This list offers an overview of good practices in digital skills by regional, national and European stakeholders. Explore successful approaches, upskilling initiatives and projects with a proven impact on bridging the digital skills gap that have the potential to be replicated in other countries and different contexts.
HackerStop: a Danish IT security tool
Make IT security a common concern, and not something employees are reminded about with HackerStop, the Danish initiative that kicked off in 2022 but has already reached more than 400 companies throughout the country.Latvia - Riga TechGirls
Riga TechGirls is a community created by women in the IT sector with the goal of educating and inspiring girls and women to pursue careers in IT.Social Warning - Italy
Social Warning is a project that brings the topic of digital awareness to schools through a network of young volunteer trainers, all professionals who work with digital technologies on a daily basis. The aim is not to alarm or reassure, but to inform.Accessia - Belgium
Accessia is an innovative springboard that aims to getting people with disabilities who have difficulty accessing employment into work and improving the digital accessibility of online services.ubbu - Portugal
ubbu is an educational platform designed to teach coding to children, aged 6 to 12, through game based lessons.StepByTech - Portugal
StepByTech is a free initiative within the programming domain, endorsed by the Lisbon City Council - Future of Work Lisbon, and assisted by Le Wagon Portugal. Its primary objective is to enhance future-oriented competencies required in the job market.Digital Education Transition Plan - Portugal
The Digital Education Transition Plan (DETP) allows teachers to use digital technologies with confidence, putting them at the service of education and training with increasing quality, promoting more interactive and innovative teaching-learning methods.Engineers for a day (Engenheiras por 1 dia) - Portugal
A Portuguese program to promote gender equality and equal access to engineering and technological courses for all.The Blue Ant Code - Spain
Context Learning to program at an early age is a vehicle for the development of 21st century cognitive and digital skills that must be acquired from an early age in order to adapt adequately to today's computerised society, such as ComputationalUpSkill
Transforming the ICT landscape in Portugal to bridge the skills gap in the labour force.