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Events

April 13, 2026 141

From Tool to Thinking: Digital Competences in Adult Education

A BarCamp event will be held in Hannover, Germany, on 24 June 2026, to open the floor for in-depth discussions of adult education experts and practitioners about the implications of digitalisation for society in general and for educational institutions in particular. The event…

Organisations participating in the DigCompAE project are:

VHS Hannover - Germany
VHS Wien - Austria
UPI ljudska universa ŽalecUPI ljudska universa Žalec - Slovenia
Nevelök háza egyesület - Pécs, Hungary
La Ligue de'l enseignement Nouvelle-Aquitaine (LENA) - France
Folkuniversitetet - Sweden
Consorzio OPEN - Italy

Live reporting

First draft with text fields and grayed out areas. In this example, the competence levels Safety, Communication and collaboration and Information and data literacy are addressed in the course. After successful participation, participants have attained competency level three.

November 10, 2025 213

Development of an icon for course classification

November 2025 In order to visualize the course classification of lecturers and program area managers in DigComb 2.3 AT, we began developing icons in the fall of 2025 and finally found a current draft.

November 03, 2025 490

What Employers in Sweden Expect Today: The New Digital Competence Gap

Sweden’s labour market is changing faster than at any point in recent decades. Automation, artificial intelligence, and digital workflows are no longer future trends they are already shaping how work is organised, evaluated, and performed. For Swedish employers, digital…

Oktober 17, 2025 290

A word about "digital" versus "analogue"

October 2025 There is a problem with terminology. DigComp is meant to help define "digital" skills of citizens, as a step towards helping citizens to improve these skills. But what are "digital" skills? And how are they different from "analogue skills"?

Oktober 12, 2025 254

Use a label "100 % digital-free course" as a positive selling argument?

October 2025 Did we focus too much on digital skills, and did we forget people who do not want to bothered with this at all? Here some thoughts on this.

Oktober 10, 2025 280

Observations about the popularity of DigComp in adult education

October 2025 Two workshops at our national conference on digital skills in adult education highlighted doubts about DigComp we already had.

More than 80 participants attended the conference. After a keynote by Olga Kühl the audience split into a variety of workshops.

Oktober 09, 2025 324

National conference on digital skills in adult education

A nation-wide adult education conference on the topic of digitalisation in adult education was held as part of the DigCompAE project on Wednesday, 1st of October 2025, in Hannover.

Oktober 07, 2025 249

Seniors in a Cashless Society: Why Older Adults Need Digital Confidence

In today’s Sweden, the simple act of paying for a coffee or buying groceries has become a digital experience. Cards replace cash, Swish replaces coins, and apps guide everything from travel to communication. For many people this transition feels natural—even liberating. But for…

Oktober 02, 2025 258

Presentation of competence areas – Area zero will be placed in the middle

October 2025 As part of the national conference on digital skills in Hannover (you can find a article here), we offered a workshop together with our project partners from Austria.