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From Fatigue to Presence: Mindfulness in Online and Hybrid Learning

In the fast-changing world we live in, everything evolves quickly—often faster than we can process. Learning is no exception, and in the last decade it has increasingly shifted into digital spaces. Young people are especially sensitive to this, and youth workers feel it too as they try to hold space and create connection—even through a screen. Mindfulness can help restore presence where the mind becomes overloaded and the body tends to disappear.

Read the article of Sara Marzo

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education

In this article, I will share some thoughts on why I think AI is good news, why it is bad news, and look at the recent developments in the legislative and policy-making areas. Then I will focus on its use in education and non-formal education in particular. I will share a few creative ways I am using it, having a lot of fun with my groups of learners - and I admit, by myself. And I will include an essential list of recommended apps that I use - all with one big caveat, things change so fast in this field, that it’s hard to stay up to date.

Read the article of Carmine Rodi

The impact of hybrid forms of learning in Youth Work

The digital transformation of education, accelerated by global disruptions, has outlined hybrid learning as a cornerstone of modern educational approaches. In other words, hybrid learning sits right at the heart of how we teach these days. In summer 2025 I asked users, learners and beneficiaries of the HOP platform about their journey with it, as learners, course creators, educators and youth workers.

Read the article of Antonela Kotsoni

Digital transformation in cross-sectoral cooperation in Youth Work

The present article aims to analyse how digital transformation functions and acts as a driver for social boost by empowering more inclusive, participatory and interlinked forms and dynamics of youth work ecosystem, drawing on historical trajectories to the post-pandemic acceleration, synthesising contemporary theoretical perspectives, EU policy frameworks, and diverse empirical findings from youth sector and research studies.

Read the article of Silvia Crocitta

Glossary of online learning

The key terminology in online learning for better understanding.

The glossary

Spatial communication platforms

The proximity communication for engaging online meetings.

The platforms

Educational retro games

Free, educational retro games from the end of XX century.

The games

60+ and a dozen more every year

self-paced, open courses for youth work

18000+

users of the HOP platform

75%

of HOP learners spend few hours a week on an online course

46%

of HOP learners complete all courses they started


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Community of online learners in Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps.
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User friendly and intuitive for learners from different fields of European youth work.
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Diversity of possibilities how to deliver content for online courses’ authors and facilitators.
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Native tool ensuring prominent recognition and visibility of the European youth programmes.

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