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Digital Citizens of Europe

2025-3-PT02-KA153-YOU-0003711632025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: PT|HU|IT|ES|DK · Grant: €21,234
Media literacy and tackling disinformationDigital youth workDemocracy and inclusive democratic participation

Objectives

The project Digital Voices, European Choices has been designed in response to a very concrete challenge: young people today are growing up in a world that is increasingly digital, but often lack the competences, guidance, and support to use online tools in meaningful, constructive, and democratic ways. Social media and digital platforms have become the spaces where youth interact, share opinions, and build communities. At the same time, these platforms are also where disinformation spreads rapidly, hate speech flourishes, and participation often remains limited to passive consumption rather than active engagement. Youth workers are on the front line of this reality, but many still feel underprepared to guide young people in transforming their digital presence into positive civic participation. By implementing this project, we want to address these needs and give youth workers across Europe the opportunity to develop the competences, tools, and confidence they need to integrate digital participation into their youth work practice. We believe that civic engagement cannot be separated from the digital sphere anymore: if we want young people to feel like active citizens of Europe, we must empower them to act where they already are — online. The project’s objectives are therefore both practical and strategic: To strengthen youth workers’ digital competences so they can design and implement campaigns that promote active citizenship, democratic participation, and European values. This includes digital storytelling, fact-checking, inclusive communication, and online mobilisation. To provide youth workers with innovative non-formal education tools that make digital literacy engaging and accessible. Through interactive methods such as simulations, debates, and creative labs, youth workers will learn how to adapt abstract topics like misinformation or online democracy into activities that resonate with young people. To encourage the use of digital platforms for positive change. Instead of perceiving social media as a space of distraction, youth workers will learn to reframe it as a powerful arena for participation, dialogue, and activism. To foster a European network of digital ambassadors. By bringing together organisations from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Hungary, and Denmark, we will not only exchange best practices but also create sustainable partnerships for future projects in the field of digital participation and civic engagement. To produce tangible, replicable outcomes — especially the EuroVoice Toolkit, a practical guide created during the training, which will collect methods, campaign templates, and lessons learned. This Toolkit will be made freely available and can be used by other youth workers and organisations beyond the project’s lifetime. From a youth work perspective, the project is about strengthening the role of youth workers as mediators between young people and the digital society they inhabit. Youth workers will leave the project better equipped to help young people critically evaluate information, express themselves authentically, and act collectively for causes that matter to them. In this way, the project directly supports the Erasmus+ goals of promoting active citizenship, inclusion, and democratic participation, while also ensuring that youth work evolves in step with the digital age.

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