All Digital Week - Lithuania

All Digital Weeks is one of the key EU-wide awareness-raising campaigns on digital skills that engaged the citizens of around 20 countries in Europe through various national activities taking place in participating countries. In Lithuania, the campaign from 2019 to 2022 was organised under the flag of the 'Connected Lithuania' project, an initiative whose goal was to raise the skills and competences of everyone in Lithuania. All Digital Weeks usually takes place over three weeks in March, with the aim of introducing people to ICT opportunities, their potential, and the importance of digital competence in all sectors. 

Digital Week events take place in around 20 countries in many locations: Digital Competence Centres, libraries, schools, community centres and others, bringing together a large team of partners since the start of the campaign in 2010. Each year, All Digital Weeks gets more than 50.000 participants together. In Lithuania, during the 2019-2022 edition of the project, a big focus of All Digital Weeks was on good practices in digital skills in education that could be used and replicated by schools, institutions, libraries, teachers and educators, to support their individual activities. 

Why do we need a digital week in Europe?

According to the Digital Economy and Society Indicators (DESI) report, the survey results on fake news and disinformation online, the survey results on the impact of digitalisation and automation on everyday life, digital skills may be the way forward, but Europe still has quite a bit to go. Close to half of EU citizens (43%) do not have sufficient digital skills - and therefore may miss out on growing employment opportunities. Another 35% of people in the EU lack even basic digital skills - and 13% of Europeans are still not using the Internet. 

A growing number of EU citizens (29%) are sceptical in their ability to recognise disinformation. And concerns about automation also run high, with 72% of Europeans worried that a robot may replace their livelihood. 

The Lithuanian experience: zooming on results

As a general rule, the topics of the Digital Week campaign revolve around several competence areas all linked to digital skills: media literacy, the development of critical thinking, digital literacy, safe online behaviors, and promoting digital skills for digital jobs.  

In Lithuania, the Digital Weeks were organised from 2019 to 2022 under the framework of the national ‘Connected Lithuania’ project. This resource archive documents how the campaigns took place over those three years and what the engagement was.

Digital skills resources for teachers and educators in Lithuania

The following materials were developed for teachers, schools, school administrators, VET teachers and trainers and educators in general, and remain available as an archived resource. They document good practices in increasing learners' digital skills as well in integrating digital technologies in teaching and learning. Materials include: video recordings from lessons, discussions, self-assessment tests, and materials adapted from previous educational activities.