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Knowlede Hub on Digital Transformation in Education and Youth

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  • Digital transformation has changed society and the economy with an ever deepening impact on everyday life, and demonstrated the need for higher levels of digital capacity of education and training systems and institutions. Digital transformation describes the utilisation of digital technologies to drive a change in social, economic and cultural processes and structures.

Digital transformation in education can not only be seen as a technology to facilitate learning or youth engagement but as systemic change. European policies, such as the Digital Education Action Plan, call for development of high-performing educational ecosystems, including infrastructure, strategies, competence and pedagogy on all levels and sectors. Likewise, the development of digital skills of learners is an important aspect of educational content.

In the youth field, the situation is quite similar. While digital technology is often understood mostly as a tool to facilitate nonformal learning and youth engagement, it should also be seen as an opportunity to build new kind of youth work practice, as well as a central phenomena in young peoples lives to be addressed. Digital youth work can be a tool, activity or content in youth work, or all of these at once.

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In the context of the Erasmus+ and European Solidary Corps programmes, digital transformation can be examined in connection to other aspects and priorities of the programmes. The following questions may be utilized as a scaffold to observe the importance and influence of digital transformation:

  • How can digital transformation be a driving force for green transition?
  • What opportunities and challenges does digital transformation offer for inclusion?
  • What are the possibilities for making participation more appealing by using digital approaches?
  • Can digitalisation reinvigorate citizen participation in democratic life or will it bring only challenges?
  • What are the benefits and risks of hybrid or blended mobilities?​​​

Digital Priority in the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes

Our aim is to aggregate information on the digital priority in the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes. We also provide insights into good digital practices of the projects, as well as useful tools and frameworks for National Agencies (NAs) to support beneficiaries and potential applicants on the digital priority.

Erasmus+ grants by organisations supported
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Total number of projects, grant amounts awarded and number of organisations funded by the Erasmus+ programme since 2014.

To see more statistics, visit Data visualisations on Erasmus+

Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects and good practices on digital

Policy context and background

 

Frameworks and tools for the projects

  • DigComp 2.2 – Digital Competence Framework for Citizens 
  • DigCompEdu – Digital Competence Framework for Educators 
  • DigCompOrg – Digitally Competent Educational Organisations 
  • SELFIE – Self-reflection on Effective Learning by Fostering the use of Innovative Educational technologies, tool designed to help schools embed digital technologies into teaching, learning and assessment.
  • European Digital Education Hub –  community to collaborate, exchange best practices and develop solutions with stakeholders from all sectors of education and training 
  • European School Education Platform – meeting point for all stakeholders from early childhood education and care to primary and secondary school, including initial vocational education and training, to find news, interviews, publications, practice examples, courses and partners for their Erasmus+ projects.
  • eTwinning – community for collaboration of schools, including also initial vocational education and training institutions in Europe 
  • EPALE – Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe, community of adult learning professionals
  • Europass – personal tool for learning and working in Europe
  • Euroguidance – network of national resource and information centres for guidance in European countries
  • HEInnovate – self-reflection tool for Higher Education Institutions who wish to explore their innovative potential
     

Guidelines and materials for NAs in order to guide beneficiaries on digital

 

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