The past month saw two new coalitions for digital skills and jobs jobs launched in Sweden and in Greece. On 3 May 2018 the Swedish National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition was launched at the IT and Telecom Industries office in Stockholm. The Coalition will work...
The European Youth Event is organised every second year in Strasbourg by the European Parliament to engage young people in the processes of the European Union. This year, ALL DIGITAL's Board member Nenja Wolbers was invited to be an idea giver in the session “Forever...
The Smart Women project aims to train female current or aspiring entrepreneurs in e-commerce; in other words, to give entrepreneurial women the skills and tools they need to bring their business online. As piloting starts in six European countries, we will learn more about the...
ALL DIGITAL has established the ALL DIGITAL Awards to recognise the achievements of individuals and organisations across Europe that enable people to exploit the benefits and opportunities created by digital transformation. Thousands of individuals and hundreds of organisations around Europe work daily with communities to empower...
ALL DIGITAL Annual report for 2017, featuring all last year’s achievements, is published. The report was presented to members at the General Assembly on 8 May in Brussels and was approved together with financial documents. The report summarises 2017 in numbers and covers topics from strategic...
On 8-9 May 2018, representatives of 28 member organisations gathered in Brussels for the General Assembly to assess and approve of the main organisational documents, elect new Board members, as well as discuss the members’ services, opportunities and major events. Chair of the Board Mara Jakobsone...
The new strategic plan was presented, debated and approved by ALL DIGITAL General Assembly on 8 May in Brussels. The ALL DIGITAL 2018-2020 Strategic plan has been developed against the backdrop of a society where digital literacy is recognized as a key life competence, as essential,...
The ALL DIGITAL's 8th General Assembly will be held on 8 May, followed by a membership meeting on 9 May. General Assembly consists of representatives of ALL DIGITAL member organisations (one representative per organisation) and is held once a year. At the upcoming Assembly, the network...
Dear Reader, This spring has been rich in events - from project meetings and training to conferences and campaigns. We are proud to say that our annual digital empowerment campaign ALL DIGITAL Week in 2018 united over 1,200 partners to engage more than 100,000 people in...
We invite you to the PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOY final conference on 9 May 2018 in Brussels. In this event we will look at the digital skills needed in two interesting profiles for employment offering opportunities in the coming years: entrepreneur and ‘virtual worker’. By virtual worker...
The future of business lies in e-commerce. E-commerce allows business to reach more customers around the world, at more hours and in more capacities. The clear majority of customers these days will search the web before making a purchase, the internet is the new yellow...
Educate to create is the flagship conference of the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU in education and digital skills. It took place in Sofia on 19-20th April and gathered 200+ teachers, trainers, advocates, policy-makers, students, companies and consultants from Bulgaria and the EU. Speakers and participants...
In a little over a year the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition has its 100th pledge. Collectively pledges represented since the launch in December 2016 more than 3.7 million online or face-to-face trainings. There have been over one million certificates issued and 9,000 job placements...
On 5 April, Gabriela Ruseva, ALL DIGITAL Policy Officer, delivered a presentation at the international symposium on “Digital Skills for Everyone: Accelerating Europe’s Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth”, explaining the role of the non-formal training sector and giving some successful examples from our network. The symposium was...
The purpose of the BRIGHTS project is to promote Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in formal and non-formal Educational contexts in Europe, with the help of digital storytelling (DS) techniques. GCE employs concepts, methodologies and theories already implemented in different fields and subjects, including human rights education,...
As a part of the ALL DIGITAL Week and in preparation for the STEM Discovery Week 2018, - the UMI-Sci-Ed project organized a webinar titled: Using UMI (Ubiquitous, Mobile, IoT) technologies to support STEM education. The webinar took place on March 21, and we had over...
The first 2 days of pan-European Week brought Europeans on exciting digital journeys and let us learn not only digital skills but also geography while looking at 650 + events on the campaign map and getting photos and videos on social media. From flowery Madeira in...
ALL DIGITAL Week 2018 has started, and our partners are taking digital to the next level in their countries. More than 1,245 partners in 25 European countries will bring training, seminars, workshops, talks and other initiatives to an estimated 80,000 participants, throughout at least 2,000 events. Over...
On 5-9 March IASIS NGO welcomed the Digital Welcome project’s Training for Trainers in Athens. Thirteen trainers from all the partner organizations from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany and Greece joined the Training for Trainers (TfT) week. The aim of this TfT was to train each other...
On 12-18 March 2018, the 4th European Money Week is organised by national banking associations across Europe, under coordination of the European Banking Federation, to highlight financial education. All the events during the Week are seeking to improve financial literacy through better financial education. One of...
On 12 March 2018, the High Level Expert Group on Fake News (HLEG), set up by the European Commission in January 2018 to advise on policy initiatives to counter fake news and disinformation spread online, published its final report on Fake News and Online Disinformation....
... or What happened at the 4th partners’ meeting in Riga On 14-15 February pathways4employ partners met in Riga at Microsoft Latvia. The meeting was hosted by Mara Jakobsone on behalf of our Latvian partner DMG. The highlight of the meeting was the testing of the brand-new...
Dear Reader, We hope you have had a nice start of the year. It has definitely been good for us - new projects have been kicked off, and we are getting ready for our flagship digital empowerment campaign ALL DIGITAL Week 2018. This year ANYBODY can...
Remember those days when people used to say that technologies were the future? Well, the future is now. We live in a time when machines are getting smarter, computers are getting better and robots can maintain a whole conversation or even receive the citizenship or...
As you may know, ALL DIGITAL works closely with many National Coalitions that work in the context of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. National coalitions bring together stakeholders in digital skills and jobs, and these include civil society actors, employment services, government ministries and...
In an increasingly digital world, when employers look at the CV of a potential employee, they look at the computer skills section. In Europe today, millions of people still lack basic digital skills, which makes it very difficult for them to find a job, thus...
March will bring the fourth meeting of the Smart Women project. It will take place in Timisoara, Romania on 6-7 March, and after that the training programme will be ready to start. Stay tuned for calls for participants in the training course! Smart Women is an...
Only two weeks now before the BRIGHTS MOOC starts! Following the intensive work related to the production of the contents, BRIGHTS project partners are ready to deliver the online course on 5 March 2018. The BRIGHTS MOOC will be delivered in Italy, Belgium, Croatia and Greece over...
Let me tell you a story… Digital Storytelling is not just a methodology. Digital Storytelling is also a way of sharing experience, of building links with people and getting to know each other. Everyone has a story to tell, and this is the idea behind the HURISTO...
Codinc – Coding for Inclusion is the name of the latest two-year project led by ALL DIGITAL. On 8-9 February 2018, partners from Belgium, Spain, Cyprus, Germany and Italy arrived in Brussels to discuss the details of the project. Purpose of the project The project aims at fostering STEM...
On 25 January 2018, partners from eight organisations gathered in Brussels to kick-off the new 2-year project funded by Erasmus+ KA3 - Digital Competences Development System (DCDS). What is the purpose of the project? Around a quarter of the European adult population struggles with reading and writing...
On 17 January 2018, in a press conference Commissioner Navracsics announced a package of new policy initiatives, with a focus on enhancing digital skills and key competences. The package includes: An updated recommendation on key competences A Digital Education Action Plan A Council Recommendation on Common...
Dear Reader, 2017 was the year of renewal for us. In our 10th year, we have become ALL DIGITAL with the launch of the new identity and vision at the General Assembly in Malta. The Get Online Week again was a success engaging 100,000 Europeans, and...
On 14-15 December the extended ALL DIGITAL Board meeting and Advisory Board meeting took place in Brussels. The main topics for the discussions were: Review of the 2018-2020 strategy (The Strategy will be available for all the members when it is finalized by the Board), Strategic...
On 5-7 December 2017, Centre of Technical Culture Rijeka (CTC Rijeka) hosted in Rijeka, Croatia, the third BRIGHTS project meeting and the training of the BRIGHTS national tutors. The one-day project meeting involved ALL DIGITAL and all the other BRIGHTS partners: Maks vzw, Association Study Center...
Our member Digitaal.Talent@Gent is the winner of the European Digital Skills Award in the category 'Digital skills for all'. Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, presented the award on the 7th of December at the second Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference in...
ALL DIGITAL Week is following in the footsteps of the European Get Online Week as one of the major pan-European awareness raising campaigns on digital skills for inclusion and employment. It is run at digital competence centres, libraries, schools, community centres and non-for-profits across Europe,...
The I-LINC final conference, titled ‘Educating for the 21 century: boosting digital skills and entrepreneurial thinking', was organised on 23 November 2017 within the Lifelong Learning Week. The main aim of the conference was to share ideas and recent developments in the area of digital...
On 21 November 2017, the Lifelong Learning Awards (LLLAwards) were given to the most outstanding educational practices under the theme of "Education in the Digital World". The prize in the Education and Democracy Category was awarded to the Youth e-Perspectives on...
The third Smart Women project meeting took place in Tudela, Spain in November 2017. Project partners were hosted by their Spanish partner, Fundacion Dedalo. Prior to the meeting, project partners were invited to the city hall of Tudela where they had a meeting with the mayor...
We are pleased to present a final Toolkit of the CodeMob project, which is aimed at teaching coding and the effective use of mobile devices in telecentres. This Toolkit presents the two training curricula, introduces the online learning platform, and also gives practical tips on...
The ASK4JOB Project has just been launched in Rome where the kick-off meeting took place on 6-7 November 2017. It is an ambitious project, which involves 11 partners coming from all around Europe. Its aim is to tackle the lack of digital skills in long-term...
While we live in an increasingly digital society, a significant number of European citizens continue to lack basic digital skills. Media practices have changed, and now we are not only receiving information passively. Anyone can be active in content creation and (re-)produce (dis)information. For example,...
This October ALL DIGITAL started a new exciting project called “The WELCOME Programme”. As the title hints, we will be working with newcomers – asylum seekers and refugees. How? Through creative IT workshops, which will unlock their potential and foster their inclusion in our countries. The...