After two years of intense and productive work, the Digital Competences Development System - DCDS Project is about to end. The last two outputs produced by the consortium are now available and we invite you to check, read, use, and share! The DCDS project established a...
The DCDS project established a framework to provide low-digitally skilled adults with the basic digital and transversal competences needed for employment, personal development, social inclusion and active citizenship. The project developed an open, innovative multilingual Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) and used it to provide...
The toolkit draws on the experience of the DCDS project partners, both within the DCDS project and beyond. It is for organizations working in the field of digital skills development and digital inclusion, but could be used by a broader range of adult education providers...
See the Manifesto in .pdf Abstract Digital competences are necessary in all aspects of life, whether they are social or personal, relate to labour or leisure, in any sector, public or private. Improved citizenship is the primary aim of developing digital competences. It is our conviction that...
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...
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...
Aims Develop an item bank and methodology, and then pilot a self-assessment tool for digital competence for foundation, intermediate and advanced levels among individuals in 3 Member States of the European Union, based on Digital Competence Framework for Citizens 2.1. The Item Bank A self-assessment / self-reflection tool...
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...
The report consists of a revision of existing inter-generational and peer-to-peer in person educational programmes performed at regional, national, European and international levels and in different databases. It includes programmes, in which their efficacy in terms of digital skills improvement in old adults was evaluated. After...
The report consists of a revision of existing online resources dedicated to improving digital skills among older adults at regional, national, European and international level, covering the efficacy of such resources. This revision was performed by all partners of the ICTSkills4All project who provided data...
The ASK4JOB partnership realized between November 2018 and January 2019 a series of workshops with different stakeholders in the project countries: Lithuania, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Turkey and Greece. The purpose was to collect information concerning the most important skills and competencies that are...
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...
...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...
This is the first version of the Digital competence development methodology (DCDM) of the Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) project. The methodology and the choices based on it for the design and delivery of digital competence training to adult learners, following a blended learning approach, will...
The Self-Assessment Tool is part of the Digital Competences Development Environment and Digital Competences Development Methodology, developed within the DCDS project. In this report, the authors present the full set of self-assessment questions (SA-Qs) and the first set of knowledge and ability questions (KA-Qs) to be...
What is the profile of those EU citizens who are at risk of digital exclusion and what are the key motivation drivers for them to enroll in a digital upskilling pathway? These are the two principal questions that the partners of the Digital Competences Development System...
The workshop "Towards a European certification framework of digital skills" is part of the "ICT 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe" event in Vienna. If you are coming for the event, join our networking session. About the workshop We would like to contribute to the ongoing dialogue regarding...
On 17-18 July partners of Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) project had a project meeting in Athens, hosted by Hellenic Open University. The agenda included reviewing Context Analysis Report, Policy Influence Plan, and the design of Digital Competences Development Methodology...
Pathways for employ assessment and accreditation platform was created within the Pathways4employ project and is based on the DIGCOMP framework. It evaluates the key elements of digital competences required in two selected competence profiles: entrepreneur and virtual office worker. ...
Project Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) aims to develop an innovative multilingual Digital Competences Development System fully compatible with the European framework DigComp 2.1 and use it to provide non-formal training to low-skilled adults in the non-formal education sector in different European countries. In order to...
Are you ready to assess your digital competences? We are inviting you to participate in the pilot assessment and help us test the e-assessment tool. The e-assessment platform developed within the PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOY (onwards P4E) project under the Erasmus+ framework and supported by the...
The PATHWAYS FOR EMPLOY final conference will be held on 9 May 2018 in Brussels. In this event we will look at the digital skills needed in two interesting profiles for employment offering opportunities in the coming years: entrepreneur and ‘virtual worker’. By virtual worker we...
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...
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 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...
... 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...
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...
In today’s society everyone needs to have a wide set of skills, knowledge and competences, including a sufficient level of digital competence, in order to play an active part in society, to access and progress in the labour market, and to engage in further education...
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...
DigComp has been a key strategic priority for ALL DIGITAL in the last years. We exist to support the 44% of EU population lacking basic digital skills. A significant challenge in ensuring digital literacy for all is, however, the lack of a precise understanding of...
#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...
Author: Telecentre-Europe and Ekaterina Clifford Design: Maks vzw Year: 2017 Type: Report DOWNLOAD IN PDF See the GOW17 infographics The eighth edition of the European Get Online Week (GOW) to digitally empower people was celebrated on 27 March -2 April, 2017. It was held under the patronage of Mr Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner...
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...
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...
On 12th September DG EMPL of the European Commission held an informal meeting with stakeholders interested in the development and implementation of EU digital competence (DigComp) and entrepreneurship competence (EntreComp) frameworks. Telecentre Europe Chair Mara Jakobsone and CEO Laurentiu Bunescu took part and expressed our...
We have identified two interesting profiles for employment and digital competences offering opportunities in the coming years: entrepreneur and ‘virtual office worker’. The aim of the project is to define their competences profiles based on DigComp. We are focusing on non-formal and informal education as we want to address...
Registrations are now open for the ninth Telecentre Europe’s Annual Conference (TEAC) under the theme of Digital Skills for Future Work on 06-08th of October, 2016. This year the event will be hosted by Belgian member Digipolis Ghent at the NH Gent Belfort Hotel in Ghent. We invite you to check...
DUBLIN 2016 The FIT4JOBS partners’ team met in Dublin April 26-27 2016 to discuss the final position in the European Commission funded project to propagate the FIT (Ireland) training for employment model across five additional European countries. The team was built through partnerships with major private...
This week Telecentre Europe is celebrating the annual Get Online Week across Europe. 29 campaign partners will be running various events in 27 countries to reduce the skills gap and promote ICT jobs. The campaign runs at libraries, community centres, schools and non-for-profits across Europe every...