17 Oct Highlights from the ALL DIGITAL Awards ceremony and day 3 of the Summit of Engaged Digital Citizenship in Madrid!
17 Oct, 2024
Madrid, Wednesday, 17 October 2024
Yesterday, the second day of the Summit of Engaged Digital Citizenship ‘Connecting for an Informed and Conscious Society’, attended by over 400 participants, culminated in the much-anticipated ALL DIGITAL Awards ceremony, celebrating the achievements of organizations and individuals who are driving digital inclusion and skill development across Europe.
To honor their innovation, dedication, and the profound impact they have on countless individuals, ALL DIGITAL established the ALL DIGITAL Awards. This year’s ceremony, held in the auditorium of La Nave, brought together over 100 participants from our network, who enthusiastically applauded the remarkable achievements, hard work and passion of both the nominees and winners.
The six awards were presented by members of the ALL DIGITAL Board and Advisory Board, recognising the vital contributions of trainers, educators, and digital resource developers in advancing digital inclusion across Europe. Check the categories and the winners here below.
ALL DIGITAL Awards
ALL DIGITAL Weeks Awards
New award from the GenAI project
This morning, we had the honor of hosting representatives from two major institutions: the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Commission. Ahmet Murat KILIÇ, Head of the Digital Transformation Unit in the Education Department of the Directorate of Democracy at the Council of Europe, and Thibaut Kleiner, Director for Policy, Strategy, and Outreach, at DG Connect, European Commission, each delivered keynote speeches to our audience. Their addresses focused on key themes of digital citizenship and digital transformation.
Ahmet Murat KILIÇ highlighted the Council of Europe’s role in promoting digital citizenship education to address the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
Soon after, Thibaut Kleiner joined us online from Brussels to address his speech to the audience. Mr. Kleiner emphasized that EU citizens want a human-centered digital transformation that ensures no one is left behind, especially marginalized communities.
Then Angeliki Giannakopoulou, project coordinator at the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA), representative of the civil society, underscored the role of adult educators, providers and learners to demystify AI and cooperate to create decentralised AI systems. These are essential steps for reclaiming our power and engaging as informed citizens”.
During the day experts from across Europe and Latin America engaged in insightful panel discussions, hands-on workshops, maker-space demo experiences, and lightning talks. In particular, ALL DIGITAL presented two projects where its contribution to is crucial: the ”ALL DIGITAL Academy panel: Integrating emerging technologies in education” and the Artificial Intelligence for Adult Learning (AI4AL) workshops, dedicated to trainers focusing on how to adopt AI tools in their courses.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY
About the organizers
ALL DIGITAL
ALL DIGITAL is a leading pan-European association based in Brussels, representing more than 100 member organisations across Europe that work to enhance digital skills and competences of all people, making them aware and capable to exploit the opportunities of digital transformation.
ALL DIGITAL represents digital education stakeholders, such as digital competence centres, adult education centres, community centres, schools, libraries and their networks across Europe where young people and adults can access training and support to improve their digital skills and keep up to date with the latest technology developments.
ALL DIGITAL focuses on supporting all Europeans to enhance their digital skills and employability, to use online services and to be included in today’s society, with the ultimate goal of improving their quality of life.
Fundación Esplai
Fundación Esplai, Committed Citizenship is a state-level organization created in 1999 that shares a project with Fundesplai (Fundació Catalana de l ‘Esplai).
The mission is to promote citizenship committed to social inclusion, socio-educational action and the responsible use of information and communication technologies, with a special dedication to children and youth, and betting on the promotion of the Third Sector.
Currently, the organisation has three main fields of work, Social and educational and e-inclusion (main target group: youth and low skilled citizens); training and employment (unemployed youth and ICT/Social professional); Participation and Third Sector (main target group: NGO’s, municipalities, experts, Third Sector Stakeholders).
Fundacion Esplai vision is to be a recognized and sustainable organization, which combines the local and global logic of its performance and territorial presence, characterized by quality and innovation and by establishing strategic alliances, especially with city councils and the general local world.
For more information, please contact:
ALL DIGITAL
Andrea Bedorin,
Communications Manager
andrea.bedorin@all-digital.org
