Digital Skills and Digital Literacy : European Union policy actions
The New Skills Agenda calls on Member States to develop comprehensive digital skills strategies. To support the countries with the development of their strategies the Commission has set up an expert group with representatives nominated by their Member State. |
Skills development is a lifelong process. And what are European Union policy actions regarding digital skills?
# The Digital Competence Conceptual (DigComp 2.0) Reference Model
DigComp 2.0 was completed with the publication of DigComp 2.0: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens. Update Phase 1: the Conceptual Reference Model. The update consists of a revision of the 21 descriptors and the vocabulary, both of which are listed below.
Phase 2 of the update, which will be completed by the first quarter of 2017, includes 8 levels of learning outcomes and examples of the knowledge, skills and attitudes related to each competence. For the involvement in the validation process, contact the team.
1. Information and data literacy To articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and content. To judge the relevance of the source and its content. To store, manage, and organise digital data, information and content. | |||
1.1 Browsing, searching and filtering data, information and digital content | 1.2 Evaluating data, information and digital content | 1.3 Managing data, information and digital | |
2. Communication and collaboration To interact, communicate and collaborate through digital technologies while being aware of cultural and generational diversity. To participate in society through public and private digital services and participatory citizenship. To manage one’s digital identity and reputation. | |||
2.1 Interacting through digital technologies | 2.2 Sharing through digital technologies | 2.3 Engaging in citizenship through digital technologies | |
2.4 Collaborating through digital technologies | 2.5 Netiquette | 2.6 Managing digital identity | |
3. Digital content creation To create and edit digital content To improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge while understanding how copyright and licences are to be applied. To know how to give understandable instructions for a computer system. | |||
3.1 Developing digital content | 3.2 Integrating and re-elaborating digital content | 3.3 Copyright and licences | |
3. 4 Programming |
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4. Safety To protect devices, content, personal data and privacy in digital environments. To protect physical and psychological health, and to be aware of digital technologies for social well-being and social inclusion. To be aware of the environmental impact of digital technologies and their use. | |||
4.1 Protecting devices | 4.2 Protecting personal data and privacy | 4.3 Protecting health and well-being | |
4.4 Protecting the environment |
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5. Problem solving To identify needs and problems, and to resolve conceptual problems and problem situations in digital environments. To use digital tools to innovate processes and products. To keep up-to-date with the digital evolution. | |||
5.1 Solving technical problems | 5.2 Identifying needs and technological responses | 5.3 Creatively using digital technologies | |
5.4 Identifying digital competence gaps |
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# More about Digital Competence and Digital Literacy
# Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition initiatives
In 2016, over 200 projects applied to Digital Skills Award 2016 from all over Europe. Sixteen projects were selected as finalists and the fourmost outstanding ones were announced in Brussels on 1 December 2016 at the launch of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition to develop a large digital talent pool and ensure that individuals and the labour force in Europe are equipped with adequate digital skills.
All organisations who take action to boost digital skills in Europe can become members of the Coalition by endorsing the objectives and principles of the Coalition as laid out in the members Charter. They can also pledge to take action to carry out initiatives to tackle the digital skills gap.
# Four areas for boosting DigitalSkills in Europe
Here you can check the progress of the pledges in the context of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition as reported by the pledges themselves:
DIGITAL SKILLS FOR ICT PROFESSIONALS
DIGITAL SKILLS IN EDUCATION
DIGITAL SKILLS FOR LABOUR FORCE
DIGITAL SKILLS FOR ALL CITIZENS
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# The European Framework for Digitally-Competent Educational Organisations (DigCompOrg)
The primary purposes of DigCompOrg framework are (i) to encourage self-reflection and self-assessment within educational organisations as they progressively deepen their engagement with digital learning and pedagogies (ii) to enable policy makers to design, implement and evaluate policy interventions for the integration and effective use of digital learning technologies.
# The European Commission’s Opening up Education initiative emphasises the need for educational institutions to review their strategies in order to integrate digital technologies in their teaching, learning and organisational practices.
# Does digital competence and occupational setting influence MOOC participation? Evidence from a cross-course survey
Results of the regression analysis show that the level of digital competence is an important predictor for enrolment in MOOCs and that specifically interaction skills are the most important factor for participating in the MOOC context.
# A New Framework for Free Movement of Data
The paper analyses an array of state-of-the-art proposals for facilitating data flows and proposes a three-point roadmap for improving the “free movement of data” in Europe: adopt “once-only” at the European level; strengthen European-level cyber security and crack down on unjustified data localisation; and develop more open and transparent policies for data sharing around a new concept of “co-ownership.”
# European Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) : some updates
On 21 June 2017, the European Commission set-up the new High Level Expert Group European Open Science Cloud. Its mission is to advise the Commission on the measures needed to implement the European Open Science Cloud ...
# From great science to thrilling technology
By providing support to a unique mix of high-risk, long-term, multidisciplinary and collaborative frontier research projects, the Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) programme continuously pushes technological boundaries into unexplored territories ... This booklet is intended to give just an idea of the rich range of FET projects.
# OpenAIRE: Europe’s Hub for Open Science
OpenAIRE is an EC-supported initiative to foster Open Science in Europe in order to accelerate research and boost innovation. Europe’s research can be open to everyone! Find out how!
# Top 5 skills needed for the industrial IoT
Over the next five years, the demand for IT workers will get a big boost from an unlikely source: manufacturers looking for networking pros who can help them run the industrial internet of things (IIoT).
