spaces and polarisation?

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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Competence Explorer

A Tool to Make Competence Based Education a Reality


Too many com­petence models, too little overview? This ex­plorer com­pares different frame­works that address trans­versal compe­tences. It gives educators a rough insight into the different frameworks.

It can be used to check which competences are particularly relevant for one’s own work, or to check which competences one would like to work on further, either oneself or with the learners. The explorer also provides information on how each framework deals with certain transversal competences (competences that are important in many activities and contexts).

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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.

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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.

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Partner meeting of the LICEAL project hosted in Sanremo

Hosted by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL) in the wonderful Villa Ormond. DARE is partner in the project LICEAL – Linking Citizenship and Employability in Adult Learning. We gathered positive feedbacks on the final draft of guideline for educators, how to support the development of transversal competences and to connect citizenship and employability-related skills; and for the Training Design Step-by-Step. Practice oriented guide for educators.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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