Date: 19 June at 14.00-15.30

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Narrative

The ALL DIGITAL Weeks awareness-raising campaign ended on 31 May, marking another successful year of promoting digital education and inclusion across Europe. This year, we proudly reached more than 50.000 people across Europe.

With the invaluable support of our national coordinators, the campaign was effectively sustained and promoted throughout Europe. These coordinators, who are current members of ALL DIGITAL, played a crucial role in connecting with local organizations dedicated to enhancing digital skills in their respective countries. They ensured the campaign’s visibility, managed local partnerships, and monitored performance at the national level.

Embracing the campaign’s motto, “Enhance Your Digital Skills,” our national coordinators organized and promoted a variety of events, conferences, courses, and training sessions that equipped diverse population groups with essential digital skills and education. These initiatives aimed to boost digital knowledge and skills in the eight core areas covered by our themes.

The national coordinators organised and promoted events, conferences, courses and training aimed at increasing digital knowledge and skills of their participants in the areas covered by the 8 core themes:

• • Digital Skills for employment, entrepreneurship and innovation (reskilling and up-skilling for all from basic to advanced skills)
  • Digital Skills in “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’’ – from basic to advanced (migration, democratisation, gender gap, ethnicity
  • DigComp, DigCompEdu and Digital Skills Certifications
    (MyDigiSkills, European Digital Skills Certificate, DigComp Hub)
  • Digital media literacy and disinformation
  • Cybersecurity and safer internet
  • Digital Skills for Environment and Sustainability
    (reference to Twin Transition, GreenComp, SDGs)
  • Digital Skills for specific sectors
    (education, cultural and creative industries, transportation, health…).
  • The application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in education and training
    We invite you to hear the inspiring stories from our national coordinators and discover the significant impact the campaign had across Europe. Join us in celebrating the achievements of the ALL DIGITAL Weeks campaign and continue to support our mission of empowering all individuals through digital education and inclusion.

DRAFT AGENDA

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There is a lot of attention on this year’s European elections, and on the EU’s regulatory power continuing to make great strides in the digital sector with the AI Act, the Digital Services Act, and the Digital Market Act. However, digital inclusion measures are ultimately implemented on the local and regional level, and in many parts of Europe local elections are taking place simultaneously with the European elections.

For these reasons, Mediawijs,, and ALL DIGITAL, the pan-European network of digital education stakeholders, are organising a conference highlighting local and regional approaches to digital inclusion, featuring perspectives from academic research and good practices from around Europe.

Agenda

• 8h45: Welcome and registration
• 9h30: Plenary opening by
  • Altheo Valentini, President, ALL DIGITAL
  • Alenka Le Compte, Digital Inclusion Expert, Mediawijs
  • Gerardo Franco, Europe Philanthropies Lead, Microsoft
• 10h00: Presentation by the universities VUB and UGent: “Localising digital inclusion policy: A comparative analysis of local policy responses to digital exclusion in Belgium, France, and Norway”
  • Dr. Sarah Anrijs, MICT-UGent
  • Paola Verhaert, SMIT-VUB
• 10h45: How does Mediawijs support local governments on digital inclusion in Flanders?
  • Alenka Le Compte, Digital Inclusion Expert, Mediawijs
• 11h00: Coffee break
• 11h30: Panel discussion with good practices from Belgium and Europe
  • Flanders: Josie Vranken, City of Ghent
  • Brussels/Wallonia: Veronique de Leener, CABAN
  • Europe: Liliana Arroyo, Generalidad de Catalunya, Spain
  • Europe: Miomir Rajcevic, Media Education Centre, Serbia
    Moderator: Stefano Kluzer, Research Consultant and Co-Author of the DigComp 2.2 Update, ALL DIGITAL
• 12h15: Discussion in smaller groups on the local and regional approaches to Digital inclusion
  • Facilitators: Alenka Le Compte, Mediawijs, Norman Rohner, ALL DIGITAL
• 13h00: Networking Lunch

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This year, the campaign is focused on digital democracy, civic participation and social responsibility, the impact of artificial intelligence, and digital skills for employment, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Digital competences continue to increase in importance for all European citizens and people living in Europe, especially in terms of digital media and information literacy, cybersecurity and wellbeing.

More and more jobs require digital skills, and beneficiaries must be equipped with the necessary digital skills to access essential services – from health care over housing to education and social welfare – if they are to be provided sustainably and efficiently.  

Join us through this link to follow the event online.

Agenda:

14:00 – Opening of the Event – Altheo Valentini and Peter Palvolgyi (ALL DIGITAL) 

14:10 – Keynote address: Georgi Dimitrov, Head of Unit “Digital Education”, 
DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission

14:30 – Keynote address: Jeremy Rollison, Head of EU Policy, European Government Affairs, Microsoft

14:45 – Keynote address: Elisa Gambardella – President, Lifelong Learning Platform 

15:00 – Panel Discussion: “Digital Skills: Equity, Citizenship, Entrepreneurship, Cybersecurity” 

• Anna Carrero, Deputy head of the unit in charge of vocational education and training, DG EMPL, European Commission
• Nina Olesen, Head of Sector – Skills & Human Factors, European Cybersecurity Organisation & COO at the Women4Cyber Foundation 
• Stefano Kluzer, Research Consultant and Co-Author of the DigComp 2.2 Update, ALL DIGITAL 
• Guillem Porres, Project Director, Fundacio Esplai 
• Elin McCallum, Executive Director, Bantani Education (EntreComp framework) 
• Stella Meyer, Research Associate & Project Manager , Lisbon Council (Digital Citizenship Map) 

16:00 – Closing of the event 

16:00 – 18:00 Networking and World Café 

REGISTER HERE to take part in this insightful event! Registrations are admitted till the 19th of April. After that date, please contact us at contact@all-digital.org

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We are thrilled to invite you for the upcoming Final Conference of the Innovative Digital Education for Active Healthy Living (IDEAHL) Horizon Europe project, on the 6th of March 2024, at the European Parliament, in Brussels.

The conference will serve as a culmination of our collaborative efforts, providing a platform to share the remarkable achievements, showcase project outcomes, and engage in discussions surrounding the sustainability of the results.

You can see the full agenda here.

Register here!

Your presence at this event holds immense value as we collectively celebrate the transformative journey of IDEAHL and delve into the profound impact it has had on digital education for healthier and more active lifestyles.

Throughout the course of the project’s life, the group developed two crucial results:

And the European digital Health Literacy Strategy – guidelines to improve dHL for the benefit of all citizens focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, treatment and (self-)care as well as on monitoring its impact on the quality of life, well-being, productivity, and the economy, taking into account geographic, social and economic determinants of inequities in digital health literacy.

The Global Atlas of Literacies for Health – a resource that not only summarises the various literacy instruments but presents the empirical evidence for how the tools have been used or evaluated and best practice in (digital) health literacy across Europe and beyond.

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ALL Digital launches its Innovation camp to create solutions
for gender inclusion on the topic of STEM education and lifelong learning

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As part of the EQUALS-EU Regional Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age, ALL Digital launches a INNOVATION CAMP dedicated to STEM Education and lifelong learning in Brussels, Belgium on 24 June.

The innovation camp is one of a series of hackathons and innovation camps taking place in 24 countries as part of the EQUALS-EU project.

The outcomes of the group work from the participoants will be judged by a panel of experts on the topic.

The registration for participants is open until 19 June. The event aims to highlight the potential of women, girls, non-binary people, transgender women.

For each event, teams will develop new gender equity solutions for women and girls’ digital inclusion. Each event will focus on the needs of the local cultural context. At the end of each event, a jury of experts and peers will select a solution and team, which will go on to attend the incubator program in 2022. This activity will also synthesis the results of the events to create a roadmap for promoting gender-inclusion innovation.

The 24 winning teams of the Equals EU hackathons and innovation camps will receive the opportunity to further develop their work into a startup through mentoring and training.

About ALL DIGITAL

All Digital (previously known as Telecentre Europe) is a leading pan-European association based in Brussels, representing member organisations across Europe that work with 25,000 digital competence centres. We focus to support Europeans that have an insufficient level of digital skills. That means that they’re having less chances to find work, to use online services, to have a better quality of life, to be included in today’s society.

About the EQUALS-EU project

EQUALS-EU Regional Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age is an international project implemented by 19 project partners from Europe and beyond under the leadership of Oslo Metropolitan University. It started in January 2021 and will conclude in December 2023. The project is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.

It aims to build capacity in gender-inclusive innovation in Europe and partner countries worldwide with an ambitious and value-driven agenda. EQUALS-EU is centred around four key activities that leverage expertise from global leaders in gender-inclusive innovation and new ideas and commitment of future female leaders.

1. Map gender-inclusive innovation ecosystems in 20 countries
2. Host innovation camps and hackathons in 24 countries
3. Run a six-month incubator program focused on gender-inclusive entrepreneurship
4. Hold a one-month boot camp for future leaders in gender-inclusive innovationPress contacts

Learn more about the project at www.equals-eu.org-

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Equals_EU

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equals-eu/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/equalseu/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equalseu

Hashtag : #EqualsEU #EqualsEuHackathons

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Guest speakers are Petra Kotuliakova of the CEPIS Women in IT group and Tamara Dancheva, Senior Manager International Relations, GSMA, who will discuss their initiatives for championing female leadership in IT.

The webinar will be live streamed on our LinkedIn and YouTube channels.

Programme (10:00 – 11:30 CEST)

Introduction
Peter Palvolgyi, CEO at ALL DIGITAL & Jakub Christoph CEPIS Secretary General

The CEPIS ‘DiversIT Charter’ for increasing gender diversity in IT
Petra Kotuliakova, Women in IT group, CEPIS

Perceptions of Power: Championing Female Leadership in Tech
Tamara Dancheva, Senior Manager International Relations, GSMA

Discussion

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Key resources:

CEPIS ‘DiversIT Charter’

GSMA study ‘Perceptions of Power: Championing Female Leadership in Tech’ –

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Join a diverse digital skills community in the heart of the EU!
An eventful evening is awaiting you. Let’s celebrate an intergenerational dialogue and commitment to nurturing European digital talent!
The magnificent Solvay Library, that once welcomed Nobel Prize scientists like Einstein and Bohr, will inspire our quest to achieve the EU’s goal of 20 million employed ICT professionals by 2030.
Don’t miss this opportunity, attend the launch event and enjoy a networking cocktail reception!

REGISTER HERE: https://www.europeandigitalskills.eu/event/registration/

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