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...
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the ALL DIGITAL Awards 2017 in 4 categories: BEST E-FACILITATOR Katja Plesko - Programme Manager at Simbioza Genesis, Ljubljana, Slovenia Tom Van Hoey - Trainer at Konekt, Ghent, Belgium Dolores Carmona - Facilitator at Digital Literacy Programme...
This issue is mostly devoted to the upcoming ALL DIGITAL Summit on 4-5 October in Barcelona under the theme of Digital Skills for Social Innovation. Check the programme, meet our speakers, get the previews of the sessions, and learn about our host organisations. We are excited...
This year the ALL DIGITAL Summit in Barcelona will serve as the final event of the CodeMob project. We are going to present the project results in four ways: The CodeMob project will be presented at the Project Lightning Talks A short film summarizing the...
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition is expecting a busy schedule in the upcoming months. This schedule will offer plenty of chances for the general public to get in contact with coalition stakeholders and coordinators and take part in activities to get new skills or...
The Smart Women project is off to a great start. The summer saw many partners busy working to finish the curriculum for the modules. This gives potentials users an idea of the structure of the training course. The project will start to be piloted in...
The ALL DIGITAL Awards 2017 recognise individuals and organisations in four categories: Best e-facilitator Best digital changemaker Best cooperation project Best digital resource The finalists and winners in the three categories will be announced at the beginning of September. However, the three best e-facilitators, selected...
By Pedro Aguilera 10 years ago a group of telecentres networks managers met at Fundación Esplai headquarters in Prat de Llobregat to discuss about the role of telecentres to improve e-skills of European citizens. At that time, nobody doubted the power of telecentres at the local,...
The BRIGHTS team had its second project meeting on 3-4 July 2017 in Rome, Italy, hosted by the project partner Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi (USGM). The meeting involved ALL DIGITAL and five of its members: Maks vzw, Association Study Center City of Foligno (CSF),...
The X annual event of ALL DIGITAL will take place in Barcelona on 4-5 October. It is hosted by the ALL DIGITAL Spanish member El Teb Association in collaboration with Fundación Esplai and Government of Catalonia. Why is Barcelona the perfect place to host the...
Our first ALL DIGITAL newsletter! Our organisation is celebrating ten years of partnerships, campaigns and development in 2017. We became ALL DIGITAL on 22 May and launched our new branding and vision at the Digital Assembly in Malta on 16 June. We would like to invite you...
In its tenth year, ALL DIGITAL (formerly Telecentre Europe) will return to its birthplace, Barcelona, to organise the 10th annual summit under the theme of Digital Skills for Social Innovation on 4-5 October 2017. The event will be held at the CaixaForum in Barcelona and...
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...
By Esther Subias, El Teb Born on the initiative of educators and teachers of a district of Barcelona, the Raval, to attend the needs of young people, El Teb is about to celebrate its 25 years of existence. It is a pleasure for us to be the...
ALL DIGITAL promoted its new branding and vision at the Digital Assembly, organized by the European Commission in Malta, on 16th of June. Our organisation is celebrating ten years of partnerships, campaigns and development in 2017, and became ALL DIGITAL on 22 May. All staff and...
The Digitals Skills and Jobs Coalition have been moving forward. At the moment there are 17 coalitions and up to four more forming expected to be launched in autumn. The number of pledges is growing and there is a now a thematic call for pledges on...
Telecentre Europe, a leading European community in the field of digital skills, celebrates ten years of partnership, motivation, dedication and development, and becomes ALL DIGITAL. Our organization has come a long way, 2017 being the tenth year since the start of an amazing journey of a...
The Smart women team had their second project meeting on 10-11 May in Larnaca, Cyprus, hosted by project partner Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) . The meeting involved ALL DIGITAL and six of its members: Langas į ateitį from Lithuania, LIKTA from Latvia, EOS from Romania, Dedalo Foundation...
The aim of the DigComp and EntreComp stakeholder event, which took place on 12 May in Brussels, was to inspire organisations to use DigComp, the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, and EntreComp, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework, and to build a community around the...
2 June, 14.00-15.00 CET, online webex meeting The webinar will offer a thematic introduction by two distinguished speakers and will offer 15 minutes of discussion, questions & answers. Speakers: Dana T. Redford, PhD, Founder & President, Policy Experimentation & Evaluation Platform (PEEP) Prof. Redford is an internationally recognized...
Spring has been super busy for Telecentre Europe and our partners: European Get Online Week, our 7th General Assembly, new national coalitions and an array of other projects and events. Click on the preview to see the full newsletter In this issue: TE news: 90,000 people at 3,500...
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition is growing, and these developments should be positive for all stakeholders in the digital skills community. In March, during Get Online Week, there were successful launches by the Latvian Coalition E-prasmju partrnerība (E-skills partnership) in Riga and the Lithuanian National...
Join our free webinar on 27th April at 14.00 CET Get to know an 11-module vocational training curriculum for e-facilitators and its newly developed additional modules on Coding and the Effective use of mobile devices. Discuss the two new modules with project managers of both the...
Telecentre Europe Annual report for 2016, featuring all last year’s achievements, is published. The report was presented to members at TE General Assembly on 9 March in Brussels and was approved together with financial documents. The report summarises 2016 in numbers and covers topics from...
On 27 March – 2 April, 2017, 27 national organisations with their 5,000 partners ran thousands of events and activities to bring Europeans online and to enhance their digital skills during the eighth Get Online Week (#GOW17). Since its first edition in 2010, GOW has always...
Are you interested in Global Citizenship Education? Doesn’t matter, if you are a primary school teacher or an expert on gender equality, if you volunteer as a youth worker or you operate in the field of social inclusion and cultural diversity - we want to...
On 9-10 March, 2017, 58 participants gathered in Brussels for the Telecentre Europe’s seventh General Assembly, followed by a more informal membership meeting. During the formal part, the representatives of 35 member organizations voted on approval of the 2016 Report and budget, as well as the...
On March 9, 2017, the Telecentre Europe General Assembly (TEGA) was held in Brussels. 35 Telecentre Europe member organisations were represented to review, discuss and vote on the approval of the last year’s activity report and accounts as well as the workplan and budget for...
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition was launched on December 1st, and Telecentre Europe, part of the Secretariat running the coalition, is focused on supporting and forming National Coalitions. There are many ongoing developments, so how can you follow them? Follow the Digital Skills and Jobs...
A new Erasmus+ KA2 project, called “Smart Women” kicked off in Malta at the offices of the Maltese Communications Authority. The project involves Telecentre Europe and six of its members: ‘Langas I Ateiti’ from Lithuania, LIKTA from Latvia, EOS from Romania, Dedalo Foundation for the Development...
After the DigComp workshop, we promised to publish a position paper on our vision about the future of the European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp). So, here it comes at a time when the European Commission is developing an Action Plan for the implementation of DigComp 2.0. We know what such...
Telecentre Europe and Open Evidence, are conducting the Study on the Impact of the Internet and Social Media on Youth Participation and Youth Work assigned by the European Commission Education. We want to examine how Internet and social media influence young people’s political participation and active citizenship, as well...
We cordially invite you to our international validation workshop on 10th March 2017 from 09:30-14:00h, at De Markten, Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains 5 / Oude Graanmarkt 5 Brussels, Belgium. Organised by the CODEMOB project, the event will start with a presentation of a training curriculum on...
On 6th February 2017, Rodrigo Ballester, member of the Cabinet of Commissioner for Education & Culture Tibor Navracsics, visited Interface3 and MAKS vzw – two Telecentre Europe member organisations in Brussels. The purpose of the visit was to experience first-hand what telecentres do, what kind of...
Our project Youth e-Pespectives on Migration is soon coming to an end. But we believe that it is just the beginning! And we would like to start by sharing our methodology with you – a methodology to teach media literacy to young people combining Digital Journalism, Digital...
On the 19th-20th of January we kicked-off in Brussels a new project called BRIGHTS “Boosting Global Citizenship Education using digital storytelling” aimed at fostering social cohesion and promoting intercultural dialogue and democratic values in Europe. This is in response to the social division, increased migration...
Would you like to visit an organization in another country working in the same field as you? Erasmus+ Key Action 1 could be the way to do that! Join us for the webinar Erasmus+ KA1 Explained this Monday 9th January at 12h CET to find...
On December 13th, Telecentre Europe took part in an expert workshop on the effective use of technology to support refugees’ integration organised by the European Commission’s Policy Lab team in Brussels . The workshop brought together stakeholders from different backgrounds: EU policy makers & scientists, governments...
Get a glimpse of our activities in October-December and events & funding opportunities awaiting in 2017! What’s on at Telecentre Europe #TEAC16 report is out! Watch the videos from #TEAC16 Policy and advocacy news #DSJCoalition launch event e-Skills Manifesto 2016 EC Media Literacy Expert Group Projects to look...
This summarised report presents the highlights of Telecentre Europe Annual Conference 2016 'Digital Skills for Future Work', a three-day event which took place in Ghent on 6-8th Oct 2016. The report wraps up the main sessions of the two-day conference sessions and an overview of a bonus side event –...
November was the Norwegian month at #UMI_Sci_Ed! Check our blog on how the ExcITEd center works to make IT an increasingly more attractive study choice for youths. Or see an article documenting how a professor of Software Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology approaches mentoring,...