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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Digital education and inclusion: the SAID project
The Erasmus+ project SAID (School Assistance – Inclusive & Digital School Assistance for Digital Education) aims to promote the digital skills of people with disabilities and learning difficulties.DigiLernSicher: Digital acquisition of security know-how
More than learning The main focus of the project is the provision of basic digital skills for apprentices in electrical engineering through a specially developed VR app. During design fiction workshops involving trainers and apprentices, VR learningGEIGER - Cybersecurity Solution for Micro- and Small Enterprises
An EU-funded project helping Europe's MSE's protect themselves against cyber incidents.DigiLernSicher: Digital learning of safety-related knowledge and associated behaviours
DigiLernsicher is a nationally funded project in Austria aiming at introducing extended reality technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR), into vocational education and training. The project's primary focus lies in empowering electrician apprentices with essential digital skills using a specially developed VR apps. By conducting design fiction workshops involving trainers and trainees, VR learning scenarios were identified.Girls Go Circular
Girls Go Circular offers an online learning platform that offers young girls the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the circular economy while acquiring digital competenciesYouth Work HD - Lithuania
Youth Work HD the first European online learning platform for the professional development of youth workers that gathers all in one place.Austria - digitaleberufe.at Career Guidance Platform
The platform digitalberufe.at provides information and orientation about digital professions and contains a wide range of job profiles as well as a multimedia insight into the world of digital professions and its future.Digital Pioneers - Austria
The Digital Pioneers Programme offers young women insights into digital and technical professions to encourage them to start a career in STEM fields.Digital Pioneers
As part of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), the 2021 Women in Digital Scoreboard shows that there is still a gender gap in specialised digital skills. Only about 19 % of ICT specialists and just over a third of female STEM graduates inDigComp-CERT – Certificate for Digital Competences in Austria
The DigComp-CERT is a certificate to prove digital competence that was developed based on the Digital Competence Framework for Austria – DigComp 2.2 AT. The DigComp-CERT indicates, in the sense of an up-to-date digital competence profile, in which competence area and at which competence level a person's digital competences can be classified. It serves to make all existing digital competences of people in Austria visible and have them as evidence in professional and everyday life.