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...
Dear Reader, In this issue, we are pleased to share with you the results and materials of our 10th annual event - ALL DIGITAL Summit, to introduce our Awards winners and new members, and to tell you about our 10 years celebration. As always, you will...
HURISTO: a new project with the main aim to deliver a methodology concerning European human rights charter and educational skill improvement for the less educated got launched on 18 October in Brussels. Maks vzw (Belgium) cooperates with Terremondo cooperativa sociale (Italy), Cepa Montes Norte (Spain)...
#pathways4employ partners met in Dublin on 18-19 October for the 3rd transnational meeting of the project at the premises of our Irish partner FIT ltd. FIT helps long-term unemployed people throughout Ireland to land on a career in the ICT field by providing fast track courses...
A comprehensive Informative Kit on Global Citizenship Education has been published by ALL DIGITAL in the framework of the BRIGHTS “Boosting Global Citizenship Education using digital storytelling” project. The current global scenario, marked by social, political, environmental and financial crises, requires Education and training policy makers...
10 years, 10 summits, 8 Get Online Weeks, quite a few projects, 80+ members altogether...
On 4-5 October, over 150 participants representing 92 organisations from 26 countries gathered in the beautiful CaixaForum in Barcelona for the ALL DIGITAL Summit 2017. The event under the title ‘Digital Skills for Social Innovation’ was hosted by El Teb, in collaboration with Generalitat...
Commission announces pilot project to boost digital skills through internships. The #DigitalOpportuity #traineeships scheme, which will start next year will involve 6000 students in Europe and be a unique opportunity to boost their #DigitalSkills via traineeships. Some facts: the scheme use rules of Erasmus programme open for students and recent...
Activities from national coalitions are moving forward, and the Secretariat of the digital skills and jobs coalition was fortunate enough to meet and collaborate with national coalitions in reviewing key actions of the past year and plan for a better digital future together. If you want...
The Smart women project focuses on women entrepreneurship, and getting entrepreneurial women the skills they need to take their business online to allow it to reach more customers and grow. A FEM committee meeting at the European Parliament discussed addressing the Gender employment gap with...
If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine how powerful the use of videos in today’s society is! If this video tells a good story and it does it in an emotional and engaging way, then the probability to impact...