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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A1 Senior Academy - Austria
An Austrian initiative for those over 60, who want to learn to navigate the digital world.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.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.Supermums
Since 2016, Supermum has helped over 700 mums and dads, across 10+ different countries, to start out on their Salesforce careers or looking for their next step in journey by learning, upskilling or retraining in Salesforce Admin, Marketing Cloud and Consultancy Skills.Meet and Code
Meet and Code provides financial support and resources for non-profits to support events that introduce children and young people to technology and coding. These events intend to show the fun elements of coding and how it brings innovation to life. This practice is specially aligned with EU Code Week.Career Guidance Platform Digital Professions.at
Digital professions are an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, the Internet offensive Austria and whatchado GmbH, which created an orientation platform for digital professions that informs about the full breadth ofRails Girls - Bulgaria
Rails girls is a two-day free workshop that targets women with little to no experience in the field of programming and technology. The goals of the program are to expose as many women as possible into a largely male-dominated industries. The projectOdigO Project - Lapland (Finland)
The Skillful Tutors of Adults’ and Aging Population’s Digital Competences to Lapland (OdigO) Project promotes media literacy for all in Finland, with a focus on seniors.DISC – Digital Skills for Integration and Active Citizenship
The DISC project involves 5 partners from Finland, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Slovenia in offering digital skills training for people from migrant backgrounds.Seniors as Digital Learners - Finland
How do seniors learn digital skills in the Nordic and Baltic countries? The Nordplus project explores best practices in 4 EU countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway and Lithuania.