Digital skills and competences are increasingly pegged to proprietary software solutions. While Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) technologies are meant to be open and are freely accessible, most FLOSS users already have some competences in licensing and ownership when making the decision to use...
Join us on 20 October at 15:00 CET for a discussion on how to promote Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in non-formal adult education to support the upskilling of adult educators and learners. The event is organised in the framework of the Erasmus+ project "Open-AE:...
The final conference of the "Adult Skills for Job-Oriented Breakthrough" (Ask4Job) project took place on 27 August 2020 online. It was organised by ALL DIGITAL and the project consortium and was attended by more than 60 participants. The purpose of the event was to discuss measures...
Ask4Job is a pathway that supports the development of digital competences and cognitive skills for low-skilled, long-term unemployed adults. The project and experiences of partners, trainers and learners will be publicly presented at an online conference on Thursday 27 August 2020 from 14:00 – 17:00 by...
Registration: Mandatory; See the form below Ask4Job is a pathway that supports the development of digital competences and cognitive skills for low-skilled, long-term unemployed adults. Ask4Job offers an Open Educational Resource that could be adopted by labour market operators and adult educators/trainers, in order to realize activities...
On 7-8 October 2020, ALL DIGITAL organises its 13th annual summit ONLINE in collaboration with our German members Helliwood, JOBLINGE, and Digital Opportunities Foundation. ALL DIGITAL Summit 2020 is supported by the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the Federal Government of Germany, which has...
ALL DIGITAL hosted a high-level event entitled Individual Learning Accounts in the 2020s on 18 February 2020 with eminent keynotes speakers, an expert discussion panel and an invited audience of around 60 stakeholders. The event explored the models and opportunities that arise from implementing Individual Learning Accounts...
The DigiEduHack 2020 edition has been launched, and interested organizations can register to become hosting venues of online hackathons, physical hackathons, or blended models! The next series of Digital Education Hackathons will take place on 12-13 November 2020. The DigiEduHack is the annual meeting point for...
ALL DIGITAL hosted a high-level event Individual Learning Accounts in the 2020s on 18 February 2020 with eminent keynotes speakers, an expert discussion panel, and an invited audience of around 60 stakeholders. Renato Sabbadini, CEO of ALL DIGITAL gave a welcome to all, described the relevance...
The new European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, in her Mission Letter to Commissioner Nicolas Schmit, wrote specifically regarding Individual Learning Accounts: “You will lead the work on implementing and updating our skills agenda, focusing on identifying and filling skills shortages and supporting reskilling as...
Media literacy experts and trainers from all over Europe got together at a round table in Brussels on 19 November 2019 to discuss and lay the foundations of a training course on disinformation and fake news on social media platforms for youngsters and their parents. The...
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 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 think creatively, apply new knowledge in an effective way and become continuously competitive in our highly demanding working environment. In UMI-Sci-Ed,...
...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...
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...
Exploiting Ubiquitous computing, Mobile computing and the Internet of Things to promote Science Education The UMI-Sci-Ed project consortium invites you to the UMI-Sci-Ed conference on May 22nd, 2019, in Brussels. The UMI-Sci-Ed project enhances the attractiveness and inclusiveness of science education and careers for young people through the use of...
ALL DIGITAL and Digital Welcome project consortium invite you to the Final Event of the DIGITAL WELCOME Project Offering a digital welcome is the essence of the 'Digital Welcome' methodology. In five European countries young refugees and migrants learned to facilitate IT workshops on basic programming, digital storytelling,...
ALL DIGITAL and Lifelong Learning Platform are pleased to invite you to the stakeholder event Working together to support the 43% … of Europeans that lack digital skills to fully participate in and benefit from the digital society. When: 26 March 2019; 09:00 - 13:00 Where: SOLIDAR Foundation,...
Dear Reader, We hope you had an exciting and very eventful autumn, as we did. From the Policy Debate Digital Skills and Media Literacy for Active Citizenship to our 11th annual event ALL DIGITAL Summit 2018 and ALL DIGITAL Awards Ceremony to five new project launches...
In an effort to increase digital equity awareness globally, the US National Digital Inclusion Alliance and the Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance co-organized International Digital Inclusion Week (IDIW) on 15-21 October, 2018. IDIW2018 aimed to increase awareness and commitment to digital inclusion, create opportunities for national focus,...
Dear Reader, The autumn has had a very busy start, and we are pleased to invite you to join us for the Policy Debate "Digital Skills and Media Literacy for Active Citizenship" at the European Parliament on 27 September, for the ALL DIGITAL Summit in Brussels...
On 18-19 October 2018, ALL DIGITAL (formerly Telecentre-Europe) will organise its 11th annual summit under the title DIGITAL JOURNEY: FROM INCLUSION TO EMPOWERMENT. The event will be held in Brussels and co-hosted by our Belgian member MAKS vzw. The Summit will bring together ca. 150 leaders...
The European Youth Event is organised every second year in Strasbourg by the European Parliament to engage young people in the processes of the European Union. This year, ALL DIGITAL's Board member Nenja Wolbers was invited to be an idea giver in the session “Forever...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
By Gabriela Ruseva Telecentre Europe held its 9th Annual Conference in Ghent on 6-8th October, co-organised with our Belgian member Digipolis Gent and the I-LINC Platform. The 3-day event was attended by over a 100 invited participants and took place in the beautiful central hotel NH Belfort...
91% of all citizens in Flanders are connected to the internet at home, 78% own a laptop and 58% are the proud owner of a tablet.[1] These recent figures show that we all like to buy the latest digital devices and update our homes with the...
by Iva Walterova I-LINC, which is developing a sustainable and all-encompassing platform on the topic of ICT (for) learning and inclusion, offers its growing community of registered users an online environment for networking, participation, and learning that focuses on boosting the employability and entrepreneurship capacities of...
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...
Save the date! On 6-8 October Telecentre Europe will organise its annual conference in Ghent, Belgium, together with its member organisation Digipolis Ghent. Telecentre Europe Annual Conference (aka TEAC) is the annual meeting point for all non-profit organisations and other stakeholders interested in digital empowerment through digital skills...
By Masha Tarle Telecentre Europe held its 8th annual conference in Belgrade on 24 and 25th September, co-organised by our Serbian member International Aid Network . The 2-day event was attended by almost 150 participants and was held in the beautiful hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade where...
The Unite-IT network established the Digital Inclusion Award in 2014 as the annual recognition to organisations and professionals who work in the field of digital inclusion and who create, often with very small resources, innovative ways to bring digital opportunities and skills to people in...