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Finalists of the Best ALL DIGITAL Week Event contest

May 22, 2019

This year over 1,500 events have been added to the #alldigitalweek map. All the events automatically entered the Best Event competition, the information about which was disseminated by our national partners and presented on our website.

What did the event organisers have to do to participate in the contest?

Add the event to the Map of events;
After the event was conducted, they went back to the form to update it: they had to add a detailed description of the event, photos, and quotes from participants.
Organisers could also publish the blog about the event on Unite-IT platform and add the link to the description (preferred option);
The finalists were chosen by ALL DIGITAL staff

The scale and variety of events was truly impressive, and it was not easy to choose the best ones.

The ALL DIGITAL Week team selected 14 best events for the jury’s consideration (presented in no particular order):

Make STEAMazing World – Dalia Kager, Velika Gorica, Croatia
ICT career guidance for hard of hearing students – Central City Library, Kaliningrad, Russia (event)
Don’t Be Fooled – AUPEX, Extremadura, Spain
Web 2.0 tools in classroom teaching – Elementary school Knez Sima Markovic, Barajevo, Serbia (event)
Internet is the Genie in the Lamp – Oltea Doamna School, Oradea, Romania (event)
Face Cyberbully – TUDO, Dortmund, Germany (event)
Digital Marathon – Volgograd Agricultural University, Russia (event)
Presentation on Cybersecurity – EURid in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland (one of the events)
Get Your Job Online – TUDO, Dortmund, Germany (event)
Literature and Digitization – Liceul Voievodul Mircea, Targoviste, Romania
Web VR-Jam – Togliatti State University, Russia (event)
Digital Competence Development – When and How – Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty, Lithuania (event)
RETO – ALL DIGITAL Challenge, AUPEX, Extremadura, Spain
New Digital Jobs – New Opportunities – Kyiv National University of Culture & Arts, Ukraine

Congratulations to all finalists! Now the jury is assessing the finalists to choose THREE best events

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Glimpses of ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 events

April 1, 2019

The official ALL DIGITAL Week has just finished, and what a week it has been! Already now there are over 1,200 events on the ALL DIGITAL Week map for more than 70,000 participants who took part in the training, seminars, workshops, and other initiatives brought by partners in 29 European countries.

While our event organisers are still adding their events (you have two more weeks to add your events to the map), we would like to give you some glimpses of a huge variety of events of ALL DIGITAL Week 2019.

ALL DIGITAL Week is still a big digital inclusion campaign, and all of our partners offered basic digital skills training – from basic digital literacy courses and drop-in consultations to workshops on using smartphones and online communications tools to digital payments and using e-services. But what else has been offered according to our main topics?

Build trust in technology

Online safety training in Poland

On the topic of Cybersecurity and online safety our partners in different countriesheld press-conferences, workshops and awareness-raising events to offer tools for online safety and privacy protection.For example, in Romania a few events for schoolchildren were raising awareness about digital threats and teaching cybersecurity and rules of online behaviour – Netiquette. Digital Citizenship workshop in Poland for teenagers explained why and how large companies collect big data online and how we can manage our privacy as citizens of digital societies. Ethical Hacker training in Croatia taught how to hack to help users defend themselves in case of a cyber-attack. A serious of workshops in Lithuania gave practical tips for banking with code cards.

Online safety training in Armenia

Participants of Teen Internet School in Germany learned how to develop reflection skills on their own digital use patterns, exploring the concept of digital footprint. ‘Internet Hoaxes’ in Spain trained participants how to identify the sources or false or fraudulent content and to know the “dangers” to be more secure. In Italy the workshops were aimed at teaching parents how to deal with adolescents and protect them from online threats.

Develop Media Literacy Skills

A lot of the events on Media Literacy are coming from Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, Italy. Media Education Centre held a series of Media Literacy workshops in different parts of Serbia as a part of the national campaign about the importance of the creation of the new digital tools for development of the Global Citizenship Education.

Fake news workshop in Poland

In the series of events organised at Bulgarian libraries, journalists shared their experience on how to recognize fake news and the importance of critical thinking in media literacy. In Germany one of the workshops studied health from the Internet phenomenon and how reliable the information is. In Lithuania, through a series of quizzes and games, in a fun and engaging way participants could brush up their knowledge on our digital world, identifying fake news and using media literacy skills.

In Extremadura, Spain a hundred ‘Don’t be fooled’ workshops were run; they started with a form where users are asked about the reliability of -fake- job offers, confusing ads/headlines and current controversial information. Once the form is completed, users receive feedback with tips, advice, and reflections on how to proceed. After that, a discussion was led by eFacilitators and supported by a presentation that help users understand concepts such as post-truth, disinformation, media and information literacy, critical thinking, as well as the role of active citizenship in promoting media literacy

Developing right skills for new jobs

Digital Storytelling for educators in Italy

Under Employment and Entrepreneurship, there were also events in different countries, including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Spain, UK and Ukraine aimed at young people or adults to search employment online, making use of the social and educational resources. For example, the workshops in Sweden in Italy taught how to boost businesses with the help of online marketing strategies, in France – how to do computer-assisted embroidery. In Ukraine the university organised a series of events under the umbrella name “Digital Jobs – new opportunities” dedicated to the emergence of new professions driven by the development of digital technologies, as well as the organization of an effective digital workplace for traditional professions.

Digital skills for jobs in Spain

In the Vologda region of Russia there was a conference ‘Digital Transformation: the workforce vector’ discussed the job market trends and ways to address the digital transformation in re-skilling and upskilling the workforce. In the UK examples of activities included ‘Digital Skills for social enterprises, teaching self-promotional skills in job search, and how social media can help business grow as part of Google Digital Garage. A few of Certiport’s national partners joined the campaign and organised training and certification for better employment opportunities. Thus, Prodigy Learning in Ireland and the UK offered free Microsoft Certifications, These IT certifications deliver job-ready skills, improving employability for students and productivity for employees.”

A lot of events were also devoted to developing coding skills both for enhancing career opportunities as well as involving more people in STEM careers. Those activities included Programming with Robot Finch in Bulgaria; Minecraft4CODE in Romania, and a number of workshops in Croatia – on robotics, video games programming, coding with micro:bit, and lots of Coding Club workshops.

CodeClub in Croatia

THINK DIGITAL! The future is here in Italy illustrated how and why it is important to get involved in STEM studies and digital technologies. A Forum @Women’s Leadership in STEM Companies in Ukraine was organised to attract women in STEM careers and develop their leadership potential.

Here was just a glimpse from the diverse and all-inclusive events. Keep an eye on ALL DIGITAL Week site, many more events are coming!

If you haven’t done it yet, you still have time until 15 of April. To recognise the efforts of helping to develop digital skills for children, adults and the elderly, all event organizers will receive certificates.

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Working together to support the 43%

March 28, 2019

…of Europeans lacking digital skills

On 26 March, ALL DIGITAL and the Lifelong Learning Platform gathered European stakeholders to tackle the burning issue of digital skills and media literacy. 43% of European citizens lack digital skills to be able to fully participate in and benefit from the digital society. How do we work together to support them? This was the key question that representatives of EU institutions, civil society organisations, education institutions and practitioners came together to discuss at The 43 event as part of the ALL DIGITAL Week.

Watch the introduction video

The speakers and panelists were:

Rodrigo Ballester, Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics
Lara Orlandi, Policy Officer, DG CONNECT, Audiovisual & Media Services Policy Unit
Andras Szucs, Secretary General, EDEN
Fiona Fanning, Director of European Affairs, Certiport
Ilona Kish, Director, Public Libraries 2030
Yves Punie, Deputy Head of Unit and Senior Researcher, JRC – European Commission

The discussion was moderated by Andrea Parola, European E-Skills Association

Looking at the complex picture behind the figure of 43% as an EU average was a recurring theme of the day. Big differences are evident between countries (especially on the North-South and West-East divides) as well as within countries between rural and urban areas. Adapting efforts to address this diversity was a message shared by several speakers.

Considering digital skills within the broader view of social inclusion was also a pivotal point of the debate. Rodrigo Ballester, from the Cabinet of Commissioner Navracsics, stressed that beyond skills mismatches we need to think about inclusion and “digital citizenship”. This includes the promotion of critical thinking and media literacy skills in all sectors of education. He underlined that in many cases young people may perceive themselves as digitally “confident” but are not digitally “competent”, and this strikes an important difference.

Lara Orlandi, from DG CONNECT, further built on this statement to explain that the concept of media literacy has now entered the common discourse in Europe and is indeed at the centre of institutional concerns. Lara talked about the EU Media Literacy Week organised by DG CONNECT on 18-23 May to draw the public attention to the issue of disinformation, importance of professional quality journalism and media literacy skills and education. This goes hand-in-hand – we need to find a sustainable model for quality journalism and provide consumers/readers with the right skills to decode the messages and be more media literate. Some of the takeaways from the conference are:

Media, public authorities and regulators should work together to promote media literacy
Media literacy should be part of school curricula
Reaching out to older users is an increasingly recognised challenge
Self-regulation and trusted media labels would contribute to a trusted and diverse media environment.

The Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) can indeed be a starting point in identifying the skills gap, as Yves Punie, from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, pointed out. DigComp identifies the main components of digital competencies and breaks them down to deliver the framework of what is needed in European societies. Ilona Kish from Public Libraries 2030 recalled that it is not just a question of digital skills themselves but about “how we live and work together in the digital shift”.

Other panellists like Andras Szucs, from the European Distance and E-learning Network, and Fiona Fanning, Certiport, stressed the need to improve our system of digital learning by starting to promote policy and practice across the whole of Europe and beyond.

With so many campaigns, how is it possible to make yours efficient?

All the panellists agreed that methods and approaches depend on the purpose, scale, and target groups.

Multi-stakeholder multi-sectoral partnerships are relevant for the success. It is crucial to design it in collaboration with different stakeholders working on all the levels. You need to engage widely with national and European stakeholders, bringing the national politicians and important respected personalities. E.g., for a Europe-wide campaign, we need to involve national partners and local grassroots organisations to ensure the relevance and credibility.
Avoid duplications so that we align and join forces together – thus we can reach much wider audiences.
Decide beforehand what the campaign is trying to achieve in the short, medium and long term, and consider carefully the expected impact – reach 100 000 people or really change the lives of 100 in a meaningful way? Sometimes you would need to educate funders of the campaign to adopt meaningful measures

Fiona Fanning mentioned the EAST methodology the Certiport and their partners are using while designing the campaigns, which in short means:

E – make it easy and effortless. Make it easy for people to get the skills they need
A – attractive – make it enjoyable, personalised, speak to their motivation, try to provide incentives
S – social – people like social interaction as part of their learning experience,
T – timely – targeted to when the people are most receptive and most feeling the need.

Which tools to use – leaflets, ads, banners, or maybe pigeons 😊 – depends on the target audience. For people who are not digitally literate, you cannot put ads online, you should go to social organisations and libraries and have some leaflets printed; for young people – schools and social media. Andras provocatively commented that at large we are working with consumers who are looking for the interest. There are many tools that are still relevant, appropriate to use, not too expensive, and social media is among those. And in that respect, ‘consumers’ personal interests include being active on social media to share information, and this is what sustains the information sharing.

Yves Punie suggested that another instrument for campaigns could be self-assessment tools and gave an example of SELFIE raising a number of digital competences issues on a school level for students and teachers. It is a self-reflection exercise, but also an important instrument of awareness raising.

Ilona Kish emphasized that with all the approaches we need to remember that the focal point of any campaign should be the impact. Why does it matter? Why is this important for a particular person? And this is where storytelling comes in place and can be an extremely efficient tool.

Ilona also emphasized the importance of exchange across countries and projects. Currently, on the one hand, there are many effective initiatives on national level, which are not reproducible across different countries, and on the other – there is a huge amount of replication, dozens of equally good initiatives. So we should look at better sharing the knowledge and resource.

And with that in mind, the second part of the meeting was devoted to sharing the experiences and projects – participants also had the chance to learn about a diverse collection of inspiring practices in supporting citizens to acquire digital skills and media literacy, including:

LLLP’s project DIGIT on digital footprint for adults;
UpSkill Digital UK, a service of digital trainers;
the ALL DIGITAL project Smart Women on training women in entrepreneurship to bring their own businesses online;
the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange, a project that facilitates intercultural learning through online exchanges;
and the DLEARN project Elithe on innovative methodologies for STEM teachers.

You can see presentations and links to videos on our main website all-digital.org

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ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 launched across 29 countries supported by 1500 organisations

March 25, 2019

2019 year marks the tenth campaign, which started in 2010 from digital inclusion and bringing people online and has grown into a major digital empowerment campaign, supported by governments, businesses, academia and civil society.

At large the campaign encourages Europeans to take active steps towards understanding digital transformation and benefiting from it by developing an adaptive mindset and lifelong learning approach in our ever-changing and increasingly digital world. This is done through thousands of activities covering the full range of digital skills from basic digital and media literacy to cybersecurity, robotics and Internet of Things.

This year ALL DIGITAL Week is held under the patronage of Mr Tibor Navracsics, Member of the European Commission and supported by Liberty Global, Certiport and Google Europe. It is run in partnership with major European organisations: Lifelong Learning Platform, European Schoolnet, Europeana, Public Libraries 2030, CEPIS, European Banking Federation, Digital SME Alliance, European Cybercrime Centre of Europol.

Indeed, ALL DIGITAL Week is a big multi-stakeholder multi-sectoral initiative celebrating digital!

Our national partners lead the campaign activities in their countries, and all the events are run by thousands of local organisations – digital competence centres, libraries, schools, universities, community centres, governments and agencies – and we salute our digital champions!

The week has started with over 800 events for 60,000 participants who will be involved in training, seminars, workshops, conferences and other initiatives brought by over 1500 partner organisations in 29 European countries. This is just the beginning, more events are added daily – keep an eye on the map of events!

Five new organisations have joined the campaign as national partners this year:

Media Education Centre in Serbia will hold a series of Media Literacy workshops in different parts of Serbia as a part of the national campaign about the importance of the creation of the new digital tools for development of the Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development in Serbia.
Centro Studi Citta di Foligno (CSF) for the first time will lead the campaign in the Umbria region of Italy. Each day of the campaign will be devoted to a specific target group – schools, local authorities, SMEs, industry – and will include a thematic workshop for them and a round table discussion for social sector on how better serve this groups.
Prodigy Learning’s campaign in Ireland and UK involves around 100 Testing Centres that will run Test Fest’s across ALL DIGITAL Week, where they open up their testing lab and offer MOS and MCE Certification Exams for free to all candidates. Running a day/ week of Test Fests gives all learners the opportunity to test their digital skills and earn globally, industry-recognised certification from Microsoft.
Upskill Digital in the UK has over 30 training events, workshops and one-to-one mentoring sessions in G Suite, Digital Marketing, Employability Skills, Data & Analytics, and Cybersecurity. In London, the Google Digital Garage Bus is traveling to all 32 boroughs, providing digital skills and mentoring for job seekers and small business owners.
For the first time, ALL DIGITAL Week comes to Armenia and is led by STEM Society in partnership with Safer Internet Armenia Programme. Events and training activities will enable young people and adults learn new digital skills and practice their creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills. They will empower young people with a wide set of skills to understand and protect their safety and privacy online, know how to use, create and share online content in a responsible manner.

Want to know more about what is happening in various countries? Check our PARTNERS section and also browse through EVENTS on that map.

Keep an eye on our website and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @AllDigitalEU and check #alldigitalweek.

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Certiport Supports European ALL DIGITAL Week 2019

March 22, 2019

Certiport and European Partners Promote Digital Skills with Free Certification and Training Events

Brussels, 22 March 2019

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business and the leading provider of performance-based IT certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners, today announced their support for European ALL DIGITAL Week 2019. This pan-European campaign sends a strong message to all citizens on the importance of learning new media literacy and digital skills in order to understand and benefit from the digital transformation. ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 takes place from March 25-29, 2019.

Laurentiu Bunescu, CEO of ALL DIGITAL, said, “We organise ALL DIGITAL Week to support Europeans in their digital transformation journeys. More than ever, we all need to invest in digital skills for media literacy, social inclusion, employability, entrepreneurship and education.”

Some of the specific ALL DIGITAL Week events Certiport and Certiport Authorized Partners are involved in include:

Germany: Certiport partner Certnet will organise a free workshop on Microsoft Office Specialist on March 26.
Ireland and the UK: Certiport partner Prodigy Learning is offering free Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Certified Educator exams.
Paris, France: SkillsUp is providing an open session for Adobe Certified Associate certification will be held at Intuit Lab on Wednesday, March 27.
Poland: Numerous sessions are organized by OpenEDG providing free digital skills training and certification including IT Academy for Adults (IC3 Digital Literacy) and Computer Systems Administrator Academy (Microsoft Technology Associate).
Romania: Certipro Education, Certiport’s partner in Romania, has partnered with Fundatia EOS and the National Association of Public Libraries to offer up to 500 IC3 Spark and IC3 GS5 GMetrix practice exam licenses to schools, public libraries, or other institutions to test digital literacy skills with IC3.

“Certiport is thrilled to be part of ALL DIGITAL Week,” said Ray Murray, Vice President and General Manager – IT, Pearson VUE. “We believe that certification is the best measure of return on investment in digital skills education and we are committed to working to include the 43 percent* of Europeans who still do not have the digital skills needed for today’s workplace.”

Certiport has participated in several initiatives to raise awareness and address the digital skills gap in Europe and recently received the European Code Week Certificate of Excellence for its role in engaging its vast European network of partners to scale up the impact of learning to code.

*European Commission, Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) Human Capital and Digital Skills: ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/human-capital

About Certiport

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 14,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. Certiport manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office Specialist certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Microsoft Certified Educator program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the Autodesk Certified User and Autodesk Certified Professional certification programs, the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User certification program, and the IC3 Digital Literacy certification. Certiport reliably delivers over three million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in 148 countries and 26 languages worldwide. For more information, www.certiport.com or follow Certiport on Twitter at www.twitter.com/certiport.

“Certiport” and “MOS” are registered trademarks of Certiport, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Source – https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/

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Tell us about your events for ALL DIGITAL Week 2019!

February 19, 2019

The map of events for 2019 is open!

The map of events is open, and we invite digital competence centres, VET providers, lifelong learning organisations, youth organisations, schools, libraries, social enterprises and anyone else interested to get involved by organising relevant events for ALL DIGITAL Week 2019.

Who is the ALL DIGITAL Week for?

The ALL DIGITAL Week is for everybody! It is to help people with no, low, or insufficient digital skills to improve them through various training activities. Encourage your students/patrons/learners/neighbours/colleagues to try something new or learn a new skill during this week to help them be safe online, enhance their work productivity or study better, be media literate, prepare for a new job or enjoy the the communication with the loved ones.

We haven’t found out country in the list of partners. Can we participate?

ANYBODY can join the campaign. You can organise an event yourselves and let us know about it by adding it on the ALL DIGITAL Week Map.

Any ideas on which events to organise?

Browse our RESOURCES for inspiration
Get some hints from our national partners by reading the profiles in the PARTNERS section
Check the available events on the map

When should we add the event on the map?

It is better to add it as soon as the even is planned. This will probably encourage others to follow your example, and you can learn by browsing events what people in different countries are planning.

After the event is conducted, you can go back to your form and describe how it went – let us know your impressions, share participants feedback and photos.

Why?

All event organisers will receive the certificate after they complete the form. If the event is described well, has photos and feedback from participants, it automatically enters the contest for the Best training or Best promo event, the winners of which will be invited to attend the ALL DIGITAL Summit in Bologna in October and will receive the travel grant.

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Call for ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 partners

December 3, 2018

Would you like to join the biggest European digital empowerment campaign?

We invite national networks, umbrella organisations, or those with capacity to have a big regional or national reach to become partners of the European ALL DIGITAL Week on 25-31 March 2019.

The 10th edition of the campaign wishes to send a strong message to Europeans that they should take active steps towards understanding and benefiting from the digital transformation, by learning new media literacy and digital skills and by developing an adaptive mindset.

ALL DIGITAL Week 2019 will give people tools and approaches to enhance their digital skills and help them to be more adaptive with respect to their working skills. The campaign will:

Promote media literacy by developing critical thinking and digital literacy
Build safety and trust in technology by developing cybersecurity skills
Enhance employability by developing the right skills for the new digital jobs.

Underpinning these themes there will be a range of events and activities covering a variety of topics from digital literacy and digital citizenship to coding and STEM skills for society.

If you wish to

Be a partner in a pan-European campaign, which has already reached over 1 125 000 people;
Lead the ALL DIGITAL Week activities in your country or region;

Get to know other organisations working to enhance digital skills in various European countries and learn about/from their experience and initiatives – find partners for possible future projects;

Promote your organisation and activities on the European level through our channels to a network of 60 ALL DIGITAL member organisations, 4,000+ social media followers and 1,300+ newsletter subscribers,

Learn here how to get involved and register

We look forward to your registrations!

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Best Events of ALL DIGITAL Week 2018 celebrated in Brussels

November 2, 2018

On 18 October 2018, the ALL DIGITAL Awards Ceremony was organised in Brussels to celebrate the finalists and winners of the awards competition, organised each year to recognise the achievements of individuals and organisations across Europe that enable people to exploit the benefits and opportunities created by digital transformation.

One of the categories was the THREE Best Events of ALL DIGITAL Week 2018. That competition was held during the campaign. To enter the competition the organisers had to add their event to the map with photos, description and feedback from participants. And the jury assessed those based on the quality of content, participation, media impact, etc. Out of the events presented on the map the organisers chose three best ones.

We were very excited that all of them managed to come to Brussels to participate in the ALL DIGITAL Summit and the Awards Ceremony!

Best promo event: From Digiblaha to Digiaha, Finland
For the first time this year the ALL DIGITAL Week was organized in Finland thanks to our cooperation with Bildningsalliansen and Make it Finland. We were very excited to partner with them and hope it will continue. They really pulled their resources and organized a few events all over the country, one being a big opening day called From Digiblaha to Digiaha. 19 March became the All Digital Day. The three floors of the big house in downtown Helsinki were filled with keynotes, discussions, a digital fair, presentations, and a lot of laughter. On our Unite-IT platform you can learn more about the event with the full agenda, photos and videos – if you want to organize smth similar – you have the ready script: Finland: From Digiblaha to digiaha.

Bildningsalliansen is the organization that united various partners, and at the Ceremony it was represented by Liisa Tiainen of VTKL – The Finnish Association for the Welfare of Older People.

Other two events are the training events, and no surprise that the events from these two countries won – they have been partners in the campaign from the very beginning – Romania and Spain.

Best training event ‘Introduction to Cybersecurity’, Romania

The first ‘event’ was in fact a series of events at Ienachita Văcărescu National College in Targoviste, Romania as part of Introduction to Cybersecurity training course as part of Cisco NetAcad programme. 380 students between the ages of 15 and 17 years old attended an online course either from school or from home with support of their teachers. You can learn more in the blog Romania: “Introduction to Cybersecurity” at “Ienachita Vacarescu” National College.
The teachers from the College Anca Mihaela Rafira and Catalina Estera Vlad were present at the Ceremony.

Best training event “All Digital Ring”, Spain

It felt like the biggest media buzz was coming from Extremadura, Spain – over 1100 users participated in ALL DIGITAL Rings in various ICT centres, civic centres, libraries and other public spaces. The events were supported by ALL DIGITAL member AUPEX. The ring is an activity based on a Scratch project, easily scalable that have been adapted to different levels of digital competence and contexts. Also, on our Unite-IT blog Spain: All Digital Ring | Scratch project to be shared there is a detailed explanation of how it is done, the links to questions and tips on how to conduct.
AUPEX and ALL DIGITAL Ring was represented by Antonio Roman-Casas.

The winners of ALL DIGITAL Week Best event were awarded by CEO of ALL DIGITAL Laurentiu Bunescu. CONGRATULATIONS!

From left to right: Representatives of AUPEX, ALL DIGITAL, Bildningsalliansen, Ienachita Vacarescu National College

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125,000 participants in 5,000 events of ALL DIGITAL Week 2018

June 6, 2018

ALL DIGITAL Week 2018 turned out to be one of the most successful campaigns – it united 4,070 partners from 32 countries to offer 5,445 events to over 125,000 participants.

The digital empowerment campaign was organised by ALL DIGITAL for the 9th time and was run in digital competence centres, libraries, schools, community centres, etc. across Europe supported by local authorities, companies, academia and volunteers from various sectors.

Laurentiu Bunescu, CEO of ALL DIGITAL, said, “We organise ALL DIGITAL WEEK to support Europeans in their digital transformation journeys. More than ever, we all need to invest in digital skills for media literacy, social inclusion, employability, entrepreneurship and education.”

Special employment centre workers in Spain

This year the campaign was supported by Certiport, a Pearson VUE business – the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery, and program management services. Fiona Fanning, Director of European Affairs, commented, “As technology pervades all aspects of our lives, it has never been more important to ensure that all Europeans have the opportunity to gain the digital skills and certification that will help them succeed as a student, citizen, and an employee. We are thrilled to support the important mission of ALL DIGITAL Week in facilitating a truly pan-European digital transformation.”

Creative programming class in Romania

As the technology develops, there are still people who are left behind, and 43% of Europeans still have insufficient level of digital skills, so initiatives like ALL DIGITAL Week stay important. The ALL DIGITAL Week 2018 had two main themes:

Build trust in technology by developing critical thinking and media literacy (including being aware of and combating fake news, hate speech and social media abuse)
Develop a lifelong learning approach to enhancing digital skills in an ever changing and increasingly digital-oriented economy.

Digital Literacy workshop in Denmark

Underpinning these themes there were diverse events and activities covering a variety of topics from basic digital skills (30.7%), digital media literacy (23.9%) to online safety and cybersecurity (12.6%), STEAM (10.9%) and coding (5%). The figures show the relevance of the original idea of the campaign – to bring people online and help them with basic digital skills.

The most popular types of events were workshops and training sessions (58.5%), digital skills assessment and certification (14.8%) and information sessions/seminars (11.3%). However, there were also different promo events, conferences, discussions, awards, contests, and even hackathons.

Debate in Sweden

The events are traditionally offered to various audiences, and this year the main target groups included school children (30.1%), trainers/teachers (18.7%), general public (17.7%), unemployed adults (10.5%), NEETs (7.9%) and retirees/elderly (5.4%).

ALL DIGITAL Week was led by our national partners in 26 countries, and all the figures are based on the reports provided by them. We are grateful for their dedication and leadership in their communities. You can see the overview of activities in each country where we had a national partner by clicking on the flag. There you can also see the links to blogposts, photos, some media coverage, and information on past editions.

Coding in Bulgaria

This year we made the campaign more inclusive – any event organiser could put their event on the map and tell us how it went, even if there were no national partners involved. Over 800 events were added to the map, and we are so happy to have learned that the campaign activities were held in more countries and more communities beyond the ones covered by national partners. Thank you!! We hope you have all enjoyed being part of the European campaign and we’d like to see you again with us next year!

All the events entered the contest, and the jury chose the 10 finalists and THREE BEST events of ALL DIGITAl Week 2018 – ‘All digital ring’ workshop from Spain, Introduction to Cybersecurity from Romania, and the campaign launch event from Finland. They Awards Ceremony will take place in Brussels on 18 October as part of the ALL DIGITAL Summit.

Coding event in Italy

What now?

You can browse the events on the map and get inspired for your own work!
You can read the blogs and photos from the campaign from our national partners and event organisers on our community networking platform www.unite-it.edu

And we, together with our partners, will continue our efforts to support people in their digital journeys! So JOIN US FOR the 10th edition of ALL DIGITAL Week on 25-31 March 2019!

ALL DIGITAL Week 2018_Infographics in pdf

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Best events of ALL DIGITAL Week 2018

April 24, 2018

Over 800 events have been added to the #alldigitalweek map, and many more to the individual countries’ maps. The variety of events was truly impressive, and we were really excited to learn about them from the map.

All the events automatically entered the Best Event competition, the information about which was disseminated by our national partners and presented on our website.

What did the event organisers have to do to participate in the contest?

Opening event in Finland

Add the event to the Map of events;
After the event was conducted, they went back to the form to update it: they had to add a detailed description of the event, photos, and quotes from participants. The description could include learning objectives, stages, results, what participants have learned, what went well, what was challenging, their own impressions of the event;
Cypersecurity training in Romania
Organisers could also publish the blog about the event on Unite-IT platform and add the link to the description (preferred option);
All completed events entered the competition automatically;
The best events were selected by a jury consisting of ALL DIGITAL staff and Board members, based on a combined set of criteria, including quality of content, participation, event media impact, etc.

The ALL DIGITAL Week team selected 10 best events for the jury’s consideration, and here are our finalist events:

And among those the jury selected the best three. Our warmest congratulations go to

Spain: All Digital Ring | Scratch project to be shared – AUPEX
Finland: From Digiblaha to digiaha – Bildningsalliansen
Romania: “Introduction to Cybersecurity” at “Ienachita Vacarescu” National College, Targoviste – Ienachita Vacarescu National College

All Digital Ring in Spain

The prize includes participation in the ALL DIGITAL Summit 2018 on 18-19 October in Brussels: conference package and travel grant for up to 500 EU for one representative from a winning organisation.

We look forward to seeing the winners in Brussels and celebrating their efforts in the special Awards Ceremony on 18 October!

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