Europe’s “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future” strategy acknowledges that while digital technologies profoundly impact our daily lives, they also pose significant risks, including data privacy violations, information overload, and cyber threats. The rise of AI intensifies these risks, with concerns surrounding the spread of misinformation through biased algorithms and AI hallucinations. The lack of widespread digital literacy among citizens further increases these challenges, holding up the effective use of digital tools. As Digital Citizenship (DC) falls under the broader umbrella of digital literacy, to effectively implement it, students require a framework to conceptualize and map digital literacy elements into simpler components, enabling them to monitor and reflect on their own digital literacy development. Aligned with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, there is a critical need for a sustainable learning tool that fosters digital literacy. To cultivate a truly literary digital society while upholding ethical and environmental standards, HE communities, as future workforces, must become proficient in DC. By successfully upskilling the future generation of the learning community in this area, Europe can benefit from digital technologies, particularly AI-driven digitalization and automation. This project will prioritize the following concepts:  Legal Literacy: The EU has implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to protect data and privacy within the EU and the EEA. These laws are complex and ever-changing, making it challenging for people to understand and assert their and others’ rights. Citizens must know these regulations to comply with new rules and participate in the regulation process, as they significantly impact their personal and social lives. Data Literacy: Accessing, interpreting, and transforming data into actionable knowledge requires data literacy. User-friendly tools based on End-User Development (EUD) principles enable individuals to gain control over their data and make informed decisions. This is particularly important for exploiting the full potential of regulations like the GDPR and AI Act. Protection Literacy: The internet poses several dangers, such as misinformation, disinformation, fraud, identity theft, and hate speech. Criminals use the anonymity of the internet to exploit digital citizens. With the growing importance of the internet, citizens are more likely to encounter negative experiences. By focusing on knowledge-based skills relevant to demographics, culture, and the future needs of the European Commission, DigitalCitizen empowers individuals for long-term success. Objectives:  DigitalCitizen empowers 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. Implementation:  a) Upskilling the HE community on the three pillars of digital citizenship (digital, legal, and protection literacy) with learning material, an innovative learning framework that incorporates micro-learning components, and interactive mini-games. b) Organize public events, hackathons, and online training sessions on various industry-related digital citizen skills. c) Establish online communities to promote the importance of digital citizenship, advocacy, and engagement in policy-making Results:  – The HE community will be a digitally literate, resilient, and empowered citizenry capable of navigating the complexities of the digital world with confidence and competence. – An innovative learning framework that can be fully integrated into the higher education system to make learning more engaging. – Support educators and students with specialized training to develop critical thinking alongside complex problem-solving and digital competencies and increase and sustain their employability. Duration: 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2028 (36 months)