Digital Transformation
32. Proposal: Digital literacy and skills that empower people
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Measure 32(1) - Ensuring Access to Digital Literacy and Skills Training *
32.1) Ensuring access to formal and non-formal digital literacy and skills training and education, including in school curricula, during all stages of life by building on existing initiatives at European level, with special focus on the inclusion of vulnerable groups and elderly, enhancing digital skills of children in a manner that is compatible with their healthy development and tackling digital inequalities, including the digital gender gap; (ECP1 recommendation number 8, Italian NCP 5.2, WG debate)
* This measure has been identified as needing Treaty change for full implementation.- 2030 policy programme “Path to the Digital Decade”
- Recommendations on individual learning accounts and micro-credentials
- The new European Strategy for a better internet for kids
- Virtual worlds
- Recommendations on digital education
- European Year of Skills 2023
- Digital empowerment to protect and enforce fundamental rights in the digital age
- Skills and labour shortages in the EU: an action plan
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Measure 32(2) - Promoting Healthy Internet Use *
32.2) Ensuring a healthy use of the internet by encouraging Member States to implement digital skills training for all age-groups with standard programmes and curricula set at European level concerning e.g. the risks and opportunities of the internet, online rights of users and the netiquette; (ECP1 recommendation number 47, WG debate)
* This measure has been identified as needing Treaty change for full implementation. -
Measure 32(3) - Ensuring Technology and Non-Digital Accessibility for Older People
32.3) Taking all the necessary measures to ensure that the digitalisation of society does not leave out older people and that technology is accessible to them by fostering programs and initiatives, for instance in the form of classes tailored to their needs. At the same time it should be ensured that essential services can also be accessed in person and by non-digital means; (ECP1 recommendation number 34 and 47)
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Measure 32(4) - Introducing EU Certification for Digital Skills in Schools
32.4) The introduction of an EU certification relating to digital skills in schools that will prepare young people for the future job market; (ECP1 recommendation number 8)
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Measure 32(5) - Retraining and Upskilling Workers for Digital Competence
32.5) Develop training initiatives coordinated at EU level to retrain and upskill workers to remain competitive in the job market, taking especially also account of competences and skills needed in small and medium sized enterprises and to train digital experts; (ECP1 recommendation number 8 and WG debate)
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Measure 32(6) - Raising Awareness about Job Platforms like EURES
32.6) Awareness raising about existing digital platforms that connect people to employers and help in finding jobs in the EU, such as EURES; (ECP1 recommendation number 8)
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Measure 32(7) - Boosting Investments in Digitalization of Education
32.7) Increasing investments and efforts to boost digitalisation of education, including higher education. (WG debate, Multilingual Digital Platform)