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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Cyber Skills - Ireland
Cyber Skills offers online, part-time courses co-designed by industry and academia for working professionals, providing immediate, practical cybersecurity knowledge to enhance skills and meet sector demands.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.GEIGER - Cybersecurity Solution for Micro- and Small Enterprises
An EU-funded project helping Europe's MSE's protect themselves against cyber incidents.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.CodeAbility – Digitally supported programming at universities
High quality coding training is an essential core area of digital skills. However, adequate communication is a major challenge due to the multiplicity of students, their heterogeneous prior knowledge of programming and a shortage of teachers. Theacodemy: Learning coding for children
The coding school acodemy provides programming courses for children and young people in the form of video courses and holiday camps. This involves programming in a playful and age-appropriate way. This promotes the digital skills and problem-solvingSaferinternet.at- Austria
About the project Saferinternet.at is an initiative implemented by the European Union under the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). The aim of the initiative is to help children and young people, parents and teachers, in particular, to use digital mediaEuropean Cyber Security Month (ECSM)
An EU institutional initiative that promotes the sharing of good practices in cybersecurity and brings together a variety of stakeholders in an annual campaign.Secure Hospitals EU
Upskilling courses and programmes on cybersecurity for professionals in the healthcare sector.Digital 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.