Digital skills for adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital skills for adults

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Council of the European Union, on their recommendation from the 22 May 2018 on Key competences for lifelong learning, established a framework of eight key competences to be developed in all citizens of the EU. This recommendation defines Digital competence as the competence that “involves the confident, critical and responsible use of, and engagement with, digital technologies for learning, at work, and for participation in society. It includes information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, media literacy, digital content creation (including programming), safety (including digital well-being and competences related to cybersecurity), intellectual property related questions, problem solving and critical thinking.”

According to the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) report from 2018; in 2017, 43% of the EU population had an insufficient level of digital skills, and 17% had not at all. There are proportionally more men than women with at least basic digital skills (respectively, 60 % and 55 %). In addition, only about 31 % of people with low education levels or no education have at least basic digital skills. This figure is also significantly lower among those living in rural areas (49 %), who tend to be relatively older, than for their city-dwelling counterparts (63 %). The EC paper Digital Education Plan states that 51% of European Citizens don’t feel informed about how to deal with cyberthreats. The lack of digital skills also puts adult people at risk of marginalization, 42% of citizens with no computer skills are inactive in the labour market (Source: The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens).

Results during the project:
– Project management procedures and project plans (work plan, Monitoring and Reporting (M&R), communication and dissemination activities, quality plan) agreed and monitoring.

– 4 transnational meetings realized.
– O1. Digital skills for adults. Course 1: Safety. DigComp level 2.
– O2. Digital skills for adults. Course 2: Information and data literacy. DigComp level 2.
– O3. Digital skills for adults. Course 3: Communication and collaboration. DigComp level 2.
– 14 adult educators and trainers participating in a 5 days international intensive study program (C1)
– 14 adult educators and trainers participating in a 5 days international intensive study program (C2)
– Minimum of 350 people enrolled on the online courses.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219127 Eur

Project Coordinator

Orbis Institute & Country: SK

Project Partners

• JU Srednja ekonomsko-ugostiteljska škola Bar
• Social Cooperative Enterprise of Cyclades
• UNIAO DAS FREGUESIAS DE GONDOMAR (SCOSME) VALBOM E JOVIM
• METODO ESTUDIOS CONSULTORES SL
• Centro Integrado Público de Formación Profesional Misericordia
• Tarsus Ticaret ve Sanayi Odasi