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Report: Living Together in a Polarised, Digital World

Youth Values, Belonging and New Directions for Education

This report explores what “living together” means in a polarised and digital world, focusing on young people, their values, sense of belonging, and the role of education. Based on desk research, survey data, and focus groups with young people, educators, and youth workers from different European contexts, it examines how democratic values are understood and experienced today.

The findings show that young people generally support values such as human rights, equality, and tolerance, while also facing low trust, fragmented belonging, online polarisation, misinformation, and emotionally charged digital environments. The report highlights the importance of empathy, resilience, communication, and meaningful relationships, and points to the need for educational spaces that are safe, engaging, and rooted in experience.

Rather than introducing new values, the report calls for rethinking educational environments so that democratic competences can be practised in everyday life and young people can better navigate diversity and uncertainty.

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