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.
A1 Senior Academy - Austria
An Austrian initiative for those over 60, who want to learn to navigate the digital world.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 ofCodeAbility – 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. TheThe MOOC platform iMoox - Austria
The iMooX platform is an online learning platform that offers Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Austria. It provides a scalable and accessible platform for individuals to access a variety of courses and subjects.eSquirrel – Digital Basic Education
ESquirrel’s Digital Basic Education course supports the promotion of digital skills. It makes it possible to search for knowledge acquired and to consolidate learning in a playful way, using squeezes and gaps in the relevant subject areas. The courseDigital Skills Accelerator
An EU-funded project to enhance the quality and development of students' digital skills.Digital Opportunity Traineeships
A good practice on EU level to support the availability of traineeships in the digital sector and offer an avenue for gaining experience abroad.