Policy, research and practice have all equally observed both high need and great pressure to improve the education and training regarding digitalisation in youth work. Our project “Digitalisation: from spaces of fear to spaces of freedom” responds to this need and translates the triangle of policy, research and practice into its project design.Through our project, we develop a systemic approach that adapts the European Reference Framework for Digital Competences (DigComp) for the training of youth workers on digitalisation in a two-step methodology.The first step is the qualification of youth workers as competent digital actors in the context of their own professional community. To this end, we adapt the European Union’s Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp in its current version 2.1) to the context of youth work. We develop a self-assessment instrument for youth workers, then design curricula as well as open educational resources for modular trainings on the competence areas of the framework, test the curricula and resources in pilot modules, and then publish the refined curricula and resources under a free license for use by the entire youth sector.The second step is the qualification of youth workers as specialists on digitalisation in youth work. To this end, we translate the recommendations of the European Commission’s Expert Group on “Digitalisation and Youth” into practice, and again develop curricula as well as open educational resources to address the competence areas identified by the expert group, test them, and make the final versions available under a free license.We support the recognition of the learning youth workers acquire through our modules by developing a youth-work-specific version of the DigComp certification process (DigCompYouthWork).An accompanying podcast will address the challenges as well as the potentials of digitalisation for youth work in a decisively unagitated manner, and contribute to a calmer and more informed discourse on digitalisation.A sector-wide conference on digitalisation in youth work will conclude the project and lead to the creation of a European network on digital youth work.Feel free to visit our project website at digitalyouthwork.org.