DARE Network – Page 2 – Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe

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?

June 16, 2025August 13, 2025

Istanbul: Workshop on Design Principles for EdC-Teacher Qualification

During the first partner meeting the partners from the DeCiTeL Project met in the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul at for their first mutual workshop in the frame of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy.

June 13, 2025June 13, 2025

European Youth in the Digital Transformation and EDC/HRE

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.

June 13, 2025June 13, 2025

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?

May 22, 2025June 13, 2025

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).

Explore the Competence Explorer

May 9, 2025March 19, 2026

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).

DE/AT: Jugend in der digitalen Transformation. Der Beitrag der politischen Bildung und von Youth Work zu Pädagogiken des Digitalen und zum digitalen Empowerment in Europa PDF

BG: Европейската младеж в дигиталната трансформация. (short version) PDF

ES: La juventud europea en la transformación digital (short version) PDF

PT: A juventude europeia na transformação digital

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.

March 14, 2025July 21, 2025

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.

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.

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.