The digital transformation and topic of digital skills has never been more visible in EU policy and actions, including the EU’s Digital Strategy, the 2030 Digital Compass, and Digital Education Action Plan. The new ALL DIGITAL Manifesto sets out key principles and recommendations on how...
Dear Reader, Our newsletter is getting longer and longer with so many activities and events within the ALL DIGITAL network, our communities of practice, policy work (check the 'Policy' section!), launch of the new MyDigiSkills tool, ALL DIGITAL Awards, and our numerous projects. And we have...
The DigComp community of practice (CoP) was established in October 2019 on the ALL DIGITAL Basecamp platform to facilitate the exchange of information and good practices among stakeholders and to promote the adoption and support the development of DigComp, the European Digital Competence Framework for...
The new ALL DIGITAL Community of Practice (Cop) on Digital Competence Certification is into full swing and is set to become a key forum for exchanging views and knowledge on digital skills certification and linked topics. During March, ALL DIGITAL ran a consultation through the CoP...
[caption id="attachment_20768" align="aligncenter" width="754"] Social Hackademy launch in Italy[/caption] In January 2021, Social Hackademy (HackAD) project entered the second year of implementation, which will be considerably different from the first one. That one was all about preparing training outlines, adapting Social Hackademy methodology, developing a HackAD...
Being online is a way of living for young Europeans. In 2019, 94 % of young people in the EU made daily use of the internet, compared with 77 % for the whole population (Eurostat, Being young in Europe today - digital world, 2020). However, young...
On 25 March CDDC project partners organized Crowddreaming: Youth Co-Create Digital Culture (CDDC) final project conference. More than 170 participants attended the online event that marks the completion of the CDDC project. The event offered inspiring keynotes, discussion with representatives of European institutions and civil society...
ALL DIGITAL is a partner in the 3D-PRINT Erasmus+ project aiming at developing an educational Toolkit for both adult learners and trainers to equipping the future workforce to participate in the 3D printing evolution. The consortium developed the first informative output Introduction to 3D Printing explaining...
The Digital Education Among Roma Minorities in Schools (DREAMS) project finished in March 2021. The project aimed at fostering the social, civic and intercultural competences of Roma parents through digital education in order to promote their social inclusion and tackle discrimination in schools, segregation, racism,...
On 15-16 March 2021, sixteen partners from seven countries started a new challenging endeavour – a policy experimentation on the validation of transversal skills, acquired through non-formal and informal learning across Europe. This is the TRANSVAL-EU project. The need for this project comes from the following...
ALL DIGITAL participated in the Media Literacy Expert Group meeting organised by the European Commission’s DG Connect on 26 March 2021. The group gathers various stakeholders working in media literacy – from representatives of the governments of the EU member states, TV and radio broadcasters...
MyDigiSkills is a new tool to help users understand their digital competences. It is based on the work done in the DigCompSAT project, as delivered by ALL DIGITAL for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2020. The tool was launched on 23 March with...
On Monday 22 March 2021, ALL DIGITAL launched its annual All Digital Week campaign with a high-level online stakeholder event titled "Digital Skills for a Stronger Europe" highlighting and discussing a range of topics relating to the importance digital skills in a post-pandemic Europe. The Covid-19...
ALL DIGITAL welcomes the opportunity to input on the Roadmap to develop a European approach to micro-credentials for lifelong learning and employability. ALL DIGITAL is a pan-European membership organisation that represents 25,000 digital competence centres that work together to deliver digital skills training to help...
ALL DIGITAL welcomes the comprehensive, ambitious plan, announced by the EU Commission on 9 March 2021, to set a vision, targets, and avenues for a successful digital transformation of Europe by 2030. ALL DIGITAL is encouraged to see that the digital transformation, and the role of...
ALL DIGITAL and six partners started 2021 with a new challenge targeting the Generation Z. The Creative Audiovisual Lab for the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy – CrAL – is an exciting project co-funded under Erasmus+ KA3 Social inclusion which will run over...
All Digital Week strives to give people tools and approaches to develop and enhance their digital skills. It is organised by European association ALL DIGITAL, in collaboration with various partners at local, national, and European level. Since 2010, the campaign has involved over 1 300 000...
Dear Reader, Spring is around the corner! Let it be filled with new growth - of new partnerships, new useful tools, informative events, and innovative projects supporting digital skills for all. ALL DIGITAL and our members are involved in many of those, and we are happy...
The Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) published on 30 September 2020, proposed to “Develop a European Digital Skills Certificate (EDSC) that may be recognised and accepted by governments, employers and other stakeholders across Europe. This would allow Europeans to indicate their level of digital competences,...
Following the successful implementation of the DevOps Competences for Smart Cities MOOC in January, Smart DevOps project partners propelled towards the next big task, conducting specialisation courses for three Smart Cities job profiles: Smart City Planner, Cmart City IT Manager, Smart City IT Officer. The profiles have been...
The Digital Skillshift project is coming to a close, and of course it has been significantly affected by the different waves of the Covid-19 pandemic across Europe. Despite the pandemic, there have been 16 editions of the Digital Skillshift course in the three pilot countries...
ICTskills4All is an Erasmus+ project coordinated by the University of Porto involving five partners from five countries (Portugal, Poland, Latvia, UK and Belgium). The aim of the project is to develop and pilot an intergenerational and peer-to-peer ICT Learning Programme to improve confidence, digital skills...
In 2020, four workshops on transferable skills were held by DocEnhance partners for external stakeholders from various European countries. Horizon2020 DocEnhance project, of which ALL DIGITAl is a partner, aims to enhance transferable skills intelligence and integration into existing PhD programmes. Each workshop, organised over September-December...
Are you working or would like to work in the smart city sector? Are you working in the municipality that is planning to adopt smart city solutions? Are you a university student interested in smart cities? Then Smart-DevOps Specialisation Courses might be for you! Smart-DevOps...
DocEnhance project aims to enhance transferable skills intelligence and integration into existing PhD programmes by developing an employment and innovation-oriented curriculum for PhD programmes, facilitating business-education partnerships tracking PhD graduate career paths. The major outputs of the project are a recommended transferable skills curriculum for PhD...
The first event of 2021 for ALL DIGITAL and a few of our members was the (online) kick-off meeting of the new AMeLiE project on 13-14 January. AMeLiE – Advanced Media Literacy to Counter Online Hate Speech is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 Project. It aims...
ALL DIGITAL, a leading European association working to enhance digital skills across Europe, is hiring a Programme Officer. We were established in 2007 on the initiative of digital inclusion leaders first as an informal thematic network, and in 2010 – as a formal international non-profit association....
Hackad - Social Hackademy project is celebrating its 1st anniversary. It’s been a busy year, and we are proud to report that despite the challenging circumstances we achieved planned results and milestones: Upscaled Social Hackathon Umbria methodology to enable its transfer and usability across Europe....
ALL DIGITAL is a partner in the RAYUELA Horizon2020 project that aims to better understand the drivers and human factors affecting cyber-criminality, thus empowering and educating young people to a more conscious and aware use of the Internet through gaming, in a preventive and mitigating...
European Commission's Joint Research Centre in collaboration with ALL DIGITAL's experts published a report on DigComp Self-Assessment Tool (DigCompSAT). The tool is designed with a methodological perspective that allows measuring of digital competence by the three elements - knowledge, skills and attitude – for each...
Have you done a STE(A)M educational activity in your classroom, and do you have some pictures that show how interesting and exciting it was? Participate in the STEAMonEdu photo contest! A picture is worth a thousand words. Help us to inspire other STE(A)M educators! Contest rules and...
The Biblio Consortium is proud to present the report "Librarianship in Europe - Mapping Professional Needs". The report aims to identify the skills gap in the Belgian, Bulgarian, Greek, Italian, and Latvian library sector resulting from the digital transformation. The consortium mainly focused on public libraries...
Our project STEAMonEdu – “Competence development of STE(A)M educators through online tools and communities” aims to increase the adoption and impact of STE(A)M education by investing in the professional development of educators and in establishing a community of stakeholders. To this end, the project drafted a Competence...
On 11 November 2020, ALL DIGITAL and European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training – EVBB organized “Designing and delivering VET curricula in the digital age” online event. The event was part of the European Vocational Skills Week 2020 and addressed the challenges posed to...
17 November, 2020 Dear Reader, Autumn is harvest time, and in our area as well - with so many activities, reports, new projects, events is hard to keep up! Our main highlights are the results of ALL DIGITAL Awards and annual ALL DIGITAL Summit organised in October...
Erasmus+ Biblio project, which is being implemented by 10 partners during 2019-2022 and where ALL DIGITAL is a partner, aims to boost digital skills and competences of librarians in Europe. The project consortium is proud to announce that the research phase of the Biblio project...
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is hosted online during 9-17 November, by the United Nations under the overarching theme Internet for human resilience and solidarity. The programme develops around the four main thematic tracks: Data; Environment; Inclusion; Trust. The Internet Governance Forum...
04 November 2020 ALL DIGITAL, a leading European association working to enhance digital skills across Europe, is hiring a Programme Officer. We were established in 2007 on the initiative of digital inclusion leaders first as an informal thematic network, and in 2010 – as a formal international...
Our DocEnhance project aims to enhance transferable skills intelligence and integration into existing PhD programmes by developing an employment and innovation-oriented curriculum for PhD programmes, facilitating business-education partnerships tracking PhD graduate career paths. The major outputs of the project are a recommended transferable skills curriculum for...
The 18th edition of the annual European Week of Regions and Cities took place online over the three weeks in October, with 70 unique online workshops exploring different aspects of empowering citizens. This theme marked the start of the three-week event, during which EU decision-makers,...