TELECENTRE EUROPE ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

LAURENTIU BUNESCUGrants and Campaigns ManagerTelecentre Europe

Szeged, 27th Nov 2014

• A Europe-wide movement that brings digital opportunity and equity to all European citizens, improving their quality of life, employability and social and civic participation

• A membership organization that increases the effectiveness of telecentres to provide citizens expertise in digital technologies by fostering knowledge sharing, capacity building and advocacy

• Membership formed by 45 organizations from 30 European countries

• It represents 20.000+ ICT learning centres

ABOUT US

5-PILLAR STRATEGY AND ONGOING PROGRAMMES

EDUCATION & TRAINING Development of new digital literacy programmes Capacity building training Competency testing (Skillage) Dissemination of best practices

ADVOCACY & CAMPAIGNS Digital agenda for Europe Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs and Local Coalitions Innovation partnership on active and healthy ageing TE annual conference and events Get Online Week eSkills for Jobs

RESEARCH & INNOVATION E-inclusion surveys (MIREIA) Research of best practices in digital literacy programmes Needs analyses in digital inclusion and empowerment Development of innovative problem solutions in local

communities

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Support stakeholder involvement in the policy process Encourage cooperation with other EU networks / NGOs Strengthen the capacity of the organisation and its

national members, including their knowledge of relevant EU matters.

SUSTAINABILITY & FUNDING Grow to a level that allows operating sustainably Funding sources diversification Expert staff team able to manage a number of member/partner projects Ensuring that projects are member driven EU funding calls screening for members

UNITE-IT NETWORK

• Transform the pre-existent online community of Telecentre Europe into a community of practitioners

• Aim to raise awareness, collect and exchange best practices on e-inclusion

• Project supported pooling of hundreds of good practices and policies and the organization of 2 annual conferences in Malta and Croatia

• Four active working groups now on the platform:

• Education, training, and certification

• Youth employability

• Vulnerable groups at risk of exclusion

• Gender equality

www.unite-it.eu

GET ONLINE WEEK

• Annual digital empowerment campaign organized by Telecentre Europe and national partners

• In 2015, the campaign will focus on two main themes:

• Digital inclusion

• Digital empowerment

• 19 partners in 18 countries already registered

• Partners will involve at least 5,000 community telecentres in campaign activities

• At least 50,000 people will be trained or involved in campaign activities (workshops, conferences, etc)

SKILLAGE

• Online application that assesses youths’ digital skills for getting a job and for keeping that job

• 15 questions quiz on 5 categories drawn randomly from pool of 100* questions - aligned to Digital Competence Framework

• Available in 16 European languages, but soon available in all EU languages

• At the end of the test, a report shows user’s levels of digital skills

• Skillage enables current, comparable data on digital skills levels in different thematic areas to be able to target support effectively:

• Over 30,000 users so far

• In Hungary, the average score is at 56% www.skillage.eu

Employability

Productivity

Communications

Social Media

Content management and safety

THANK YOU!

www.telecentre-europe.org

laurentiu@telecentre-europe.org