DigiCiti successfully kicked-off in Belgrade, Serbia

During last week we kicked-off our brand new project “Pathway to Digital Citizenship Education”, which is implemented through the Erasmus+ programme (KA210-YOU, small-scale partnerships in the field of youth). The meeting took place on 7 and 8 July 2025, and our coordinator, Foundation ARKA welcomed partners from Croatia, Portugal and Greece in Belgrade at the House of Human Rights.

📍 The meeting was our first opportunity to meet and greet in-person, get to know each other’s work and jointly establish the important basis for cooperation in the following (almost 18 months) in the field of a growing topic – digital citizenship among young people.

During two days of intensive discussions and exchange of experiences:
🔹 we reminded ourselves of the project aims and activities,
🔹 we agreed on the dynamics of cooperation, communication and implementation,
🔹 we developed tangible plans for the main project intellectual outputs: development of a Training Kit on Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) and the Digital Game about DCE,
🔹 and, most importantly, we raised the team spirit and enthusiasm for everything that awaits us!

Ultimately, we confirmed that we all share the same vision – to empower youth workers, educators and activists to talk with young people about digital rights, responsible behavior on the Internet, critical thinking and active participation in the digital society. And this is what we will focus our project on – boosting capacities of those who directly work with young people to better understand the digital world and navigate it responsibly and safely.

⭐️ An added value of the project is that it is being implemented during the 2025 Year of Digital Citizenship Education declared by the Council of Europe, so we will aim to create synergies with events and activities implemented by other national and international stakeholders to boost exchange, learning and co-creation of informed digital citizens.

📣 Follow us for news about the project, the materials we will develop and the inspiring stories that come from this collaboration. Together we are building a path to a more responsible and fairer digital space!

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Project “Pathway to Digital Citizenship Education” aims to empower youth workers with the skills and tools needed to help young people navigate the digital world critically, responsibly and safely. The project is implemented by a consortium of youth organisations from Serbia (Foundation Arka), Croatia (Udruga Delta), Portugal (Red Cross Braga) and Greece (Innovation Hive) with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme. It started on 1 April 2025 and will last for 18 months.