"The private sector is good at fostering collaborations but also building products. It can only really do that meaningfully when it listens to partners, people on the ground, civil society, teachers, and students, people who are actually at the forefront of what experience they

As Head of @CoE Education, I was honoured to open #GlobalForum2025 in Prague with MatjazGrudenCOE and Radka Wildova DG for Higher Education in Czechia reaffirming that higher education is vital to democracy. 🇨🇦 Prof. Patrick Deane’s keynote called on us to resist rising

Two school communities — in Graz and in Nogent — have been shattered by horrific violence. Schools must be sanctuaries: places of learning, safety, and care for our youth. Our hearts are with the families and school communities. Our children are Europe’s future.

"Digital citizenship education is not only about detecting disinformation and being able to debunk it but maybe more importantly, to spread and teach values, that is, respect, care, empathy and increase trust in the digital space." Lusine Grigoryan, Media & Digital Literacy

How can digital citizenship education help address cyberbullying? Tito de Morais Tito de Morais from the Project "MiudosSegurosNa.Net" and Cristiane Miranda from the Project "Agarrados à Net" emphasise the importance of promoting an ethical use of technologies and learning about

"Digital citizenship education should be lifelong and life-wide. This is not only a question for schools or the burden of educators and teachers although those are first responders and are playing an important role. This is an issue which all walks of life have to be part of."

"If the youth does not get proper guidance from their own parents, maybe people of their own age, other members of the youth, could be able to guide them in a better way that actually speaks to them and in a manner that they themselves can comprehend and personally understand in

"These digital transformations are not only affecting the larger, wider society but particularly young people. That's because of the time spent on digital technologies. To foster digital well-being, we need this multistakeholder collaborative effort that includes the voices of

Save the Date! 🧭 Ensuring Quality Education in the AI Era 📅 8–9 October 2025 |📍Strasbourg Launch of the Council of Europe Compass for AI & Education — a practical framework built on four strategic components: 🔹 AI Literacy 🔹 Teaching and Learning with AI 🔹 Evaluation 🔹

"Always in history, older people were teachers of the younger generations. Now, we have the situation that, in some cases, youngsters can be better digital citizens technically, and we should learn from them. But youngsters should understand that they are not so good at

📢 Just launched: the Council of Europe Centre for Preventing and Countering Education Fraud! MoU signed today by Deputy SG Bjørn Berge & CIMEA DG Luca Lantero. Fighting diploma mills, fake degrees & AI-enabled cheating—together. #EducationIntegrity #CoE #CIMEA

How to outsmart disinformation and protect free speech? Participants in the Satellite event of the Council of Europe Hackathon, held at the European Youth Centre Budapest on 20 June, share some advice on best ways to detect false information ⤵️ Learn more about the European

Join the Digital Citizenship Poster and Short Film Competition! The Council of Europe invites you to take part in the International Digital Citizenship Poster and Short Film Competition, part of the European Year of #DigitalCitizenshipEducation 2025! 💡 What does it mean to be

"Many parents are not aware that their children are watching them all the time and if they use digital devices all the time, children think that this is really important and that might be more important than they are to the parent." Arja Krauchenberg Arja Krauchenberg, Project Coordinator

"Citizens should be autonomous and independent to choose the way they want to interact and use technology and the new implementations of artificial intelligence without fear. Fear is the result of a lack of resources. So, let’s give people resources. Let’s allow people to become

"We know that critical thinking is absolutely crucial. We also know that we need to help children to adopt empathy when they are online, to put themselves in other people's shoes and to feel empowered when they are in the online spaces." Jenna Khanna Jenna Khanna @ Common Sense, Director of

"There is a lot of potential to use video games more meaningfully for education, not only formal, but also informal or non-formal education. There is potential to use video games also to learn about issues like digital citizenship." Veronica Donoso, Research Officer,

"The most important thing is to trust your gut, open a dialogue, limit polarisation and be able to be completely empowered when you are in front of your feed alone, with your own social media, with their own advertising mechanisms." Rayan Temara, Outreach and Policy Officer at