Digital Youth Work

Digital Youth Work. Rights-sensitive, open, accessible, democratic. 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 acting in society and civically engaged. Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education can make a meaningful contribution to digital youth work. On this page you find the resources created in the project DIYW-ROAD.

Publications

More than Go with the Flow

From platform users to active citizens. Competendo Facilitator Handbook.

Publication date: 01/03/2026

Authors: Zimmermann, N.; Plasencia-Kanzler, M.; Rapetti, E.(2026). More than Go with the Flow. From platform users to active citizens. Competendo Facilitator Handbook, Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe, Brussels. https://competendo.net/en/More_than_Go_with_the_Flow

Content: The socio-political in digitalisation. Identity - Let’s rethink identity in a connected world. Enforce more democracy. Aspects of democratic governance of ‘the digital’. Environment - Critically examining the impact of digitalisation. Active citizenship - Engagement for democratic digital transformation.

EN: More than Go with the Flow
DE: Mehr als mit dem Strom schwimmen

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

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.

Publisher: DARE – Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe vzw., Brussels 2024, 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).

Authors: Nils-Eyk Zimmermann & Georg Pirker

https://dare-network.eu/digital-youth-work/

Unless otherwise stated, authors and editors of the methods published in the project are Elisa Rapetti, Markus José Plasencia Kanzler, and Nils-Eyk Zimmermann

Supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union

Project partners

Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten
Country: DE Web
Sozialprofil - Verein zur Förderung individueller, institutioneller und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung
Country: ATWeb
DARE - Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe
Country: BE more
Partners Bulgaria Foundation
Country: BG Web
Fundación CIVES
Country: ES Web
Associação Dinamo
Country: PT Web

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More than Go with the Flow

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

Methods Created in the project DIYW-ROAD

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