Civic education

How can we move from talking about youth participation to genuinely practising it? That question brought together around 60 participants from across the DEAR Programme in Brussels on 17–19 June for the latest DEAR Exchange Hub...

For many young people, global challenges such as the climate crisis and gender inequality can feel overwhelming, distant, or difficult to act on. The Ecoality project responds to this by creating practical spaces where young...

Across Europe, conversations about migration are often loud, polarised, and distant from everyday experience. But in classrooms, something quieter – and more transformative – is taking place. Through the DEAR project Global...

The Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, in collaboration with the Communication and Journalism Educators’ Network (CJEN) Bangladesh, has selected eight Bangladeshi universities to participate in the AGILE Project, an EU...

At the TED Annual Meeting (16–17th of September 2025), WG2 members gathered under the banner Power in Participation. The session took stock of a year’s work and set priorities for the road ahead, against the backdrop of a volatile...

Lucia is a teacher at a secondary school in Florence. Sara and Lapo are two of her students. All three took part in “ Ecoality,” a DEAR project that explores climate justice and gender equality through the lens of eco-feminism...

“If you write about someone getting shot at, you can only imagine what they feel. But you have to know how people feel to tell their story.” Aqual, a primary school student, describes the power of “knowing and feeling” different...

Digital technology is everywhere, but not everyone knows how to use it safely and responsibly. The European Year of Digital Citizenship Education #DCEY2025 is about enabling people of all ages to become confident, conscious and...