DIGI-YOUTH IMPACT: Menschenrechtsbasierte digitale Jugendarbeit für demokratische Teilhabe

Project Identity

  • Project Reference Number: 2026-1-IT03-KA220-YOU-000456717
  • Programme: Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships in Youth (KA220-YOU)
  • National Agency: IT03 – Agenzia Italiana per la Gioventù


Partner Countries and Organisations

  • 🇮🇹 Italy: EUROFORMAZ ASOCIACION AMIGOS DE EUROPA – Coordinator
  • 🇹🇷 Türkiye: EKOLOJİK GİRİŞİMCİLİK ve SANAT DERNEĞİ
  • 🇩🇪 Germany: ARSU Academy for Lifelong Learning and Development e.V.

Project Overview

DIGI-YOUTH IMPACT is a European Erasmus+ cooperation project aimed at strengthening the quality, innovation and recognition of youth work by integrating human rights, democratic participation and ethical digital governance into youth organisations.

The project focuses on enhancing youth workers’ competences, supporting young people’s meaningful digital civic engagement and establishing sustainable governance standards and institutional dialogue mechanisms across participating European countries.

Through research, capacity building, Civic Innovation Labs, youth-led digital initiatives and structured policy dialogue, the project will develop practical and transferable approaches for more inclusive, responsible and democratic digital youth work.


Key Areas

  • Human rights-based digital youth work
  • Digital citizenship and democratic participation
  • Ethical digital governance
  • Capacity building for youth workers
  • Youth-led civic innovation
  • Digital Civic Innovation Labs
  • Youth–municipality policy dialogue
  • European cooperation and knowledge exchange
  • Governance standards and institutional recognition
  • Sustainable Digital Democracy Forums


Significance and Added Value of the Project

  • Digital Empowerment: Strengthens the competences of youth workers and young people in digital civic participation.
  • Human Rights: Embeds human rights, inclusion and democratic values into digital youth work.
  • Youth Participation: Enables young people to develop and test their own digital civic solutions and prototypes.
  • Innovation: Combines training, digital tools, Civic Innovation Labs and experiential learning.
  • Policy Dialogue: Creates structured opportunities for dialogue between young people, youth organisations and public institutions.
  • European Impact: Facilitates the exchange of practices and knowledge between partner countries.
  • Sustainability: Develops governance standards, an Adoption Charter and permanent Digital Democracy Forumsto support long-term institutional impact.