Digital Competences Framework in Practice Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Competences Framework in Practice

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Digital competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union and it involves the confident and critical use of information society technology (IST) and thus basic skills in information and communication technology (ICT).
As a consequence, the project main objectives and expected results were:
– To create a Process of Revision of the existing Framework for Developing and understanding Digital Competences in Europe and an analysis, adaptation and updating of the required digital competence (DC) for the following profiles: Teachers/trainers and users/learners in Communication and social marketing, Digital Touristic management and Digital Tour Guide.
-To create a specific Digital Competence Grid and a Self-Assessment grid for all these profiles as the prior step to create useful training materials for teachers in these areas and users/learners in order to be a master in these competences. (Validation and recognition).
-Creation of a specific framework identifying, for each profile, all the required digital competences, and provide for each competence a description, descriptors, examples of levels, attitudes, skills and examples of applicability in different contexts and different purposes.
-Designing of an innovative educational portal, a e-Learning Training Web Centre to organise and to test the training materials of the two on-line expected Digital Competences courses (one for trainers/teachers [O3] and another to learners [O4], On-line courses would be attended by 48 trainers/teachers and 120 learners.
-To create a Methodological guide Handbook stating the on-line training courses methodology, content, style, achieved results (Digital Competences improvements and learners outputs) and mode.
-To create a Digital Competence Certification for the following profiles: experts in communication and social marketing, Digital Touristic management and Digital Tour Guide experts. The Certificate will represent the competences and learning outcomes and will serve as the basic document for recognition and transparency
There were different target Groups and expected impacts.
On the one hand Teachers/Trainers in Communication and social marketing, teachers/Trainers in Digital Touristic management, Digital Tour Guide teachers/trainers and on the other hand Learners/Technicians in Communication and social marketing, learners/Technicians in Digital Touristic management and Learners/Technicians to be Digital Tour Guide.

The expected impact on the target groups were to train and to show these trainers and teachers which are the minimum required digital competences that learners in Communication and social marketing, Digital Touristic management and Digital Tour Guide may have.
Also, they were required to attend to an on line Training Course to be trained on the identified and required digital key skills of these working profiles.
As the project tested non-formal DC training materials, it was of comparative interest to other institutions offering formal DC training programmes, and those who offered non-formal DC training to adults. Hence, due to the improvement of the curriculum to develop digital skills, the project has also impacted upon;
– Institutions and their teaching staff offering digital competences/skills that are post-vocational education
– Institutions and their teaching staff offering digital competences/skills that are integral to vocational training in VET and HE institutions.

In addition, the project included a Kick-off meeting, 3 Management meetings and one final meeting.

There were 8 direct participating organisations from ES, DE, IT, UK, GR and TR:

-Integra Consultoría Coruña (ES): a EU Training Programmes provider with huge experience in managing EU training programmes and former transfer of innovation programmes; Integra has developed several on-line training activities addressed to unemployed to improve professional skills (including compute and digital skills).
-Academia Postal 3 (ES), an Adult training centre which has developed several activities to promote the digital competences among young and adult learners.
-Gazi University (TR) and Akto College (GR) both Universities offering graduate and postgraduate programmes of studies on ITC systems.
-IHK-Projektgesellschaft (DE) a VET training centre offering training courses and certification oriented on the demand of their regional business and regarding national/international developments/ innovations.
-Bildungswerk der N.W (DE) and Gecko Programmes (UK): Both Vocational and Training centres delivering vocational Training and qualifications to employers, employees and trainers/teachers. Both very active in skills development activities and they both brought experience in creating innovative training materials and didactics /methodological methods.
– Consorzio Arezzo Innovazione (IT) a Public regional developer and training centre that develops training programmes to develop people skills

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169744 Eur

Project Coordinator

Integra Consultoria Coruña SL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• GECKO PROGRAMMES LIMITED
• IHK- PROJEKTGESELLSCHAFT MBH
• Arezzo Innovazione
• Academia Postal 3 Vigo S.L.
• AKTO S.A.
• Bildungswerk der Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft gemeinn. GmbH
• GAZI UNIVERSITESI