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Join DigComp Community of Practice (CoP)

Afonso Araujo — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:42:14 +0000

The DigComp Community of Practice (CoP) was created as a collaborative space to support and engage adult education providers and stakeholders across Europe in their digital transformation journey.

Originally, ALL DIGITAL established the CoP on the Basecamp platform to facilitate consultation on the updates of the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp), in close cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and DG EMPL. This initiative successfully has brought together hundreds of educational experts, creating a valuable pool of knowledge and practice that needed to be preserved and expanded. More recently, building on this foundation, the DigComp Hub project (2023–2025) has invested in strengthening and scaling up the CoP into a comprehensive environment for knowledge sharing, peer learning, and exchange of best practices related to the use of the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp).

Currently, our stakeholders can find a myriad of interesting content, such as:

Access practical resources and toolkits,
Participate in training and mentoring programmes,
Share experiences and case studies,
Learn from peers and explore innovative practices in applying DigComp.
Inspiring Experiences Webinar Series
CoP Guidelines

Invitation to Join

The DigComp CoP is open to everyone – both individuals and organisations. Feel free to invite colleagues and partners by spreading the word.

We warmly invite all stakeholders in the field of digital inclusion and education to join the DigComp CoP. By becoming a member, you will have the opportunity to:

Raise issues and contribute to discussions,
Participate in working groups,
Exchange materials, experiences, and resources,
Access good practices and the latest developments on DigComp,
Connect with peers across Europe.

If you would like to be part of this vibrant community, please fill in the registration form below.

We look forward to meeting you online!

If you don’t see the form below, here is the direct link to the DigComp CoP registration form.

Fill out my online form.

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12 working groups and 400 members in the DigComp community of practice

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:21:03 +0000

The DigComp community of practice (CoP) was established in October 2019 on the ALL DIGITAL Basecamp platform to facilitate the exchange of information and good practices among stakeholders and to promote the adoption and support the development of DigComp, the European Digital Competence Framework for all Citizens.

Since January 2021, with the launch of the DigComp 2.2 revision process in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), both the membership and activity of the CoP have grown significantly.

There are now almost 400 members (up from 120 in early January) from 48 countries around the world, including all EU member states. About 160 members are from the education sector (2/3 of them from university), 100 from digital competence centres and other third sector organisations, 80 from the public sector (including 20 from the European Commission) and the remaining from various business areas.

For the DigComp 2.2 revision, 12 working groups have been working since February 2021 on different themes (see table 1): first, to collaboratively identify new requirements of citizens’ digital competence coming from new areas and developments in the digital world and later, to identify examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) stemming from those requirements. In September 2021, these examples will be validated by the CoP members, other experts and stakeholders, and then JRC will use them to update, by the end of 2021, dimension 4 (KSA examples) of the DigComp framework.

Table 1 – DigComp2.2 revision working groups

1.Information literacy	7.Safety and security
2.Data literacy	8.Consumer and government transaction services
3.Artificial intelligence	9.Creating multi/social media content
4.Internet of things	10.Digital and the environment
5.Programming	11. Teleworking
6.Privacy and personal data	12. Digital accessibility

On Tuesdays at 2 PM every two weeks until 15 June, ALL DIGITAL and JRC organise 1-hour webinars where EU developments (regulations, projects) related to the DigComp 2.2 revision themes and related work-in-progress by the working groups are presented to CoP members and anyone interested in them. The next webinar on 4 May is titled “AI systems and IoT – what competences do citizens need?“. The next ones already planned will be on 18 May (Well-being and safety) and 1 June (Data literacy).

Besides the DigComp 2.2 revision process, the CoP has hosted lively discussions and information exchanges among members on: which digital competences teachers should have to teach them to their students; DigComp courses for refugees; DigComp-based certification schemes (how to validate them) and self-assessment tools (which ones exist), and other topics.

If you are interested in joining the DigComp CoP, you can register here.

By Stefano Kluzer

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MyDigiSkills – a new tool to self-reflect on your digital competence level

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:26:28 +0000

MyDigiSkills is a new tool to help users understand their digital competences. It is based on the work done in the DigCompSAT project, as delivered by ALL DIGITAL for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2020.

The tool was launched on 23 March with an audience of over 100 people at the special webinar organised within All Digital Week 2021. Scroll down to watch the recording of the webinar.

MyDigiSkills is available in seven languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Romanian. It is based on DigComp 2.1, and it is anticipated that users will take around 20 minutes to complete the self-reflection assessment. The user will receive a personalised report on their digital competences that they can use to identify their strengths and weaknesses and identify the areas they could develop through training.

The webinar helped delegates understand the new MyDigiSkills.eu platform. It covered its history of development, rationale behind the tool, and provided in-depth coverage on how it works, its target audience, and potential uses.

We would like to thank our partners who made this tool possible: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Stefano Kluzer, Sandra Troia, Mara Jakobsone, Uldis Zandbergs, AUPEX – Folk-High-School Association of Extremadura, Repubblica Digitale, Stiftung Digitale Chancen, Ikanos, Langas I Ateiti, LIKTA, EOS Romania Foundation.

PROGRAMME

Moderator – Ian Clifford, ALL DIGITAL

(All the timings below are hyperlinked and refer to the video)

See the presentations from the event (all in one file)

00:00:39	Welcome from ALL DIGITAL. Peter Palvolgyi, CEO of ALL DIGITALHistory and background 00:06:35 The DigCompSat project – Ian Clifford 00:10:58 The Item Bank – Stefano Kluzer 00:31:21 Statistical Analysis – Mara Jakobsone
00:44:43	From DigCompSAT to MyDigiSkills – Antonio Roman Casas, AUPEX
00:49:50	Overview of the MyDigiSkills system: rationale, aim, benefits. Walkthrough of the system – Ian Clifford Languages Registration Data held The Item Bank Report Counter
01:08:25	Suggested models for use 01:08:25 Suggested models for use from Spain – Gema Parrado Leon, AUPEX01:10:20 Questions and Answers01:17:50 Suggested models for use from Latvia – Mara Jakobsone, LIKTA 01:20:55 Suggested models for use from Italy – Stefano Kluzer 01:23:10 What’s next?
01:25:45	All Digital Week – Ekaterina Clifford, ALL DIGITAL

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Consultation on the Feasibility Study for a European Digital Competence Certificate

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:21:54 +0000

The Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) published on 30 September 2020, proposed to “Develop a European Digital Skills Certificate (EDSC) that may be recognised and accepted by governments, employers and other stakeholders across Europe. This would allow Europeans to indicate their level of digital competences, corresponding to the Digital Competence Framework proficiency levels”.

The first task towards that objective will be development of a Feasibility Study.

ALL DIGITAL is supporting the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) to develop the feasibility study. One of the key criteria for the study is to consult with stakeholders at each stage.

For the next 10 days, ALL DIGITAL will manage a consultation on the focus of the feasibility study in the Digital Competence Certification Community of Practice. All members of the CoP are encouraged to contribute your views and ideas.

Please also feel free to invite stakeholders and experts to join the CoP via the following link.

We will be sharing updates and news on the feasibility study through the CoP going forward.

Today, the first day of the consultation, please feel free to pose your questions and thoughts and we will try to clarify.

Over the next few days we will post specific questions to gather your input. It is essential to gather input from stakeholders to ensure the eventual feasibility study is developed with the needs of the digital competence community in mind.

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DigCompSAT Report is out!

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:55:16 +0000

European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in collaboration with ALL DIGITAL’s experts published a report on DigComp Self-Assessment Tool (DigCompSAT).

The tool is designed with a methodological perspective that allows measuring of digital competence by the three elements – knowledge, skills and attitude – for each of the 5 DigComp areas.
It also provides respondents with a self-reflection path on their digital competence.
The tool was piloted in Ireland, Latvia and Spain by 16-65 year old individuals.
This report describes the process and methodology taken to achieve the result.
The annexes provide the statistical data and the Item Bank used.

ABSTRACT

The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) provides a comprehensive approach for digital competence that can be adapted to many areas of life. The DigCompSat tool aims at testing empirically the set of DigComp 2.1 competences corresponding to levels 1 to 6 (foundation, intermediate and advanced). It can be considered that these are the most widely needed digital competence levels for most European citizens for their employment and career development.

The tool is designed with a methodological perspective that allows measuring of digital competence by the three elements – knowledge, skills and attitude –for each of the 5 DigComp areas. It also provides respondents with a self-reflection path on their digital competence.

The tool was piloted in Ireland, Latvia and Spain by 16-65 year-old individuals. The selected countries represented the three country categories defined by the Digital Skills Index (DESI) in 2020 regarding the percentage of the no-and low-skilled population in the society: Ireland over EU average, Spain close to EU average, and Latvia below EU average.

The piloting provided reliable feedback of digital competence level for the 5 competence areas for different age and gender groups, education and digital skills levels. The DigComp tool has sound psychometric properties, including the validity and internal consistency of the items. The tool is able to perform three main functions for test takers: measuring existing competences based on the respondents’ self-reflection; identifying competence gaps;and raising awareness. The conciseness of the items allowed a test-time of less than 30 minutes across different countries, age and educational background groups and genders.

This report describes the process and methodology taken to achieve the result. The annexes provide the statistical data and the Item Bank used. To achieve the Item Bank, a number of experts and users have been involved in iterative consultations and focus groups as part of the applied methodology during the initial design, validation and development process of the tool.

> Check the report on our Resources page

> Check the publication on European Commission’s page: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/digcompsat

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DigCompSAT Report

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:37:45 +0000

The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) provides a comprehensive approach for digital competence that can be adapted to many areas of life. The DigCompSat tool aims at testing empirically the set of DigComp 2.1 competences corresponding to levels 1 to 6 (foundation, intermediate and advanced). It can be considered that these are the most widely needed digital competence levels for most European citizens for their employment and career development.

The tool is designed with a methodological perspective that allows measuring of digital competence by the three elements – knowledge, skills and attitude – for each of the 5 DigComp areas. It also provides respondents with a self-reflection path on their digital competence.

The tool was piloted in Ireland, Latvia and Spain by 16-65 year old individuals. The selected countries represented the three country categories defined by the Digital Skills Index (DSI) in 2020 regarding the percentage of the no- and low-skilled population in the society: Ireland over EU average, Spain close to EU average, and Latvia below EU average.

The piloting provided reliable feedback of digital competence level for the 5 competence areas for different age and gender groups, education and digital skills levels.

The DigComp tool has sound psychometric properties, including the validity and internal consistency of the items. The tool is able to perform three main functions for test takers: measuring existing competences based on the respondents’ self-reflection; identifying competence gaps; and raising awareness. The conciseness of the items allowed a test-time of less than 30 minutes across different countries, age and educational background groups and genders.

This report describes the process and methodology taken to achieve the result. The annexes provide the statistical data and the Item Bank used. To achieve the Item Bank, a number of experts and users have been involved in iterative consultations and focus groups as part of the applied methodology during the initial design, validation and development process of the tool.

Publication on the EU Commission JRC Website

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Policy Recommendations and Policy Influence Kit from DCDS project

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:50:45 +0000

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 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), aligned to DigComp, and used it to provide non-formal training to low-skilled adults in different European countries.

The DCDS policy influence toolkit and the DCDS policy recommendations are closely linked and they both aim at empowering policy-makers and key stakeholders from different fields in formulating integrated policies for developing and recognising adult citizens’ basic digital competence.

The DCDS Policy Influence Toolkit consists of a series of tools and suggestions on how to develop a strategy to influence policy makers (and ultimately policy making). The toolkit is for organizations working in the field of digital skills development and e-inclusion, but could be used by a broader range of adult education providers and organizations that wish to develop their policy influence strategy at local, regional and national level.

The DCDS policy recommendations suggest clear policy objectives related to increasing the number of adults having basic digital skills and identify the changes needed to support this policy outcome. The recommendations also provide effective proposals on how to include the DCDS project outputs within new digital competence policies and showcase some inspiring examples that could be used to improve existing ones. The policy recommendations address three main target groups: European policymakers, national and regional policymakers and local authorities.

>> The work on these documents was led by the project partner European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA). Read more about these outputs and feedback on them in the article DCDS, a project with a strong policy impact.

>> Learn more about DCDS project results and check other resources developed by the Consortium!

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ALL DIGITAL Newsletter September 2019

Andrea Bedorin — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:59:07 +0000

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 DIGITAL Summit. There is also a training offer and a contest for some of you! Check those out in this newsletter.

Yours,
ALL DIGITAL Team

In this issue:

What’s on at ALL DIGITAL

Projects to look at

News from members

>> See ourSeptember issue online

>> Check other issues of our newsletter

>>If you wish to receive our newsletter, please sign up by filling in our online subscription form

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DigCompSAT

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:10:45 +0000

PROJECT AIM

The project aim was to 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 to:

make users aware of what is digital competence in the DigComp perspective;
highlight their strengths and weaknesses in different areas of digital competence;
encourage further competence development, by providing useful feedback to be discussed with expert counsellors.

Tool should be easy to understand and self-administer by the user, in a reasonably short time.

COMPLETED KEY STAGES

Developed methodology and draft Item Bank across all 21 competences of DigComp2.1.
Validated and refined item bank with panel of experts during validation workshop in Brussels.
Made a first test on the initial item bank among 150 individuals in Ireland.
- Participants: 16-65 years old, native English with preliminary expected digital skills level from foundation up to advanced users.
Carried out psychometric and statistical analysis (including factor analysis) of results and refined item bank as necessary.
Made a second test on the revised item bank among 400 individuals in Spain and Latvia (with localized languages) with same participant demographics.
Carried out statistical analysis of reliability of second pilot results and refine item bank again as necessary.
Produced final report of methodology and item bank (published during year 2020).

PARTNERS

Irish Computer Society (ICS), Ireland
Ibermatica, Basque Country Government, Spain
Baltic Computer Academy, Latvia

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THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL SKILLS FOR LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED ADULTS

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:22:45 +0000

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 requested today by companies in all the partnership’s countries.

The workshops were conducted based on a European Awareness Scenario Workshop (EASW) – a method that allows the promotion of an effective debate of various groups of interest, favoring the participation of different set of stakeholders, a solid balance between the contribution of all groups and a cross-breeding between different ideas and worldviews. EASW is particularly successful in local contexts, where it is extremely easy to match individual problems with their causes, making it easier to find a solution.

The final report provides an important comparative perspective on the European situation with digital literacy in the workplace. In the short version you can see the findings per country

On the basis of the collected information, the ASK4JOB partnership will produce a set of tools to assess educational pathway and value digital literacy competences. The direct beneficiaries will be long-term unemployed (2 years or more), low skilled people coming from previous work experiences, which can be referenced to a European Qualification Framework EQF 3 or 4.

Outcomes of the discussion held in the EASW were used to shape the tools of assessment and, consequently, in the training programme that will be delivered to Ask4Job users through the MOOC. The assessment will provide personalised instructions on how to get access to a development programme of digital upskilling, designed specifically for technical professions (EQF 4) in commerce and services sectors.

Application of workshop results to DIGCOMP’s five areas of digital competences and practical indications

The report presents the connections between the indications provided by stakeholders in the EASW and the five thematic areas of DIGCOMP 2.1, put in reference with processes performed in technical jobs within commerce and service sectors.

You can see both Short version and Full Version of the Report

Learn more about the project https://www.ask4job.net/ and follow it on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Ask4JobProject/

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Digital SkillShift project launches

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:09:33 +0000

The rapid technological improvements in the last decades have unlocked many new job possibilities. More than ever, digital skills are essential for adult workers to take advantage of these opportunities and play a key role in the evolution of the digital economy.

The purpose of the Digital SkillShift project is to reskill and upskill unemployed citizens facing the challenges of the digital transformation in their professional career. This project aims to support participants to develop new digital skills and attitudes required to succeed in today’s labour market, with a pilot supporting 150 adults into good jobs in France, Germany and Italy.

The JPMorgan Chase Foundation is supporting Digital SkillShift as part of their philanthropic commitment to drive inclusive economic growth and advance skills-based training. “The need for digital skills has never been greater. With the proliferation of technology in all aspects of our lives as well as across an increasing number of occupations, workers need to have a higher basic level of digital skills to perform at their highest level or to compete for good jobs. Our objective with this project is to help people make the most of the new emerging opportunities technology can bring while demonstrating to employers the benefits to their businesses in upskilling and investing in existing employees,” says Hang Ho, head of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation in EMEA and LATAM.

The project will also work to mobilise employers to support a new way of thinking about employment and recruitment. It promotes the idea of employers’ ongoing engagement in the process of preparing their (future) employees through tailor-made training programmes, rather than simply going to the market when they need to fill in a position.

ALL DIGITAL will lead this project and work with experienced partners from three EU countries to implement the project. In Germany (Berlin) they will work with Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation), a foundation working since 2002 whose aim is for the digital inclusion of all societal groups and counteracting the digital divide. In Italy (Rome) the partner is Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti, which develops scientifically based educational programmes that can help the new generations to deal successfully with change. The third partner is Simplon.co in France (Paris), a network of social digital factories in France and abroad, that have trained more than 3000 people in the digital sector since 2013.

Laurentiu Bunescu, CEO of ALL DIGITAL, said, “We really want the beneficiaries to gain tangible benefits from the training programme; to come out of it feeling that not only their digital skills have shifted up a gear, but their whole career horizon and prospects have shifted. The companies involved should also see this as an innovative model to help them recruit people with the right skills and the right digital mindset for our ever-changing working environment.”

The organisations kicked off the project and joined other practitioners, employers and government representatives at a conference about increasing diversity in the tech sector through inclusive training programmes, based on JPMorgan Chase Foundation supported research and findings from Empirica.

The project will propose an innovative learning programme. Firstly, Basic digital and soft skills for employability. This training will be mapped to the five competence areas of European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp): Information and data literacy, Communication and collaboration, Digital content creation, Safety and Problem-solving. Secondly, specific ICT project assistance skills. The digital competences selected for the training will be based on the outcomes of our discussions with employers from the ICT and service sectors, where the re-skilled beneficiaries will find a job after the training. These might include project management software, such as tools for project planning, research, team work and collaboration. Moreover, the project includes and highlights the benefits of a joint digital and soft skills training for employability in the current (European) economic context (the major digital skills gap).

The project aims to support 150 participants into work in digital jobs. This training model will also be shared with other digital competence centres to support more adult workers access to digital up-skilling opportunities. The project is offering training and job placement support mainly for short-term unemployed (below 12 months), low-skilled adults. This project will seek to equip trainees with digital and soft skills that are needed by the ICT and services industry to access quality jobs.

ALL DIGITAL, established in 2007, is a major European Association in the field of digital inclusion and empowerment united by one purpose: empower Europe through digital skills. Our vision is that every European should be able to exploit the opportunities created by digital transformation. Our members are low threshold community centres, NGOs, libraries, other public places where people can access technology and the Internet and learn digital skills. http://www.all-digital.eu

The Patrizio Paoletti Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Rome and it is registered in the National Research Registry Office at the Ministry of Education, University and Research. The Foundation is committed to the discovery of new models of knowledge that support mankind in its own course of development and growth from the perspective of lifelong learning and lifewide education. Find out more at http://www.fondazionepatriziopaoletti.org/

The task of the Stiftung Digital Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation) is to research the social consequences of digitisation, to work for equal access to the Internet for all people and to strengthen their media skills. The aim is to promote the digital integration of all social groups and to counteract the threat of a digital divide. The Foundation is under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Find out more at: www.digitale-chancen.de

Simplon.co is a network of 53 inclusive digital schools in France and abroad. It provides free and intensive training bootcamps for jobseekers and other vulnerable populations (women, NEETS, refugees) to help them find a job in the tech sector. So far, they have trained 3224 people with a rate of 76% positive outcomes. Simplon.co is also a rich ecosystem of digital service production, events and activities where both regions and businesses experience digital transformation. At the end of 2018, Simplon is present in 15 different countries including Spain, Belgium, Romania, Switzerland, Jordan, Lebanon, India, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Madagascar.
Find out more at https://simplon.co/

The JPMorgan Chase Foundation is the charitable arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.4 trillion and operations worldwide. The Foundation focuses on driving economic growth and strengthening communities across the globe, by partnering with local efforts to advance skills-based training, help small businesses and improve financial capability for underserved people. The Firm, through its foundation gives approximately $250 million annually to nonprofit organizations around the world and lead volunteer service activities for employees in local communities, utilizing its many resources, including access to capital, strength, global reach and expertise.
Find out more at www.jpmorganchase.com

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The Digital Competences Development Methodology (DCDM)

Afonso Araujo — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:10:00 +0000

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 be tested in pilot training activities in five DCDS partner countries (Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, and Spain). Based on the feedback and results of the training pilots, the DCDM will be revised and updated as deliverable D9, due in October 2019.

This document presents the following components of the methodology.

Chapter 1 illustrates the steps and results of the implementation process of the European Digital competence framework for all citizens (DigComp) for the purposes of the DCDS project. DCDS focuses exclusively on proficiency levels 1 and 2 (foundation level) across all 21 DigComp competences. The corresponding competence descriptors were specified into 95 learning outcomes (LOUTs) drawn from or inspired by various sources (Annex 1 lists the 95 LOUTs and Annex 5 all the sources used). These include the Digital Economy and Society Index produced by Eurostat, which measures amongst other aspects the level of digital skills in the whole European population.

Chapter 2 illustrates the principles of formal and non-formal adult education adopted in DCDS and the attention that will be paid to social learning aspects. The second part of the chapter clarifies how blended learning will occur in DCDS, by describing the facilitation, tutoring and teaching functions that will be performed and the Teacher Guide to support them, and by briefly presenting the technical tools that will be used. The blended learning will combine face-to-face training in the premises of the DCDS partners’ digital competence centres with online learning via the Digital competence development environment (DCDE), based on a Moodle platform.

Chapter 3 is devoted to the training offer and instructional elements of DCDS. It first illustrates how participants will be profiled and asked to take a self-assessment test in order to customize their learning experience. Then the chapter presents the training offer structured into 4 learning paths (LPs), made of a total 64 learning units (LUs) organized into 19 thematic modules, which are designed to achieve all the 95 identified learning outcomes covering the 21 DigComp competence. In the DCDS pilots, individual participants will be able to take the base LP plus only one of the three complementary LPs, due to the project’s time limitations (course duration in the pilots will be 60 hours: 40 hours of face-to-face training and 20 hours of online activity).

Chapter 4 presents the main notions and options of the game-like application the will be integrated into the DCDE primarily in order to enhance the participants’ motivation to engage in the course.

Finally, Chapter 5 presents the evaluation system in DCDS which addresses learning assessment (both formative and summative), competence validation with the issuing of badges and course quality evaluation.

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Contents of the self-assessment tool (DCDS)

Afonso Araujo — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:14:45 +0000

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 used in the online initial assessment of candidate customers of the DCD environment (DCDE), i.e. the online platform being developed by the DCDS project for blended learning activity. These questions, along with some additional KA-Qs, which are being defined as part of the learning material, will be embedded in the platform’s online tool and will be translated into the five piloting partners’ languages (Greek, Italian, Latvian, Romanian and Spanish), in order to be tested during the pilots during March-May 2019.

The potential users of the DCDE are adults (25+) with no or low digital skills. In fact, people without any digital experience and skills will skip the online self-assessment test, as they would not be able to take it and also because their need for training is self-evident.

Absolute beginners will therefore be offered to enter directly into the DCDS blended learning process, after taking an initial face-to-face training designed to enable them to start using a computer, performing simple operations with keyboard and mouse and using the desktop interface. Absolute beginners will be asked anyway (in person) a set of profiling questions to assess other aspects that may be relevant to facilitate and enhance their training.

For the other potential DCDE users, the questions illustrated in this report aim to identify their digital competence weaknesses, so as to decide whether they indeed need to be trained by DCDS (which is currently limited to DigComp’s foundation level 1-2), and which training offer they should start from. The results of the online self-assessment will feed into the candidate/user profile, where they will be integrated with the answers to another set of profiling questions. These additional questions concern the candidate’s personal data, his/her main interests and motivations and other aspects that could help in the learning process.

Report is available in the following languages: English, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Romanian, Spanish

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Context Analysis Report for Digital Competences Development System

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:13:54 +0000

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 (DCDS) project tried to answer involving policy makers, educational experts and digitally low-skilled adults in a series of focus groups carried at national level in Italy, Romania, Latvia, Greece, and Spain during the first 5 months of the project in 2018.

As a result, after an intense activity of internal and external review, the report not only represents the main contextual basis for the Digital Competences Development System, but also provides an interesting and updated European overview on digital training needs and strategies for adult learners.

Among other relevant factors, the capacity of DCDS in providing certification of the acquired competences (in an integrated way with the already existing systems and practices) is validated by public authorities and recognized by the private sector. This capacity is considered as the most important issue for the wider acceptance of the system and especially for its sustainability.

Finally, the current situation shows that, in all partner Countries, large segments of the population are at risk of social exclusion due to the lack of digital competences. With an average age of 39,65 years old, the sample invited to the local focus groups shows a balanced and heterogeneous representation of the European civil society, with a slight majority of women (57%), a high rate of unemployment (50%), despite a quite high level of education (86% with a diploma, out of which 52% has achieved also a higher education title).

Therefore, considering that all the participants fall into the category of digitally low-skilled adults, it is immediately clear how, in the countries involved in the field research, the actual educational systems do not satisfy the requirements of the labour market in terms of digital skills. Thus, from this side, it also contributes to high rates of unemployment and, consequently, to a widespread socio-economic disadvantage for those who are digitally left behind.

Within this framework, the sustainability of DCDS can be guaranteed by finding a balance between priorities (scenarios: job context, daily activities, etc.), actual material resources, adults’ motivation, and the services/products (self-assessment, blended course, certification) provided by the project.

With four out of five partner Countries below the European average score in the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2018 ranking, the DCDS project represents not only an important opportunity for the organisations and the stakeholders who will be finally involved in the local pilots, but also an interesting experimentation for all those active in the promotion and implementation of e-inclusion of all Europe.

Therefore, within the framework of such a challenging and epochal change for an effective and sustainable digital transformation of our society, DCDS aims at proposing its methodology and learning environment as a one-stop-shop solution for the skill assessment, training and certification addressed (for now) to digitally low-skilled adults.

Learn more about the DCDS project on the project website

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Context Analysis Report for Digital Competences Development System

Andrea Bedorin — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:05:32 +0000

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 DCDS (Digital Competences Development System) project have tried to answer involving policy makers, educational experts and digitally low-skilled adults in a series of focus groups carried at national level in Italy, Romania, Latvia, Greece and Spain during the first 5 months of the project in 2018.

As a result, the report does not only represent the main contextual basis for the development of the Digital Competences Development System, but also provides an interesting and updated European overview on digital training needs and strategies for adult learners.

Among other relevant factors, the capacity of DCDS in providing certification of the acquired competences (in an integrated way with the already existing systems and practices) is validated by public authorities and recognized by the private sector. This capacity is considered as the most important issue for the wider acceptance of the system and especially for its sustainability.

Finally, the current situation shows that, in all partner countries large segments of the population are at risk of social exclusion due to the lack of digital competences. Within this framework, the sustainability of DCDS can be guaranteed by finding a balance between priorities (scenarios: job context, daily activities, etc.), actual material resources, adults’ motivation, and the services/products (self-assessment, blended course, certification) provided by the project.

With four out of five partner countries below the European average score in the DESI 2018 ranking, the DCDS project represents not only an important opportunity for the organisations and the stakeholders who will be finally involved in the local pilots, but also an interesting experimentation for all those active in the promotion and implementation of e-inclusion of all Europe.

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Designing the system to develop digital competences of adults with low digital skills

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:37:20 +0000

Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) is the name and the main deliverable of the project which is implemented by the consortium of eight organisations from Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, and Spain. The system, fully aligned with European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp), will be used to provide non-formal training for adults with low digital skills to improve their basic digital and transversal competences needed for employment, personal development, social inclusion and active citizenship.

On 17-18 July representatives of partner organisations gathered in Athens for the DCDS project meeting, which was hosted by Hellenic Open University. The main points of the meeting agenda were devoted to reviewing key project tasks and deliverables, including Context Analysis Report, Policy Influence Plan, and the design of Digital Competences Development Methodology.

Context Analysis Report

The Context Analysis Report was presented by Altheo Valentini from Centro Studi Foligno. The report is based on the research implemented at both national level (CSF and AECA in Italy, HOU in Greece, ESPLAI in Spain, LIKTA in Latvia, EOS in Romania) and international level (thanks to the networks represented by ALL DIGITAL and EAEA), with the main objective of investigating on the adoption of DigComp Framework in non-formal education for adults; andreviewing and analysing existing e-Inclusion policies based on their consistency with DigComp and other EU flagship initiatives in the field of adult education. Preliminary results of the research were presented and discussed during five national focus groups with policy makers and adult learning providers, mostly focused on the collaborative prioritization of the basic digital skills to be acquired by EU +25yo citizens in the 21st century. Then these findings were validated during a second session with selected digitally low-skilled adults – the main target group of the project.

The Context Analysis Report focuses on:

Adult learning and e-Inclusion policies in Europe
Good practices in the adoption of DigComp in Europe
The adult education practice and policy context
Self-assessment and training needs of digitally low-skilled adults

Altheo Valentini shared the key results of the report review, and partners discussed the comments received from stakeholders and experts from all project countries, all of which will be used to improve the report. The report will be finalised and available in autumn, so stay tuned.

Influencing Policy to support Europeans in gaining digital skills

Policy influence plan workshop was conducted by Gina Ebner and Georgios Karaikos of European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA). Georgios presented the sections of the DCDS Policy Influence Plan: policy context, objectives, target groups, allies, communication strategy, policy influence methods, timeline and resources, and next steps.

Gina Ebner moderated the group activities. During the first part, partners identified the strengths and weaknesses of the document and then together analysed the comments. The second activity focused on “why and how to convince policy makers”, where each partner drafted a small personalised Policy Influence Plan for their own context and later discussed the results and got a feedback from EAEA.

The simple guide on policy influence will be published on the project website soon – check it out!

Designing the Methodology and Environment

The second day of the project meeting was devoted to designing the Digital Competences Development Methodology for training adults with low digital skills – the core of the project and its main deliverable. The reviewed tasks included learning outcomes, self-assessment tool, training modules, and educational materials.

Stefano Kluzer from AECA presented the results of the work AECA did on DigComp competence specification and learning outcomes. The goal of this task was to identify and specify learning outcomes for all 21 DigComp competences at level 1-2. Each DigComp competence has been «translated/specified» into several learning outcomes, with two selection criteria: appropriate for foundation level and relevant for inclusion.

The next task for meeting participants was to learn about the proposed aims and approach for the self-assessment tool. The aim of the tool is to identify adult learners’ digital competence weaknesses and gaps to be addressed by training, not to profile learners’ overall digital competences (which is the aim of the final assessment). Some of the critical issues were raised and solutions discussed on:

How to make assessment more informative?
How to assess other aspects besides digital competences, such as desire to learn, interest that could drive learning, and personal assets to build upon?
How to motivate users to take the training with the help of the self-assessment tool?

After reviewing the approach, participants worked in groups to assess the contents of the self-assessment tool and provide written feedback on assessment questions.

Another part of the methodology design is its instructional elements – training modules, as well as education material. AECA‘s Rodolfo Padroni presented the proposal of DCDS training modules. The partners agreed that there would be 21 training modules – one per each digital competences to align with DigComp. The partners were also asked to assess the module frames, including proper and complementary learning outcomes and produce written feedback, which was collected by AECA for further development.

In the following months the partners will identify relevant educational material for DCDS, which has to be associated with learning outcomes. A lot of work ahead!

Other topics addressed during the meeting

Design and development of digital competences development environment, Spiros Borotis, Hellenic Open University

Piloting and evaluation of the system, by Kristīne Bergmane-Korate, LIKTA
Dissemination activities, by Ekaterina Clifford, ALL DIGITAL
Management and quality assurance, by Peter Palvolgyi, ALL DIGITAL

Would you like to know more about the project development? Check the website dcds-project.eu

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Pathways4Employ Self-Assessment Tool

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:59:06 +0000

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.

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Developing digital competences – views of experts and low-skilled adults

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:08:00 +0000

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 set the basis for an effective development of such a framework, during the first six months of the project (January-June 2018), the project partners carried out a desk and a field research under the methodological guidance of the Association Study Centre City of Foligno (CSF).

Focus group in Italy / CSF

As part of the field research, project partners organised two types of focus groups in their countries – Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Spain – with main stakeholders, such as training providers, educational experts, policy makers, representatives of government bodies, and with beneficiaries – adults with low digital skills.

The core of the discussions with stakeholders was focused on the target groups, basic digital and transversal skills to be acquired by EU adult citizensб and related priorities that the DCDS project should address in order to better impact the lives of citizens with low digital skills.

Focus group in Latvia / LIKTA

The beneficiaries of the project – adults with low digital skills shared their expectations and doubts about online versus face-to-face training, digital skills certification and assessment, and other topics related to the DCDS platform future development.

You can read about the findings of the focus groups in each country on the project website:

The findings of the focus groups and desk research are used for the Context Analysis Report, which will be reviewed by project partners in July and then will be available on the project website.

The Context Analysis Report will include:

Adult learning and e-inclusion policies in Europe
Good practices in the adoption of DigComp in Europe
The adult education practice and policy context
Training needs of digitally low-skilled adults

Learn more about the DCDS project and follow its development here

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Check your digital competences and help test the e-assessment tool!

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:39:15 +0000

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 European Union, is available here: http://www.pathwaysforemploy.eu
Pathways for employ assessment and accreditation platform is based on the DIGCOMP framework and evaluates the key elements of the digital competences that are required in the competence profiles selected. The assessment tool is developed for 2 profiles: entrepreneur and virtual office worker.

Please, follow the steps for testing the P4E assessment platform and evaluate its main functionalities:

1) We recommend that you watch the 2-minute video before you start.

2) Register on the platform at http://pathwaysforemploy.eu.

IMPORTANT: During the registration, the system will ask for your Piloting Group ID, please use AD06

3) Login to the platform and check your digital profile and both competence
profiles.

4) To take the test select “Access your digital competences and choose the
section – Let’s Go!”

5) Choose the selected area of competence, language and start the test. You can choose any area to test (or all of them), and you can take any number of tests.

6) The test has 5 items per digital competence and consists of theoretical questions, interactive simulations and practical case studies. It takes about 30 minutes, you can’t skip questions, but you can stop and continue later. At the end of the test, your digital profile will be updated with the results, and you will also receive an email with the results. You can receive a badge and a certificate. You can take the test as many times as you want.

7) The most important for us – please provide feedback! The link to the feedback form will be at the end of the exam, on the last page (the page with the results). As this is the piloting phase, we would very much appreciate your feedback – this will help us improve the tool.

If you have more questions, please check the Instructions_for_the_pilot with (more) screenshots and explanations.

Thank you for your input!

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PATHWAYS4EMPLOY ONLINE ASSESSMENT TOOL COMING SOON

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:50:14 +0000

… or What happened at the 4^th 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 platform and assessment tool for digital skills of entrepreneurs and virtual office workers. Tecnalia presented the beta version of the platform. Then partners put themselves in the shoes of entrepreneurs and virtual workers, which is not that difficult because in fact most of us are or have been in one of these roles at some point in our professional life, or even in both.

The online assessment tool itself consists of two tests – one tailored for entrepreneurs, with scenarios specific to their context, and one for virtual workers, again, based on situations that virtual workers face in their everyday work.

The tests are based on a bank of questions. Their order is randomly generated, so you can’t take the same test twice. The questions are divided into five areas: Information and Data literacy, Communication and Collaboration, Digital Content Creation, Safety and Problem Solving. Sounds familiar? That’s right! These are the five areas of the European Digital Competence Framework.

Remember that in an earlier phase of the project, we developed the ideal digital competence profile of entrepreneurs and virtual workers, again based on the 21 competences of the Framework (our bible) divided in five areas.

Now with the online assessment tool, everyone can test where they stand compared to the ideal profile, and where they need to improve.

The test is also a learning tool. By being challenged to solve the questions, the users will be learning by doing, and will discover how digital technologies can help them in their work in ways they didn’t know before.

What are the next steps?

Of course, no tool is perfect from the first time. In Riga partners worked hard to identify bugs and ways to improve the platform and the questions and solve bugs. We are now working on these improvements and will be ready for a small piloting of the platform with experts and the end of March. And then?

Then the tool goes public! Everyone will be able to try it in English, Spanish, Basque, Latvian and Greek in April 2018. So, stay tuned and prepare to get your digital skills to the next level.

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Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) project launched in Brussels

Andrea Bedorin — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:26:12 +0000

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 and has poor numeracy and digital skills. Adults who do not possess a sufficient level of such skills face a high risk of social exclusion.

The DCDS project aims to establish a framework that will provide the low-skilled adult European population with the basic digital and transversal competences needed for employment, personal development, social inclusion and active citizenship. To achieve this aim, the project will develop an open, innovative multilingual Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) and use it to provide non-formal training to low-skilled adults in different European countries.

What will the project deliver?

The Digital Competences Development Methodology (DCDM) for the development of digital competences and related transversal skills of adults
The online Digital Competences Development Environment (DCDE) consisting of the following modules:
- Self-assessment tool that allows adults identify gaps in basic digital competences;
- Recommender tool that enables trainees to identify the training offers that best match their needs;
- Online tools for the management of trainees’ profiles and the definition of flexible learning pathways that combine training modules;
- Online learning application with gamification features;
- Multilingual digital Open Educational Resources; and
- Validation and certification of digital and transversal competences.
Personalised blended non-formal training composed by training modules to meet individual learning needs, which combine online learning with face-to-face support sessions by e-facilitators
Handbooks and course guides for implementing the methodology to assist the trainers and the training providers in planning and delivering flexible and modular training offers
Policy Influence Toolkit for training providers and policy recommendations based on data analysis for further exploitation and transfer by policy makers on e-Inclusion, Adult Education and Digital Skills Agenda.

DCDS will be completely aligned to the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens – DigComp and will promote its adoption in Europe.

Who are the partners?

ALL DIGITAL, Belgium (project coordinator)
Hellenic Open University (HOU), DAISSy Research Group, Greece – ALL DIGITAL Member
Centro Studi Foligno (CSF), Italy – ALL DIGITAL Member
Associazione Emiliano-Romagnola Centri Autonomi di Formazione (AECA), Italy
Fundación ESPLAI, Spain – ALL DIGITAL Member
LIKTA, Latvia – ALL DIGITAL Member
EOS Foundation, Romania – ALL DIGITAL Member
European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA), Belgium

We wish all partners best of luck and look forward to learning about the project progress!

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DCDS – Digital Competences Development System

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:29:25 +0000

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 and training in a lifelong learning perspective. Around a quarter of the European adult population struggles with reading and writing and has poor numeracy and digital skills. Adults who do not possess a sufficient level of such skills face a high risk of social exclusion.

In this context, the Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) project aimed at establishing a framework that provided the low-skilled adult European population with the basic digital and transversal competences needed for employment, personal development, social inclusion and active citizenship.

To achieve this aim, the project developed an open, innovative multilingual Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) and used it to provide non-formal training to low-skilled adults in different European countries.

PROJECT OUTPUTS

The Digital Competences Development Methodology (DCDM) for the development of digital competences and related transversal skills of adults.
The online Digital Competences Development Environment (DCDE) consisting of the following modules:
- Self-assessment tool that allows adults identify gaps in basic digital competences;
- Recommender tool that enables trainees to identify the training offers that best match their needs;
- Online tools for the management of trainees’ profiles and the definition of flexible learning pathways that combine training modules;
- Online learning application with gamification features;
- Multilingual digital Open Educational Resources;
- Validation and certification of digital and transversal competences.
Personalised blended non-formal training composed by training modules to meet individual learning needs, which combine online learning with face-to-face support sessions by e-facilitators.
Handbooks and course guides for implementing the methodology to assist the trainers and the training providers in planning and delivering flexible and modular training offers.
Policy Influence Toolkit for training providers and policy recommendations based on data analysis for further exploitation and transfer by policy makers on e-Inclusion, Adult Education and Digital Skills Agenda.

DCDS was completely aligned to the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens – DigComp and promoted its adoption in Europe.

PARTNERS

ALL DIGITAL, Belgium – Coordinator
Hellenic Open University (HOU), DAISSy Research Group– Greece – ALL DIGITAL Member
Centro Studi Foligno (CSF), Italy – ALL DIGITAL Member
Associazione Emiliano-Romagnola Centri Autonomi di Formazione (AECA), Italy
Fundación ESPLAI, Spain – ALL DIGITAL Member
LIKTA, Latvia – ALL DIGITAL Member
EOS Foundation– Romania – ALL DIGITAL Member
European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA), Belgium

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Piloting of an assessment instrument for digital competence for foundation and intermediate levels

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:15:58 +0000

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 what digital skills are. We believe that DigComp can respond to this challenge and support our members, and other organisations striving to provide digital skills to everyone.

We started to endorse and emphasize the importance of DigComp in 2014. We developed the first Guidelines on the Adoption of DigComp (published on December 2015) at national level for our member organisations, we have been involved in the consultations and events organised by the European Commission and JRC regarding DigComp.

Thus, in September 2017, we were very happy to respond to JRC’s call for tenders to validate and pilot a self-assessment instrument developed by JRC and targeted at individuals with no or low level of digital skills. The assessment instrument was based on the latest version of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens 2.1.

The objective of this project was to test the reliability and validity of this assessment instrument among experts and a small and then a large-scale sample of individuals, to refine and reduce it in length (from 126 to 63 items) in order to establish a sound, reliable and valid assessment tool, based on DigComp 2.1.

ALL DIGITAL has done the following activities:

Validated the assessment tool through a panel of 10 external experts.
Validated the assessment tool through a small quantitative and qualitative pilot with 50 individuals (10 per country) in 5 countries: Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, Malta and the UK.
Investigated the reliability of the item bank by performing a psychometric analysis.
Refined the initial item bank by improving its validity and reliability and reducing its length from 126 to 63 items.
Piloted the refined assessment tool with a country-representative sample of 450 individuals (150 per country) with no and low digital skills in Bulgaria, Germany, and Latvia.
Performed a psychometric analysis on reliability and published a report on lessons learned.

PARTNERS

Digital Opportunities Foundation, Germany – ALL DIGITAL member
Global Libraries , Bulgaria – ALL DIGITAL Member
LIKTA, Latvia – ALL DIGITAL Member
Malta Communications Authority (MCA) , Malta – ALL DIGITAL Member
YouRock Online Ltd, UK

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#pathways4employ partners meet in Dublin

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:34:59 +0000

#pathways4employ partners met in Dublin on 18-19 October for the 3^rd 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 in hands-on ICT skills required by the labour market. They work in close collaboration with ICT industry, and most Irish-based tech companies sit on their Board.

Halfway through the pathways4employ project, we have already achieved a lot. We surveyed more than 100 entrepreneurs and virtual office workers to find out what digital skills they need to succeed. We analysed those according to the DigComp Framework, and, based on this evidence, we created the digital competence profiles for entrepreneur and virtual office workers – the ideal combination of digital competences that anyone who wants to become entrepreneur or to work from distance should have.

Our lead partner Tecnalia had already started developing our online platform and assessment tools (online tests) and all other partners were excited to see the first version! The platform has a great look and feel, but there’s still a lot of work ahead of us before we reach our goal – develop online assessment tools tailored to entrepreneurs and virtual office workers to help them see where they stand with regard to the “ideal” competence profile. We kicked-off this phase of the work with a productive brainstorming session.

We want to test digital competences against scenarios coming from the real workplace. So, to design the questions for the tests (or as we call them in technical jargon “assessment items”) we thought about actual everyday situations, which entrepreneurs and virtual office workers will inevitably encounter, such as registering their company, organising an online meeting and connecting to safe wireless networks. Questions in the test will be knowledge based and will include multiple choice questions, but also practical tasks that the user will have to perform according to the instructions, such as downloading and working in an excel file or creating a document in google docs.

In the following months, we will work to develop the assessment items in detail. We will have one test per competence area:

Information and data literacy;
Communication and collaboration;
Digital content creation;
Safety and problem solving

(see DigComp 2.1 for more info on the 5 competence areas).

Each test will be of approx. 20 min, and users will be able to take the tests one at a time. With this, we aim to avoid lengthy tests of several hours where the results are affected because the user got tired of the test and wants to get to the end faster.

After taking the test, the users (entrepreneurs and virtual office workers) will know, which digital skills of the “ideal” competence profile they possess and where they need to improve. This will fill a huge gap in today’s labour market. Many people today admit that are afraid they might lose their job or that they will not be competitive on the market because they are not up-to-date with technology. But at the same time, they don’t know what they need to learn to be up-to-date, and moreover, what skills are needed for their specific job.

We are expecting the first version of the platform and the assessment tools to be launched in February 2018. Then we will pilot it is with the users and improve. The assessment tools will be available in English, Latvian, Greek and Spanish. We will keep you posted on our progress!

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Future of DigComp (Telecentre-Europe’s position paper)

Andrea Bedorin — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:25:03 +0000

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 Action Plan should include and how to implement it!

So, we put our heads together with three other associations – CEPIS, ECDL Foundation and the European e-Skills Association – to encourage the European Commission to:

promote DigComp as the reference for learning, teaching, assessment and certification of digital skills to be used by most digital skills training providers, similarly to how the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF)
provide clear guidelines to national bodies (Ministries of Education, Labour or Welfare as well as State employment agencies)
support awareness-raising campaign(s) at EU and national level
foresee targeted financial support in European programmes for organizations to align their competence development solutions to the framework, run pilot projects or raise awareness
establish and support a coordination/secretariat body for the implementation of DigComp

You can read the position paper here.

Three years ago, we argued that DigComp should be used for digital skills for employability for non-ICT professionals. The recommendations we made then were followed and DigComp 2.0 takes this into account. Now we are hoping to see organisations providing trainings and certifications in digital skills reference their programmes to the framework, so that they become internationally recognised.

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Pathways4employ kicks off in Bilbao!

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:57:45 +0000

We are starting a new exciting project called Pathways4employ! It’s about digital skills, entrepreneurship, DigComp and employment, all at once.

What are we going to do?

We will identify what digital skills people need if they want to become entrepreneurs or to work remotely in today’s digital economy and society. Sure thing, this depends on the field in which they want to work – digital entrepreneurs need more digital skills than agriculture entrepreneurs. And people working remotely – we call them virtual office workers – for an IT company should possess ICT skills on the higher end of the spectrum.

But at the same time all entrepreneurs and all virtual office workers need to have a number of digital skills that are specific and indispensable to survive in their role, whatever the field. An example – all of them have to: use online collaboration tools; protect their online safety; manage their time efficiently with the help of online time management tools, etc. etc.

So our aim is to find exactly those indispensable skills that everybody needs. Not an easy task, is it?

But we will not stop there! We will then develop competence profiles (pathways) to guide those people to their goal of becoming entrepreneur or virtual office worker (be employed). Hence, the title of the project – Pathways4employ.

We will give them an assessment tool to check which of those indispensable skills they already have and will award them with badges, so that employers or partners can recognise them. This will happen on a trusted online platform where they will complete practical tasks and challenges, having fun and feeling more confident.

How are we going to do it?

First of all, we will step on the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) which will provide the common language and terminology to make sure that we are all talking about the same thing.

We are seven partners in this endeavour – the internationally known Spanish technological and research foundation Tecnalia, the Institute for Entrepreneurship Development from Greece, Latvian SIA Digital Media Group, Telecentre Europe and three of our member organisations – FIT ltd. from Ireland, and Spanish KZ Gunea and Guadalinfo from Basque country and Andalusia respectively. Why so many Spanish partners? Spain has a long history supporting public telecentres where anyone can go, use computers and the Internet for free and learn digital skills. Everyone in Spain knows what a telecentre is. Spain also has a solid track record in using DigComp. The Basque Government’s IKANOS project, our inspiration, is the most elaborated example of practical application of DigComp. It is a multi-faceted tool which includes a self-assessment test, a competence profile, a learning path and a certification. The self-assessment test can be used by anyone, while the competence profile defines the digital skills needed to working in the public field in Spain – from public administrators through teachers to doctors and social workers. We will build on this experience to develop the competence profiles and assessment tool for entrepreneurs and virtual office workers.

What’s next?

We are ambitious, but we will go one step at a time. So, the first stage of the project is to see what digital skills entrepreneurs and virtual office workers need. Partners already have a lot of experience in this, but we will also consult with other experts – trainers, representatives of companies and the entrepreneurs and virtual office workers themselves. If you want to contribute with your knowledge, please do not hesitate to drop an e-mail to Gabriela gabriela.ruseva@telecentre-europe.org. We will soon publish the online survey as well.

On the photo – Pathways4employ project partners

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DigComp workshop at DG EMPL

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:19:25 +0000

On 12^th 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 interest to actively engage in the process.

The Commission aimed to collect ideas from the participants on actions necessary for the future implementation and roll-out of the competence frameworks. The EC is currently developing an Action Plan for the implementation of the two frameworks and will set up an informal stakeholders’ support group. Telecentre Europe reminded that for the successful uptake of the frameworks, it is important that all stakeholders – governments, industry, educators and NGO – are informed, motivated and involved in the framework implementation.

There should be guidelines from the European Commission to national bodies (Ministries of Education, Ministries of Labour or Welfare, State Employment Agencies) recommending that training programs supervised by these bodies are linked to these frameworks.

Telecentre Europe expects that the Digital Competence Framework is integrated into the trainings and assessments/certifications of most training providers who teach digital skills, similarly to the language framework, which is used almost everywhere to show the level of language achieved.

Another proposal was to integrate the implementation of the frameworks in the action plans of the National Coalitions for Digital Jobs.

We will soon publish a position paper with all idea to provide input to the action plan currently designed by the Commission. Stay tuned for more info!

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PATHWAYS4EMPLOY

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:35:28 +0000

We have identified two interesting profiles for employment and digital competences offering opportunities in the coming years: entrepreneur and ‘virtual worker’. By virtual worker we understand anyone working remotely for more than 20% of their time.

90% of jobs in the near future will need digital skills at least at basic level, but entrepreneurs and virtual workers are particular profiles – they must rely on their own competences more than others. What are the digital competences needed to be autonomous, safe, productive, creative? How can we assess our knowledge and identify our gaps? Are we ready to be entrepreneurs and virtual workers in a digital age and to make the best of digital technologies?

PATHWAYS4EMPLOY was a project that wanted to define their competences profiles based on DigComp. Project was focusing on non-formal and informal education as we wanted to address people taking part in activities outside of formal education environment (i.e. people in volunteer services or people with a lack of formal education).

Our objective was to foster the assessment of digital competences by supporting the recognition and validation of skills and qualifications: taking the DigComp framework as reference to ensure that skills and qualifications can be more easily recognised across.

An assessment web tool was developed to assess and recognize the digital competences of people. We used Mozilla Open badges to give visibility to those competences, because they meet the needs of lifelong learners and people acquiring skills in non-formal and informal activities, for example, though volunteering. The patchwork way of learning is currently recognized meant that many of our abilities are unevenly recognized or not recognized at all. There are skills, abilities and knowledge acquired outside classroom walls that lack the necessary credentials.

The project contributed to defining the recognition pathways and how to display expertise and abilities gained in ways that employers find relevant. We did this by developing a web assessment tool that allowed users to assess their digital competences aligned with the DigComp framework, implementing a digital competence portfolio. The platform provided a self-assessment tool that will present an initial digital competences portfolio. Then users were able to assess their digital competences of the profile selected using the assessment tool updating.

PROJECT INTELECTUAL OUTPUTS

1. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPEN BADGES ECOSYSTEM
– Public report of Research on good practices establishing Open Badges Ecosystems;
– PATHWAYSFOREMPLOY Open Badges Ecosystem;
– Recognition Pathways Design.

2. PRODUCTION OF ONLINE PATHWAYS4EMPLOY PLATFORM – e-assessment and acreditation platform

3. ASSESSMENT MODULES DESIGN
– Entrepreneur assessment module
– ‘Virtual office worker’ assessment module

PARTNERS

TECNALIA Research and Innovation, Spain – Coordinator
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED), Greece
ALL DIGITAL (formerly Telecentre Europe), Belgium
FIT, Ireland
KZgunea, Spain
CONSORCIO FERNANDO DE LOS RÍOS, Spain
SIA DMG, Latvia

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Guidelines on the adoption of DigComp

Andrea Bedorin — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:18:28 +0000

The guidelines present the examples of use of DigComp and propose recommendations on a better training alignment with DigComp as well as designing new assessment tools for end users.

Digital competence is one of the eight key competences for lifelong learning identified by the European Union. This competence is becoming necessary for a satisfactory and safe daily life, for active citizenship and employability. Until recently, there was no common understanding of what these skills, knowledge and attitudes are. A multitude of learning opportunities of ICT skills for citizens, typically focused on enabling them to use specific computer applications and online services, exist in formal, non-formal and informal settings in Europe. Most of them however do not reflect a sound and shared view of digital competence.

To address this problem and create a common language between the worlds of education and labour market, the European Commission developed and published in 2013 what is now known as the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, henceforth DigComp.

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Digital competences to promote employability

Andrea Bedorin — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 11:13:23 +0000

Translated by Gabriel Rissola

Different digital competence models were discussed during the workshop organised by Guadalinfo, the Andalusian network of telecentres, last 29 October 2015 in Seville. The Guadalinfo Network brought together more than thirty experts working in the field of training and certification of digital skills, where aside to the Andalusian model, other experiences like those from Catalonia and Basque Country were shared.

The acquisition of these skills promotes professional development and access to best jobs, but also enables, at advanced levels, self-employment and the identification of good strategies of active job employment in the new Digital Single Market.

The model presented by Guadalinfo offers a full itinerary that allows citizens to acquire digital skills that can improve their daily life and work. With this itinerary, the user knows what digital skills they need, where and how to acquire them and (forthcoming) a certification system for those who has them.

For its implementation, the Network counts with 800 professionals who will be initiated and trained in the European Framework of Digital Skills Framework (DIGCOMP); a training catalog based on the needs and interests of users; a tool for self-assessment of own digital skills, which will enable each person to know their starting point for a personalized training path; multi-format training content for technology training of users, and a training platform for the development of e-learning programs.

During the workday, different experts have analyzed the status of regulation and planning in the field of digital skills set by the European Digital Agenda 2020 in Spain and also abroad, thanks to the participation of Telecentre Europe network.

The participation of the Association of Spanish Telecentres is framed within the e-Skills for Jobs campaign that aims to inform students, young professionals and SMEs about the vast range of opportunities offered by ICT-related jobs.

Source: http://comunidaddetelecentros.net/competencias-digitales-para-el-fomento-de-la-empleabilidad/

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Skillage report 2012-2015

Andrea Bedorin — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:40:35 +0000

Skillage.eu is an online assessment tool that helps young people to understand the more sophisticated ICT skills they need for the job market.

Telecentre Europe regularly carries out an analysis of the data provided in Skillage, with the aim of providing an evidence base on young Europeans’ digital skills. The conclusions of the analysis will help mobilise the efforts of telecentres around Europe to tackle youth unemployment in the most underprivileged areas and to raise awareness about digital competences and their importance for the labour market.

The report analyses participation results and the average scores obtained by participants between 2012 and 2015. In addition, for 2015 it provides an in-depth analysis with the socio-demographic variables. Following the analysis, specific calls-to-action and policy recommendations are proposed as well.

Policy recommendations are:

to raise awareness among female youngsters and employers about the fact that girls and women are well prepared to work in jobs requiring digital competence
specific digital competence education and training should be already introduced at school age and aligned with labour market needs
to reinforce digital skills education and training for employability at high school, vocational training, university and non-formal training for youngsters (ICT training centres, telecentres, etc.).

Infographic summarising the report is available HERE.

European Commission has included Skillage as an example of implementation of the Digital Comptence Framework for citizens: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcomp/implementation

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How to validate digital competences acquired outside formal education?

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:30:12 +0000

by Gabriela Ruseva

There are hundreds of thousands of ICT centres, libraries and NGOs where people can learn digital skills. Many get interested in ICT and go on to follow a university course. For others, their new digital skills help them find a job. But are the skills acquired through these types of training formally recognized? Do they count for employers and universities and how do people prove them? With a university diploma, we can prove our skills. But what happens when we learn at a non-formal training centre or through volunteering?

These were some of the questions discussed at the Policy debate on validation of non-formal education, organized by EUCIS-LLL and the European Youth Forum on 9^th July in Brussels. Validation is a hot topic in the youth field, especially in the context of youth volunteerism and activism and many of the participants were from youth organisations. Telecentre Europe participated at the event to raise the question of validation and recognition of digital skills.

What does validation mean?

EC representative Koen Nomden (Skills Unit) spoke about EU initiatives, namely the Council Recommendations on validation of non-formal learning outcomes. The Recommendations ask Member States to set national validation frameworks for non-formal learning before 2018. The main objective of validation is to “enable individuals to obtain qualification on the basis of validating their experience”. There are four steps in validation: identification, documentation, assessment and certification.

Where are digital skills in all that?

Digital skills, such as language skills, are considered horizontal skills. They do not lead to a specific qualification and occupation. Therefore, they are not validated against the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) through the same formal procedure applied for example for a chef who has cooking skills and who can get his skills tested and receive a formal diploma without going to a professional school.

For digital skills and language skills the EU has developed self-assessment tools, that everyone can use to document their skills. There are two reference frameworks for digital skills – the European Digital Competence Framework DIGCOMP (for users) and the e-Competence framework e-CF (for ICT professionals). Telecentre Europe argues that both frameworks can be related to EQF with DIGCOMP validating skills until level 5 and e-CF between levels 6-8.

As a formal member of EUCIS-LLL since June this year, Telecentre Europe has also become a member of their Validation task force, where issues like this are discussed with other pan-European networks and policy recommendations are channeled to the European Commission.

The GR-EAT project

An interesting project presented during the debate was the GR-EAT Project where partners conducted a survey among employers on competences, acquired by young people through volunteering, they recognise. Digital competences were among the last seen by employers as a consequence of volunteering, way below intercultural skills for example. This is an interesting phenomenon because apparently employers do not realise (yet) that digital skills can be acquired through volunteering: they still see them as more specialised skills that need to be studied formally. On the contrary, Telecentre Europe has many examples of young people volunteering to teach older people or younger kids ICT and thus improving their own ICT skills.

Conclusions and EC future plans

At the end of the debate the EC representative summarized EC future plans:

The Recommendation on the European Qualification Framework (EQF) will be updated soon. Telecentre Europe will follow the process and advocate to link formal validation with the recognition of digital skills and refer DIGCOMP
The EU tools for documenting skills will be modernised and a digital skills portfolio will become part of the EUROPASS documents
The EU skills agenda, to be developed early 2016, will be linked to migration as the validation of skills of third country nationals and will become increasingly important.

For more information on the debate, see EUCIS-LLL report.

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Digital competence and employability (Telecentre-Europe’s policy position)

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:28:21 +0000

A recognition of competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning

In this policy position paper Telecentre Europe argues the need for a common European framework (DIGCOMP) that allows a shared understanding of the meaning and implications of digital competence and that presents its components and levels of proficiency, similar to the Common Reference Framework for languages.

Such an adoption might ease the comparability across Europe and the alignment and harmonisation of training offers, many of which will be undertaken by non-formal and informal instances, such as telecentres and libraries. The existing three European frameworks have been developed recently at the request of the European Commission that touch upon digital competence – the eCompetence Framework for ICT professionals; the eCompetence framework for end users; the DIGCOMP framework.

Telecentre Europe suggests that – in the case of non-ICT professionals – the DIGCOMP framework is used as it considers and develops the transversal component of digital competence that are necessary for a variety of job profiles. The eCF for end users can be used to complement the DIGCOMP frame as it covers some aspects of digital competence in a more granular way and allows for measurements and certifications which are already developed and adopted. The eCF for ICT professionals shall then be used in the context of ICT-related jobs.

To download our full policy paper on this topic click here

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One hundred use the Skillage tool at Online Educa in Berlin

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:07:39 +0000

December 4 to 6^th, 2013

Telecentre-Europe was present earlier this month at Online Educa in Berlin – the largest global conference on technology supported learning and training. The participation of Telecentre-Europe was twofold: to present Skillage, its online tool that helps users quickly assess their digital skills, and to disseminate its current Life-Long Learning project titled M4ALL, dealing with game-based learning in special education.

In its 19th year, Online Educa gathered more than 2000 delegates from 90 countries, making it a significant learning experience in itself for the delegates that saw a wide range of international practices, research, projects and platforms. The conference featured six main themes, with the Skillage presentation within the Combining Creativity, Innovation and Skills to Increase Inclusion and Employability theme and led by Telecentre-Europe’s Operations and Campaigns Manager Laurentiu Bunescu.

Throughout the event around one hundred participants took the Skillage assessment test. In fact, Skillage is much more than an assessment of the person’s digital skills: it teaches young Europeans- who are its main target audience- which digital skills are important to have in most work environments today. The tool is therefore very timely: with recent youth unemployment and the rising need of digital skills, it seems that it the next 5 years 90% of new jobs will require digital skills.

Today Skillage is aligned to the DIGCOMP – A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in Europe, and it can be used for multiple purposes, some being listed below:

High-school students preparing for informal ICT training
University students preparing for jobs
Young people wishing to test their skills before ICT training
First level assessment for young people with basic digital skills aspiring for ICT careers

>> View here the Skillage presentation.

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23.03 MyDigiSkills

Andrea Bedorin — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 08:09:41 +0000

The event is organised within the All Digital Week 2021 campaign.

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MyDigiSkills is a new tool to help users understand their Digital Competences. It is based on the work done in the DigCompSAT project, as delivered by ALL DIGITAL for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2020. The tool will be launched in advance of All Digital Week in 2021, and the webinar will raise awareness about its use, value and benefit to users.

The webinar helps delegates understand the new MyDigiSkills.eu platform. It covers its history of development and provide in-depth coverage on how it works, its target audience, and uses.

PROGRAMME

Moderator – Ian Clifford, ALL DIGITAL

(The hyperlinked times refer to the video)

See the presentations from the event (all in one file)

13:00-13:40	00:00:39 Welcome from ALL DIGITAL. Peter Palvolgyi, CEO of ALL DIGITAL History and background 00:06:35 The DigCompSat project – Ian Clifford 00:10:58 The Item Bank – Stefano Kluzer 00:31:21 Statistical Analysis – Mara Jakobsone
13:40-13:45	00:44:43 From DigCompSAT to MyDigiSkills – Antonio Roman Casas, AUPEX
13:45-14:10	00:49:50 Overview of the MyDigiSkills system: rationale, aim, benefits. Walkthrough of the system – Ian Clifford Languages Registration Data held The Item Bank Report Counter
14:10-14:25	Suggested models for use 01:08:25 Suggested models for use from Spain – Gema Parrado Leon, AUPEX 01:10:20 Questions and Answers 01:17:50 Suggested models for use from Latvia – Mara Jakobsone, LIKTA 01:20:55 Suggested models for use from Italy – Stefano Kluzer 01:23:10 What’s next?
14:25-14:30	01:25:45 All Digital Week – Ekaterina Clifford, ALL DIGITAL

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Basic digital skills for inclusion and active citizenship of low-skilled adults

Andrea Bedorin — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:17:48 +0000

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 education, in leisure time activities, in sports, etc.). Yet, according to Eurostat, 43% of Europeans do not have basic digital skills. But do we know what this really means? Who are these 43%, and what are those basic skills?

The Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) for citizens has been around for some time now, trying to define and explain the skills needed by all citizens to function in the digital society, but it is surprisingly little known to politicians and other stakeholders beyond the digital education field.

We believe that providing adults with a personalised training based on their specific needs is an effective way to foster their digital skills and bring them at least to a basic level that would allow them to use online services, express their opinion and access reliable and diversified information. Improving their digital skills will thus empower them to play an active role in society, access and progress in the labour market, and engage in further education and training in a lifelong learning perspective.

To this extent, the workshop will aim to empower policymakers and key stakeholders from different fields (formal and non-formal education, social inclusion, employment, digital economy and society) to formulate integrated policies for developing and recognising adult citizens’ basic digital competences.

During the workshop ALL DIGITAL and EAEA will present Policy Recommendations on digital skills training of low-skilled adults developed within the Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) Project.

Registration for the event is mandatory. PLEASE REGISTER HERE

AGENDA

15:30	Registration and welcome coffee
16:00	Welcome words by the moderator (policy context and purpose of the event)
16:10	Panel discussion on the links between basic digital skills and active citizenship with policymakers and adult education practitioners + Q&A Julie Fonda, European Commission – Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (EMPL),Unit E.2 – Skills and Qualifications Anusca Ferrari, European Commission – Directorate-General Education and Culture (EAC), Unit C1 – Innovation and EIT Daniel Bonvoisin, Responsable de l’éducation permanente, Media Animation Philippe Seidel Leroy, Policy and EP Liaison Officer, AGE Platform Europe
17:00	The digital competences development system as a comprehensive system for digital skills training and validation – lessons learned and policy recommendations, followed by debate with the audience Peter Palvolgyi, ALL DIGITAL Francesca Operti, EAEA
17:45	Final remarks
18:00	Networking cocktail

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Towards a European certification framework of digital skills

Andrea Bedorin — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:26:19 +0000

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 the establishment of digital skills training practice, accreditation and certification framework that is acceptable and applicable at European level and to facilitate mobility of digital workers across Europe. Already several schemes that support training and accreditation of digital skills at local and national levels exist, with varying degrees of success. An important gap has been identified between those schemes and the European digital (and other) skills frameworks promoted by EU (namely #DigComp, #EntrComp, DigComp for Edu etc.).

The purpose of the session is manifold: identify the gaps, present good practices, discuss on cultural and other issues that affect Europe-wide acceptance of frameworks, propose a strategy towards the establishment of a European certification framework of digital skills. The proposers believe that this discussion is timely (if not late) and that the context of ICT2018 is the most appropriate, because most stakeholders of digital technology and society will be present.

With the support of the European Commission, we we would like to develop an open, innovative multilingual Digital Competences Development System (#DCDS) and use it to provide non-formal training to low-skilled adults in different European countries.

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DIGCOMP Archives • All Digital

Join DigComp Community of Practice (CoP)

Invitation to Join

12 working groups and 400 members in the DigComp community of practice

MyDigiSkills – a new tool to self-reflect on your digital competence level

Consultation on the Feasibility Study for a European Digital Competence Certificate

DigCompSAT Report is out!

DigCompSAT Report

Policy Recommendations and Policy Influence Kit from DCDS project

ALL DIGITAL Newsletter September 2019

>> See ourSeptember issue online

DigCompSAT

THE IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL SKILLS FOR LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED ADULTS

Digital SkillShift project launches

The Digital Competences Development Methodology (DCDM)

Contents of the self-assessment tool (DCDS)

Context Analysis Report for Digital Competences Development System

Context Analysis Report for Digital Competences Development System

Designing the system to develop digital competences of adults with low digital skills

Pathways4Employ Self-Assessment Tool

Developing digital competences – views of experts and low-skilled adults

Check your digital competences and help test the e-assessment tool!

PATHWAYS4EMPLOY ONLINE ASSESSMENT TOOL COMING SOON

… or What happened at the 4th partners’ meeting in Riga

Digital Competences Development System (DCDS) project launched in Brussels

DCDS – Digital Competences Development System

Piloting of an assessment instrument for digital competence for foundation and intermediate levels

#pathways4employ partners meet in Dublin

Future of DigComp (Telecentre-Europe’s position paper)

You can read the position paper here.

Pathways4employ kicks off in Bilbao!

What are we going to do?

How are we going to do it?

What’s next?

DigComp workshop at DG EMPL

PATHWAYS4EMPLOY

Guidelines on the adoption of DigComp

Digital competences to promote employability

Skillage report 2012-2015

How to validate digital competences acquired outside formal education?

Digital competence and employability (Telecentre-Europe’s policy position)

One hundred use the Skillage tool at Online Educa in Berlin

23.03 MyDigiSkills

Basic digital skills for inclusion and active citizenship of low-skilled adults

Towards a European certification framework of digital skills

… or What happened at the 4^th partners’ meeting in Riga