DEMOCRACY TALK 21 Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: Life Skills Education as a Pathway to Democratic Leadership –
2025-04-23 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for the 21st Democracy Talk with Sudha S. Reddy, Director of Eco Foundation for Sustainable Alternatives on April 23rd at 3pm CET.
Don’t miss out this enriching discussion and tune in LIVE on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/@democrathorizon

Democracy Talk 22: The AECED project presents – what is democracy in the process of becoming?
2025-05-21 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for the 22nd Democracy Talk on May 21 2025 where we will speak with Sandra Wallenius-Korkalo & Karen Mpamhanga from the University of Lapland & the University of Hertfordshire on what is democracy in the process of becoming.
Don’t miss out this enriching discussion and tune in LIVE on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/@democrathorizon

Democracy Talk 23: VEU i BOT (SPITEC) Best practices of child and young people participation
2025-06-18 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for our 23rd Democracy Talk on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, at 3pm CET! 🗓️
We’re very happy to welcome Andrea Viejo Palacios of the Federation of parent association of students in Catalonia (aFFaC). She will present the project
“VEU i BOT (SPITEC) Best practices of child and young people participation”.
🌍📚 Don’t miss out this enriching discussion and tune in LIVE on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/@democrathorizon

Democracy Talk 24: Critical Change Lab | Exploring youth engagement with emerging ecosocial challenges
2025-07-16 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Join us for our 24th Democracy Talk on Wednesday, July 16th, 2025, at 3pm CET! 🗓️

We’re very happy to welcome Laura Malinverni of the University of Barcelona. She will present the project
“Critical Change Lab: exploring youth engagement with emerging ecosocial challenges”.

🌍📚 Don’t miss out this enriching discussion and tune in LIVE on YouTube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/@democrathorizon

Conference on Education for Democracy
2025-11-20 00:00 - 2025-11-21 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) | University of Barcelona, Diagonal, 690-696, Barcelona, 08034, Spain
Event Overview
The DEMOCRAT conference on Education for Democracy aims to contribute to the debate about the role of civic education, and in particular democratic education, in fostering the resilience of the EU model of democracy.
Democracy is conceived not only as a political order, but also as a means of making collective, binding decisions in everyday life. Democracy is not a natural order. It has been achieved through social movements over the centuries and must be learnt and experimented with continuously in everyday life.
We believe that Education for Democracy can be implemented in schools and educational institutions not just through civic education classes, but as a distinctive pedagogical approach that acknowledges aesthetic, embodied and mutual learning, as well as co-creation.

Click here for the conference programme and more details.
Event Details
📅 Dates: November 20-21, 2025
📍 Venue: Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa
📍 Address: Diagonal, 690-696, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
🎯 Focus: Education for Democracy, Civic Education, Democratic Citizenship
Key Focus Areas:

Democratic citizenship education as a holistic pedagogical approach
Aesthetic, embodied, and mutual learning methodologies
Co-creation and bottom-up educational innovation
Grassroots initiatives in democratic education
Policy frameworks supporting educational transformation

Who Should Attend

Educators & Teachers seeking innovative democratic education approaches
Educational Researchers focused on civic and democratic education
Policymakers involved in educational policy development
NGO Representatives working in civic education and democracy
Students & Young Leaders interested in democratic participation
Government Officials from education departments

Registration & Participation
Register Now: https://www.activacongresos.com/forms/democracy/

This conference represents a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research, practical innovations, and policy discussions that will shape the future of democratic education in Europe and worldwide.
Organizers & Support
Funded by: The European Union (Horizon Europe Programme)
Supported by: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d’Educació i Formació Professional
In Collaboration with: Universitat de Barcelona
Collaborators:

AECED Project: The AECED project aims to enhance democracy through a research-based, innovative aesthetic and embodied pedagogical framework that fosters democratic attitudes, values, and active citizenship by enabling experiential, reflective learning that deepens awareness of self and others, nurtures ethical impulses, and promotes new ways of seeing and relating democratically.
Critical ChangeLab Network: Critical ChangeLab aims to build a resilient European democracy by empowering young people to envision and act on alternative democratic futures through civic interventions, using a flexible, arts- and technology-based democratic pedagogy grounded in a bottom-up approach that fosters ownership of everyday democracy and drives justice-oriented transformation, implemented by partners in 9 EU countries and tested across 15.
