This activity invites young people, youth workers, and youth organisations to explore the DigitalYOu platform, a unique online space designed to digitalize youth work, empower organisations, and foster meaningful connections across Europe and beyond.

• Discover how youth organisations can work, meet, and grow in a virtual environment.
• Reflect on the potential of digital tools for empowerment, participation, and innovation.
• Get inspired to use DigitalYOu or similar solutions to strengthen your organisation’s mission and outreach.

Get inspired

1. ENGAGE: A virtual office with innovative tools for managing organisational work.
2. EMPOWER: Virtual conference rooms where events are engaging, interactive, and fun.
3. CONNECT: Virtual fairs to showcase your organisation, exchange knowledge, and build partnerships.
4. VOLUNTEERING: A dedicated e-volunteering space to manage volunteers and share opportunities.

Take action: activities for different roles

• Explore the DigitalYOu introduction video and imagine how a platform like this could support your learning, volunteering, or activism. Or if working in an organisation that has this type of work tools would motivate you to join.
• Reflect on digital spaces you already use (social media, online events, volunteering platforms): what works, what doesn’t, and what inspires you?
• Sketch or describe your “ideal digital youth space” — what tools and opportunities should it include?

• Watch the introduction to DigitalYOu (video) with your group and discuss: How can digital spaces expand opportunities for young people?
• Map the tools you already use for digital engagement and consider how DigitalYOu could complement them.
• Facilitate a role-play or creative session: If our organisation had a virtual office, what would we do with it?
• Research other virtual platforms or tools in your area and compare them with DigitalYOu.

• Reflect with your team: how could DigitalYOu support your strategic goals in areas like inclusion, participation, or innovation?
• Explore partnerships: which organisations in your city could you connect with through virtual fairs?
• Consider how e-volunteering could expand your volunteer base beyond local borders.
• Imagine DigitalYOu as part of your long-term digital transformation strategy: what steps would you take to implement it?

Suggested follow-up activities include:

• Group discussions on digital transformation and its benefits/challenges for youth work.
• Workshops on digital citizenship, online safety, or managing virtual volunteering.
• Co-creation projects where young people design their own “digital youth spaces.”
• Networking with other Cities of Learning members to exchange digitalisation practices.

Claim open badge recognition

• Exploring virtual tools for organisation, connection, and empowerment via DigitalYOu.
• Reflecting on the role of digital platforms in participation and inclusion.
• Imagining innovative, youth-led uses of digital technologies that can inspire others across the Cities of Learning network.

Who created this resource?

• Start by exploring the DigitalYOu platform introduction and discover how its functions (virtual office, online events, digital fairs, e-volunteering) can support your organisation’s work.
• Then, continuing on the paltform, explore their e-learning modules.
• Finally, take a moment to reflect: What inspired or surprised you about DigitalYOu? Which function (Engage, Empower, Connect, Volunteering) would be most useful for your work or community? How could you integrate a similar platform into your organisation’s daily practice?
• Let this experience be a starting point: imagine, adapt, and create your own ways of using digital platforms to inspire learning, participation, and innovation in your group, your organisation, and your community.