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Young People’s Pathway to Co-designing Digital Youth Work
Young People’s Pathway to Co-designing Digital Youth Work
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This activity brings together all badges created from key resources on the Digital Youth Work platform, which is specifically designed for young people.
It supports you in recognising your digital learning journey, showcasing your skills across different areas, and connecting your achievements to a bigger picture of digital rights, independence, and creativity.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Take an active role in shaping digital youth spaces by contributing ideas and collaborating with peers;
- Think how you engage online, discuss challenges and opportunities, and gain insight into digital youth life
- Engage with and promote your digital rights through cross-role collaboration and concrete integration into practice
- Apply digital skills in real-life tasks and reflect on their impact on your everyday life, such as housing options or managing utilities.
Get inspired
As you explore digital youth work, you may already have joined activities and earned badges on topics such as:
- Your digital rights and online safety;
- Creative and playful uses of digital tools, games, and media;
- Using technology for inclusion and participation;
- Understanding and shaping the role of Artificial Intelligence in society;
- Building your digital identity and competencies;
- Co-creating safe and engaging online spaces with others.
These experiences demonstrate not only how you are learning but also how you are shaping the present and future of digital youth work.
Take action: reflect and collect.
This pathway invites you to complete various activities on the Digital Youth Work platform, earn badges, and collect them into your personal badge portfolio.
Watch this short video about the value and benefits of a badge portfolio to understand how your achievements can open new opportunities.
Claim open badge recognition.
By completing Digital Youth Work activities and earning their badge, you will qualify for a “Co-designing Digital Youth Work” meta-badge, recognising your active participation in co-designing digital youth work, competence development, and reflective learning.
Who created this resource?
This meta-activity has been developed by the Digital Youth Work partnership and Cities of Learning partners, based on all resources available through www.digitalyouthwork.net.
- Awero, Lithuania (Project Lead)
- Breakthrough Foundation, Netherlands
- Curaçao Innovation & Technology Institute (CITI)
- TiPovej! Zavod - Institute for Creative Society, Slovenia
Next steps
Use your badge collection to build a professional portfolio, contribute to digital youth work development, or apply your insights to your digital life or with peer or youth workers.
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Awarded to young people who complete a learning journey across multiple digital youth work themes and reflect on their personal experiences. This badge recognises your growth in digital skills, independence, and participation in shaping inclusive and creative digital spaces.
Skills and experiences gained:
This badge is aligned with the DigComp 2.0 framework, covering the five key areas of digital competence:
- Information and data literacy – Finding, evaluating, and using online information to make decisions (e.g., exploring housing options or understanding digital rights).
- Communication and collaboration – Engaging safely, responsibly, and inclusively with peers online; co-creating and shaping digital youth spaces.
- Digital content creation – Using digital tools creatively to express ideas, share reflections, or design content that supports youth participation.
- Safety – Protecting personal data, applying safe online practices, and understanding young people’s digital rights and ethics.
- Problem-solving – Applying digital skills in everyday life (e.g., managing utilities, organising personal tasks, navigating online platforms).
This badge signifies your dedication to personal growth, independence, and active engagement in the digital age. The Cities of Learning Network partners recognise this achievement and issue the badge based on your completed activities and reflective evidence.
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You will earn the Digital Youth Work Co-designer badge after completing Digital Youth Work activities tailored to young people and earn badges on the Digital Youth Work platform.
Activity:
- Explore the activities available on the Digital Youth Work platform and complete at least 60% of the activities relevant to young people’s digital learning and participation.
- For each completed activity, claim the corresponding badge on the platform.
Unlocking the meta-badge:
Once you have collected the badges, reflect on your overall digital learning journey:
- What new skills have you gained for your digital independence and autonomy?
- How have you contributed to shaping inclusive digital youth spaces?
- Which aspects of digital youth life do you want to explore further?
Add evidence:
Create a reflection (in the form of a written piece, blog post, video, or creative project) that brings together your learning journey. Submit your reflection to unlock the Digital Youth Work Co-designer meta-badge.
Δεξιότητες
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to assess their learnings after running their digital rights activities, and identify new ways of how to address them.
#Excellent Level. Empowers youth groups to use their critical thinking and imagination in order to discuss the ethical implications and find solutions to issues such as profiling, algorithmic filtering or algorithmic bias.
#Excellent Level. Supportes young people to improve their behaviours in looking for trustworthy sources or running their own online research.
#Excellent Level. Engages young people on equal footing in the planning, running and evaluation of digital activities; they are an integral part of the strategic approach to digital transformation.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people to create their communities, based on pre-set learning objectives, while reflecting on the results.
#Excellent Level. Supports young people who independently carries out their content production
#Fair Level. Participates regularly in local, national and/or international e-meetings and e-seminars.
Διοργανωτές
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
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