Project Consortium

The DigCompAE project is a joint activity of the following seven adult education organisations from seven European countries:

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VHS Hannover

VHS Hannover (Volkshochschule Hannover), founded in 1919, is a non-profit adult education institution affiliated to the municipality of…

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La Ligue de l’Enseignement Nouvelle-Aquitaine (LENA)

Ligue de l’Enseignement (La Ligue) is a movement in France with a history of more than 150 years. It aims to guarantee access to education…

Folkuniversitetet

Folkuniversitetet is an organization that offers adult education across Sweden. It is run by five foundations. These are connected to the…

Nevelők Háza Egyesület

Nevelők Háza Egyesület (NHE), or in English: Educators’ Centre Association, is one of the leading NGOs of Hungary, operating numerous…

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Die Wiener Volkshochschulen

VHS Vienna is a large adult education institution with a longstanding tradition in adult basic education. It has 1000 employed staff and…

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UPI ljudska univesa Žalec

UPI Ljudska universa Žalec (People's university Žalec) is a public institution for adult and youth education. It was established in 1975 as…

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Consorzio OPEN

Consorzio OPEN is an association of 8 organisations in Italy working on a regional or national level.

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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 38

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 290

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…

October 17, 2025 137

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"?

October 12, 2025 116

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.

October 10, 2025 130

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.

October 09, 2025 120

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.

October 07, 2025 107

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…

October 02, 2025 116

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.