Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe (DARE) is an independent network of providers of citizenship education and human rights education devoted to raise the profile of Education for Demcratic Citizenship (EDC) and Human Rights Education (HRE), promote transcultural and transnational cooperation, and enhance the quality of education within these fields. Following closely policies and challenges DARE supports the efforts that the European Union takes towards strengthening civic values and tackling discrimination for more inclusive societies. Following from that a position on the follow-up of the Paris Declaration and a Joint Report on the ET 2020 Strategy have been released. Therefore, DARE endeavors competence based approaches of civic skills and competences learning that includes non-formal and formal learning occasions.