DigitalCitizenDigitalCitizen – Digital Competencies for Citizen Engagement
Empowering citizens in digital competencies through micro-learning, legal literacy, data protection, and interactive 4D learning systems.
Official Project Mark
European Commission — Erasmus+ Program & DAAD
Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education (Project #2025-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000354815)
Duration: 36 Months
6 Partners
Universities, Industry & Research Centers
Project Description & Objectives
DigitalCitizen aims to empower citizens in digital competencies, including legal literacy (knowing and asserting digital rights and obligations), data literacy (interpretation, use, and protection of data), and protection literacy (learning resilience techniques and capability to self-defense by developing a 4D flipped classroom-inspired system that has micro-learning components and interactive mini-games to present the learning material in engaging, bite-sized components.
Petanux Specific Project Responsibilities
- •Interactive 4D learning system & micro-learning demonstrator architecture design
- •Gamified digital rights, legal literacy & data protection learning module development
- •Technical platform integration & micro-learning content delivery infrastructure
Project partners
University of Siegen
Petanux GmbH
C.I.P. Citizens in Power
The European Digital Learning Network ETS – DLEARN
The European Institute (EI)
Universidad de Granada
Operated and supported by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
This Erasmus+ project is officially managed and supported by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
Key highlights
Upskilling more than 400 HE community members on DigitalCitizen pillars
Flipped classroom learning platform with micro-learning in 6 languages (EN, DE, IT, ES, CS, EL)
Hackathons, workshops, and training sessions reaching 1,000+ citizens
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