Dear Reader, XII annual Summit in Bologna with 170 participants, ALL DIGITAL Awards winners, first blended training course on designing Erasmus+ KA2 project proposals, and the newly launched Manifesto for enhancing digital skills across Europe are some of this issue's highlights. Yours, ALL DIGITAL Team In this issue: What’s...
The workshop is organised by ALL DIGITAL and European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Week 2019. Digital inclusion is nowadays key to social inclusion and active participation (in the community, in the city, in the labour market, in...
On the evening of 10 October 2019, participants of the ALL DIGITAL Summit celebrated the finalists of ALL DIGITAL Awards. The ceremony was held in in the centre of Bologna, Italy, in an ancient church dating back to 1500s, which was transformed into an event...
ALL DIGITAL and the Ikanos Project, promoted by the Basque Government, join forces to promote the adoption and support the development of DigComp, the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens. During the EU Joint Research Center / Ikanos workshop on DigComp that took place this summer...
“Training young people on IT skills for IT jobs” is the discussion group held at ALL DIGITAL Summit on October 11th, 2019 in Bologna by Filippo Mantione (Lai-momo) and Joel Ferrer and Guillem Porres Canals (Esplai Foundation). In this blogpost you can read about the discussion...
As of 1 October 2019, Renato Sabbadini takes on the role of the Chief Executive Officer of ALL DIGITAL. The new CEO was selected by the ALL DIGITAL Board among a group of strong candidates, who applied for the position following an open call. Achilles Kameas,...
Creating digital scenes, learning how to use augmented reality and planning an online course to make it all fall into place; this is what partners of the Crowddreaming Erasmus+ KA3 project did during their one-day project meeting and two days of tutors training in Rijeka,...
Dear Reader, We hope you had a nice summer and now you are energized to get back to your work and projects! Early autumn for us is always about the finalists of ALL DIGITAL Awards, results of project pilots, and of course our annual ALL...
The 2019 edition of ALL DIGITAL Awards is almost over. This year we have had as always many entries for e-facilitators and digital changemakers, more than ever entries for digital resources, but we had to cancel cooperation projects category. Applications have been checked, the Jury...
ICTSkills4All – Empowering old citizens for a digital world Project aims at fostering digital skills, self-confidence and online safety of adults aged 55 years and over who have minimal or no engagement with digital technology. In order to do so, the ICTSkills4All project wants to develop...
We are happy to launch the Codinc competition! Get to know the Codinc project! The CODINC (Coding for Inclusion) project teaches coding and STEM to young people from disadvantaged areas. It engages in a peer-to-peer learning methodology where students in high school are trained in a short...
Digital SkillShift Evaluation Specification: Training programme quality, impact and transferability CALL FOR PROPOSALS Purpose of this document This document defines the specification for an external evaluation of the “Digital SkillShift” project, as managed by ALL DIGITAL AISBL (Rue du Commerce 123, 1000 Brussels, Belgium BE0830256454), and delivered by its...
Digital SkillShift - Learning Management System specification Call for proposals The purpose of the document is to describe the requirements, functionality and purpose of a proposed Learning Management System (LMS) for the Digital SkillShift (DSS) project of ALL DIGITAL. See the Digital SkillShift Evaluation Specification in .pdf Project Overview The...
Dear Reader, What's new in our network? On 23 May ALL DIGITAL had its annual General Assembly, which approved the annual report for 2018 and elected a new Board to lead the network for the next two years. Two of our projects ran their final...
43% of European citizens lack digital skills to be able to fully participate in and benefit from the digital society. To support them and raise awareness of the importance of digital skills training, ALL DIGITAL together with its partners has been running the pan-European campaign...
The Digital Welcome project final event took place in Brussels on the 24th May 2019. 67 participants came together to discuss the role of ICT and digital skills in refugee and migrant integration, among them trainers and educators, representatives of international NGOs and public authorities, social workers...
Codinc (Coding for inclusion) Erasmus+ project partners met for the fourth time in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 28-29 May. This marked the first meeting since the piloting of the #CodincEU project took place; thus the partners had the chance to review the national pilots and compare experiences...
On 22-24 May 2019, ALL DIGITAL General Assembly took place in Brussels, Belgium, framed by two project events. The whole event had four main parts: 1) The official General Assembly and 2) the members' meeting on 23 May; 3) the final conference of the UMI-Sci-Ed project:...
The ALL DIGITAL Awards celebrate the individuals and organisations across Europe that enable citizens to transform and enrich their lives through the benefits and opportunities created by digital technologies. Thousands of individuals and hundreds of organisations around Europe work daily with communities to empower citizens through...
On May 22 and 23 the UMI-Sci-Ed project consortium hosted the UMI-Sci-Ed conference in Brussels (see agenda). UMI-Sci-Ed aims to empower young people to thi nk creatively, apply new knowledge in an effective way and become continuously competitive in our highly demanding working environment. In...
ALL DIGITAL Annual report for 2018, featuring all last year’s achievements, is published. The report was presented to members at the General Assembly on 23 May in Brussels and was approved by the membership. The report summarises activities and covers topics from strategic organisational priorities, improving...
On 23 May 2019, the ALL DIGITAL General Assembly was held in Brussels with delegates representing 64 member organisations. Among the important agenda topics there was the election of the new board and controllers for the next two years. First of all, we would like to...
The Open-AE: Promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education project (OPEN-AE) aims to train e-facilitators, animators and trainers in digital competence centres across Europe in using Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) technologies for inclusion. Partners and trainers met in Barcelona in the second week...
ALL DIGITAL, a leading pan-European association working to enhance digital skills across Europe, is hiring a CEO. 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. Twelve...
Dear Reader, The highlight of the last two months was the tenth ALL DIGITAL Week, which started in 2010 from digital inclusion and bringing people online and has grown into a major digital empowerment campaign, supported by governments, businesses, academia and civil society. We thank our...
On #DigitalDay2019 - 9 April, 23 European countries signed a declaration for the Cooperation on advancing digitisation of Cultural Heritage. It is one of the latest developments in digital cultural heritage policy. Declaration on Cooperation on advancing digitisation of cultural heritage Digital tools are increasingly being used...
The fourth Ask4JOB project meeting was held on 4-5 April 2019 in Valencia, hosted by FyG Consultores. 19 representatives from nine countries over two days discussed the findings of the workshops conducted in 8 countries with stakeholders; the development of the self-assessment tool, designing the...
As part of the CODINC project, in Belgium, Italy, Cyprus, Spain and Germany secondary schools’ students and teachers are trained on the basics of coding. After that they will conduct training with primary schools’ children. The CODINC project – Coding for Inclusion aims to promote science,...
The second project meeting and the exchange of best practices for DIGINV project took place on 21-22 March 2019, followed by the Digital Invasion through the Streets of Larnaka Cyprus. Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) hosted the meeting and organized the second project’s Digital Invasion. On the...
...of Europeans lacking digital skills On 26 March, ALL DIGITAL and the Lifelong Learning Platform gathered European stakeholders to tackle the burning issue of digital skills and media literacy. 43% of European citizens lack digital skills to be able to fully participate in and benefit from...
2019 year marks the tenth ALL DIGITAL Week, which started in 2010 from digital inclusion and bringing people online and has grown into a major digital empowerment campaign, supported by governments, businesses, academia and civil society. At large the campaign encourages Europeans to take active steps...
While social media now plays a vital role in the everyday lives of young people as citizens, education systems across the developed world have been slow to react. Extremist groups rely on false promises of status and purpose, manipulation, conspiracy and divisive rhetoric to exploit...
ICT for the Elderly project partners were welcomed in Berlin, Germany, by Nenja Wolbers and Stephan Seiffert from Stiftung Digitale Chanchen for the second face-to-face meeting. The meeting took place at the Digital Learning Center from Facebook on 19-20 March 2019. On the first day of the...
The "Promote Open Source Technologies in non-formal Adult Education" - Open-AE project website is online! From the website you will find information about project news and the curriculum. The project will promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education to support the digital upskilling of both...
The ICTSkills4All (Empowering older adult citizens for a Digital World) project meeting took place in Riga, Latvia, on 07-08 March 2019 when project partners from University of Porto (Portugual), ALL DIGITAL (Belgium), HIPOKAMP (Poland) and Cybermoor Services (UK) have been welcomed by Alliance Senior Active...
Dear Reader, New year brought many new projects, and in this issue we are happy to share with you what we have been working on. Traditionally, March is devoted to our annual ALL DIGITAL Week - this is a digital inclusion and empowerment campaign run at local...
ICT 4 the Elderly, the Erasmus+ KA2 project that was launched in November 2018, aims to facilitate a pathway for up-skilling the digital competences of individuals between the age of 55 and 75 years and to make them aware of some of the many opportunities...
The purpose of the BRIGHTS “Boosting Global Citizenship Education using digital storytelling” project is to promote Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in formal and non-formal Education with the help of digital storytelling (DS) techniques, leading to more socially inclusive Education and training policies and practices in...
The consortium of the Open AE: Promote open source technologies in non-formal adult education project is now working on preparing the first output of the project, which is the OPEN-AE curriculum. This curriculum is being designed for e-facilitators working with unemployed adults needing upskilling or...
The Coding for Inclusion project is a KA3 project where students aged 15-18 from disadvantaged areas are trained to become e-facilitators for their younger peers, 10-12 year-olds, using a curriculum focused on teaching STEAM and coding in a fun and playful way. The project piloting is...
First Learning, Teaching, Training Activities (LTTA) for DIGINV project (2018-1-IT02-KA204-048171) was held i in Bevagna, Italy, on the 14-18th January 2019. The programme of the LTTA 1 was offered for cultural operators from Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Malta and Italy in order to prepare them on...
The ICTSkills4All’s project website is online and it is now available in English. Soon it will be made available in Portuguese, Latvian, Polish and French. ICTSkills4All is 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 project that aims to foster digital skills in older adults aged 55 years and over who...
On 11-12 February 2019, representatives of 13 organisations from five countries came to Athens for the kick-off meeting of a new project "DevOps for Smart Cities". This is a three-year Erasmus+ KA2, Sector Skills Alliances project, and one of the biggest project consortia that we...
Monuments have a purpose; they relate to our culture and our cultural heritage. Even today a physical monument can be a point of cultural debate, the discussion around it serving as a cultural practice, in which the public discourse can demonstrate as a measure of...