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Theme

 

Digital technologies are key drivers of innovation, growth and job creation in a global world. Not everybody however, has the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be able to use digital technologies in a critical, collaborative and creative way. According to studies 30% of all Europeans are digitally illiterate (older people, less educated youth, lower income families, migrants, at risk of social exclusion, etc.). The lack of digital competence of a large part of the EU population has dramatic repercussions on their employability perspective. In the EU 42% of people with no core computer skills are inactive in the labour market. Digital competence is becoming a must for employability and active citizenship, especially as it is expected that 90% of jobs in the near future will require ICT skills of some level.


Digital competence refers to the ability to use digital technologies. It involves the confident and critical use of Information Society Technology (IST) for work, leisure and communication. It is underpinned by basic skills in ICT: the use of computers to retrieve, assess, store, produce, present and exchange information, and to communicate and participate in collaborative networks via the Internet.
 

One of the main challenges that require actions from educational sector is how to prepare the population to constantly keep updating digital competences in order to adapt in technologically diverse environment. Transnational collaboration and exchange of innovative ideas between European educational institutions through Erasmus+ programme is an opportunity for tackling these issues.

 

Aim


The overall idea of the contact seminar is to find partners with similar interests and develop ideas for the new KA2 strategic partnerships on the issue of ICT and digital skills. The seminar will also give an opportunity to share experience and discover new approaches in the field with the possibility to create cross sectoral and transversal collaborations.


The seminar is open to participants within the fields of school education, vocational education and training, adult education and higher education. The contact seminar is mainly targeted at representatives from schools, VET and higher education institutions, second chance schools, adult education centres, teacher training institutions, enterprises, research institutions and other organisations interested in the theme of the seminar and committed to develop Erasmus+ strategic partnership.


We welcome up to 3 participants from each country, with a maximum of 70 delegates altogether. National agency colleagues are most welcome as well.

THEME AND OBJECTIVES

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