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.
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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.DiversIT Charter
The DiversIT Charter is a 3-tier certification aimed at reducing gender disparity in IT roles. It serves as both a recognition of a company’s efforts in advancing gender equality in tech, and as inspiration for further diversity and inclusion policies.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.Google Professional Certificate Program - APDC Portugal
The aim of the Portuguese initiative is to fast-forward training and the development of digital skills, and thereby bridge the digital skills gap.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.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.Open the Box - Italy
Open the Box is a media and data literacy initiative for teachers and educators, promoting a scalable, measurable and effective educational format for tackling online disinformation through training, educational kits, and online challenges.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 ComputationalDigital Economy and Society Index (DESI)
DESI is a composite index that summarises relevant indicators on Europe's digital performance and tracks EU Member States' progress.