Shaping a Democratic Future: European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025

How to empower learners for a democratic future? How to equip all learners with the necessary skills, values, attitudes and knowledge to navigate effectively in the digital environment? The Council of Europe is organising the launch conference of the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025 on 23-24 January 2025 in Strasbourg to raise awareness of the value of digital citizenship education and highlight its key role in helping build inclusive and democratic societies.

The European Year of Digital Citizenship Education 2025 is a unique opportunity to drive forward the implementation of digital citizenship education across Europe. Throughout the year, this initiative will emphasise the benefits of implementing such education in all different settings (formal, non-formal and informal education) highlighting how it helps tackle hate speech, cyberbullying, discrimination, disinformation, privacy concerns and many issues related to the responsible and ethical use of digital technologies.

The Launch Conference will focus on presenting the key objectives of the European Year 2025, an overview of the current state of digital citizenship education and recommendations on how to implement it and on how to address related challenges. Through the interactive workshop sessions, government experts, educators, learners, academics, representatives from civil society and the private sector will have the opportunity to share their sense-making practices and lessons learned and contribute to developing a road map 2026-2036 for digital citizenship education.

The working languages for the conference will be English and French (interpretation will be provided).

Everyone can make a difference and spread the word about the importance of digital citizenship education. The European Year will encourage all stakeholders to show their support and take action.

Learn, Connect, Engage, Thrive Together!

Launch Conference - webpage

Concept note