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.
Digital Skills Partner Community for Latvian Regions
The Digital Skills Community of Latvia’s regions was established at the start of 2022 with the aim of fostering digital competence across the country's regions. with the common objective of promoting the growth of society’s digital skills.“Smart Latvia” - Supporting SMEs' Digital Transformation
The European Union's Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) indicates that Latvia's digital development is considerably slower than that of its neighbouring countries, and also under the EU average. Improving this requires a coherent approach thatAnnual Latvian ICT prize “Platinum Mouse Award 2023”: Best e-Teacher
The annual Latvian ICT prize “ Platinum Mouse Award 2023” has been awarded since 2007. It aims to identify the most successful digital solutions created in Latvia, to assess the top project creators and developers, and to raise awareness of theIT Education Foundation in Latvia — Start(it)
The goals of the Foundation are to promote the IT sector among children as an option when choosing a future profession and to increase the number of youth, who study programming in-depth in primary schools, secondary schools and universities.DigiBEST - research and promotion of digital transformation for SMEs
Digital Transformation of Business Environment project (Digi BEST) is an initiative of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia to promote and support the competitiveness of SMEs and to offer solutions for the digital transformation of SMEs in European rural areas.EU Code Week
Bringing coding and digital literacy closer to children and adults in Europe.Digital 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.