Event in the frame of the German Children and Welfare Congress (DJHT).
14/05/2025 | 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM | Congress Centre Leipzig, seminar room 06/07 | More
DE: Digital Youth Work
Digital Youth Work is key innovation field for the development of Youth Work in Europe. However, digitalisation must be bound to normative frames such as Democracy, Rule of Law, or Human Rights in Europe. We discuss key aspects how digital youth work can become an innovation driver and how its related to learning democracy.
Organiser: The Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE) Network is a Europe-wide network devoted to promote active democratic citizenship and human rights through formal education, non-formal and informal education, and life-long learning.
Participants
- Markus Plasencia – Verein für Sozialprofil (Graz)
- Elisa Rapetti – DARE network
- Nils-Eyk Zimmermann – Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten (AdB)
- Moderator: Georg Pirker – AdB
Programme
1) Short presentation of the project DiYW ROAD – Digital Youth Work – right sensitive, open, accessible and democratic.
2) Discussion round with European Youth Workers.
3) Presentation / sharing of a practice assessment for the evaluation of DYW under aspects of democracy, rights, and education for democracy.
4) Presentation and discussion of relevant practices of digital education that feed into the fields of participation/media literacy, digital identity/self-management/well-being, sustainability/sustainability relevant for youth work and empowerment.
5) Joint design and assessment of practices by the participants based on selevted practices of digital youth work.
6) Fishbowl “Key markets for YW development in a Europe challenged by the multiple crisis: participation/media literacy, digital identity/self management/well-being, sustainability.”