• Understanding governmental structures and legal arrangements of various political systems
• Knowing relevant community stakeholders
• Knowing about global interdependencies

• Ability to participate actively in policy-making
• Ability to manage conflicts
• Team working skills
• Social communication skills
• Critical thinking

• Showing a participatory attitude
• Respecting  and advocating human rights and democratic principles
• Showing civic courage to stand up for democratic values

Participants have to successfully accomplish the following tasks before the BADU Open Badge will be issued.

Minimum standards:

• Having successfully completed an entire learning activity (training course, seminar, online course, workshop etc.), a voluntary programme/internship
• Self-evaluation
• Assessment session with the trainer/mentor

• Case Study
• Conducted one workshop on the topic of the activity with youth within 2 months after the activity
• Conducted critical incident analysis
• Problem Solving and simulation games on the specific topic of the activity
• Reflection exercises
• Scored at least 80% on the final test