Germany

June 17, 2019

2019: Be digital – improve and share your skills!

In 2019, the ALL DIGITAL Week in Germany was organised by two partners – Stiftung Digitale Chancen and the students of Scientific Institute of the Technical University Dortmund.

Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation – SDC) was the German National Partner for ALL DIGITAL Week for the eighth time.

In this year’s ALL DIGITAL Week, Stiftung Digitale Chancen focused on digital media in education and the digital inclusion of all target groups under the slogan: “Be Digital – Improve and Share Your Skills!”.

Many digital competence centres all over Germany participated by conducting events and workshops: the “Smartphone Consultation Hour” for senior citizens in Darmstadt and Neuss; the workshop “That’s how Twitter works” for associations and organization of the regional media authority in Saarbrücken; the “Gaming, chatting, posting …” workshop for young people in Hamburg; the free “MS Office – determine and expand knowledge” workshop by the Certiport partner Certnet; and many others. In one of the foundation’s own events young school children learned how to make music with tablets, how to control a computer game with dough and cables, and how to bring a drawing to life.

For the last 5 years Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Central (Scientific Institute of the Technical University Dortmund ) has helped to boost ALL DIGITAL Week activities in the region and collaborated with Stiftung Digitale Chancen. Supported by Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund Central, a group of students studying BA in rehabilitation science at University of Dortmund created workshops to improve digital inclusion.

This year twelve students prepared more than 40 workshops for ALL DIGITAL Week Dortmund 2019. The workshops dealt with four different topics: digital job applications, facebook for people with intellectual impairments, a first introduction to the app GoTalkNow and facing cyber bullying for pupils and parents. The Workshops took place in more than 30 telecentres and several learning spaces as well as social work and health institutions in and around Dortmund. They applied free WiFi from hotspots provided by DOKOM21.

Here is what the students say, “Even though this ALL DIGITAL Week was the 5th in Dortmund, it was the first for our group. To work at a project like this, connect with partners and participants, create and lead workshops and evaluate our activities was and still is a new and exciting experience for all of us. Due to that we are mostly proud of all the positive feedback following the workshops. All workshops were asked to be continued after the ALL DIGITAL Week. We were able to reach a lot of new partners who are excited to be part of the ALL DIGITAL Week in following years. ”

TUDO – Get your job online workshop

This year 87 workshops, webinars and consultations took place in Germany, and Stiftung Digital Chancen is proud to see all the different 108 organisations – digital competence centres, senior and youth centres and many more – to have organised 132 activities for 1,200 people.

Nationwide:
Website: https://www.digitale-chancen.de/alldigitalweek/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllDigitalW_de

Website: http://www.sfs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/de/Projekte/getonlineweek/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gowdo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getonlineweek19/

Contact: Mrs. Nenja Wolbers, Project Manager

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