The European cooperation project ECODE, Ethical Common and Open Digital in Education, began in December 2025. ECODE promote digital citizenship through non-formal education and aims to promote ethical, free use of digital technology and digital commons.
It follows on from the European ECHO Network project, during which we built a network of organisations working on ethics and digital, and produced educational resources and advocacy materials available online : https://echo-network.eu/
During the 24-month project, consortium members will develop training and advocacy content based on both local experiments and the sharing of expertise among European partners.
Objectives
Project partners
- Enabling youth workers to deliver digital education initiatives promoting the free and critical use of digital technologies.
- Providing youth workers with tools to promote free and ethical digital technology in education within civil society and the political sphere.
- Strengthening our network of actors at European level committed to free and ethical digital education
During these two years, we will produce and disseminate:
- European training focused on digital issues and existing alternatives (training framework and tools, educational approaches and activities), with a focus on the following topics: European and legal context, ecology, AI, inclusion
- a guide enabling other organisation to replicate the methods used to design training courses.
- A roadmap for youth workers in Europe, enabling them to advocate for free, ethical and sustainable digital technology based on Echo Network’s advocacy work.
Project’s activities
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| Kick off meeting | 28,29,30 and 31 january 2028 in Paris, France |
Second transnational meeting | 15 to 20 of June 2026 in Patras, Greece |
| Local test of the training modules | September 2026 to June 2027 This phase will take place in several French regional associations. |
Third transnational meeting | March 2027, Rome, Italie |
| European training in Bruxelles | December 2027, Bruxelles |
| Final Event | December 2027, Bruxelles |
This project also helps to maintain and consolidate links on the subject with a wider circle of “project partners”, particularly at national level:
- France: l’INJEP, le Cnajep, le collectif EducPopNum et Framasoft
- Belgium : Tactic ; Habitant·es des images
- Greece : Game Developer Association Greece ; Cyclisis
- Italy : VerdeBinario ; IMAS ; La craovana ; Xena ; MCE
- European scale : All digital ; European Association for Education of Adults