Digital Inclusion of Low Skilled Adult People Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Inclusion of Low Skilled Adult People

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Context
According to the 2017 Digital Economy and Society Index, 44% of people in the EU have very low digital skills and an additional 27% have only basic digital skills. 19% of the people in Europe do not use the Internet. Europe is undergoing a digital transformation and citizens must be equipped with the appropriate skills to perform jobs and increase economic growth.
The specific situations in the 4 countries involved are rather different since in some cases the level of digitalization (SE) is higher than other (IT, EL, RO). However, there are some common aspects that need to be underlined: 1. the digitalization level of low skilled adults is in all cases, is lower than the national average level; 2. in all participating countries there is a dynamic trend in providing public services to adults through digital channels (e.g. health, education, culture, etc.); 3. all countries involved have a common goal to increase economic competitiveness also through digitalization of production.

Problem addressed
Keeping these aspects in mind, in the proposed project, the partners will address the need to provide low skilled adults with necessary digital competences for supporting them in becoming more employable and socially integrated. The consequences of delaying improvements in the key areas could lead to the incapacity of Member States and Europe as a whole to reach the 2020 targets related to education and training, and digital skills.

Target group
The primary project target group consists of: low skilled adults (employed or not); Adult Training Organizations; Adult Trainers; Public institutions offering services to adult individuals (e.g. e-health, local/territorial centres for adult people, etc.).
Project aim and objectives
The project aims to strengthen adults’ capacity to efficiently use digital instruments as a precondition to improve their personal and professional lives, reducing significantly the inter-generational digital divide trend.
In particular, the project will provide friendly learning tools for low skilled adults in order to support them in reaching specific digital competences, in line with DigComp foundation and intermediate levels.

Project activities are organised in three outputs with the aim to develop:
– Map of digital competences (O1) – specific key digital competences required by low skilled adults in order to improve the quality of their professional and personal lives
– DInSAd Board Game (O2) – an interactive board game that will allow low skilled adults to acquire fundamental digital knowledge, skills and competences.
– DInSAd Virtual Game (O3) –a virtual learning game for helping low skilled adults in acquiring digital competences at intermediate level, as described by DigComp 2.1.

Partnership
The project brings together 5 partners from 4 European countries, forming a transnational cooperation partnership with a balanced regional geographical representation of the Erasmus+ Area.

Impact and long term benefits
– improve low skilled adults’ digital competences and capacity to benefit from public services available in digital format
– raise awareness regarding the importance of developing digital skills through innovative and interactive learning instruments
– stakeholders dealing with adult education will have at their disposal practical learning tools for the development of digital competences that they can promote to their networks
– the opening of dialogue concerning the subject of reducing digital divide and enhancing digital capacity of adults as precondition for their higher employability and wellbeing, will contribute to create a culture of cooperation among the different stakeholders with mutual benefit.

Project Website

http://www.dinsad.eu/en/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 291545 Eur

Project Coordinator

Comune di Forano (Ri) & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ENAIP Impresa Sociale srl
• ANUP-International
• STIFTELSEN KURSVERKSAMHETEN VID U-AUNIVERSITET
• DIMITRA EKPAIDITIKI SIMVILITIKI AE