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The European Digital Skills Awards 2024

Are you ready to showcase your digital skills project?

 

With a dynamic landscape of digital skills initiatives spanning across Europe, the European Digital Skills Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions of projects and organizations dedicated to empowering individuals with essential digital competencies. From private-public partnerships to grassroots endeavors, each of the finalist and winning projects will showcase innovative approaches to fostering digital literacy and inclusion. If you want to know more on the application procedures and the criteria for the evaluation of the applications, you can read the Rules and Regulations of the EDSA24.

European Digital Skills Awards: discover the winners of the 2024 edition

photo of the winners of EDSA24

The winners of the European Digital Skills Awards 2024 have been announced on 4 July during the Awards ceremony in Brussels. Five projects from around Europe bring back the trophy for best practices in the five awards categories.

The winners were selected from a list of 25 finalist applications by a jury composed of five experts: Anu Passi-Rauste (HeadAI), Aiga Irmeja (Latvian IT Cluster/Digital Innovation Hub), Andrei Kelemen (Cluj IT Cluster), Mads Ronald Dahl (MSc, PhD, MI, Special Consultant Aarhus University), Esther Murphy, (DigiAcademy and Digi-ID programme Trinity College Dublin: School of Engineering). Read more about the Awards Jury!

During the EDSA24 Awards ceremony, Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak, Head of Unit 'Interactive technologies, Digital for Culture and Education’, DG CNECT, European Commission, handed out the awards to 5 outstanding projects that are successfully supporting Europeans in getting the fundamental and advanced digital skills they need. 

This year's winners represent a lively and varied combination of projects and organisations, showing the exciting progress on digital skills across Europe. The winners include everything from public-private partnerships to local grassroots efforts, as well as citizen groups, local schools, and EU consortia of top technical universities. Discover more about the winners!

“I’m so impressed by the passion and dedication of the people behind these inspiring initiatives in digital education, workforce training, and innovation, which are crucial in closing the digital skills gap and ensuring a prosperous digital future for all Europeans.”
Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak, Head of Unit, DG CNECT, European Commission

The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform of the European Commission extends its heartfelt thanks to all 267 projects, organisations and initiatives that applied this year. The dedication to advancing digital skills across Europe is truly commendable. Each application showcased innovation, commitment, and a profound impact on our communities. Together, we can celebrate your achievements and look forward to seeing the continued impact of your work across our continent. Thank you for the inspiring contributions to the European digital landscape!

Past editions winners

The European Digital Skills Awards were organised for the first time in 2016 and were followed by two more editions, in 2017 and 2018. The National Coalition for Skills and Jobs has organised the prestigious event until this year's edition: in 2023 the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform is running the awards, always in collaboration with the European Commission and the National Coalitions for Skills and Jobs all around Europe. 

To find out more about the previous editions and the winning projects, we have compiled the list of projects and initiatives that have been awarded the prestigious Award. Some of the projects -most in fact- are still running and continue to produce an impact, empowering Europeans of all ages and walks of life to acquire digital skills, while some projects are not active anymore.