Integrating DigComp into Adult Education Holistically

Bringing Digital Skills Training to Emilia-Romagna Prisons

July 2024

During July 2024, the CEFAL Training Institute (associated with the OPEN Consortium), in partnership with two other training institutes in Emilia Romagna, launched the PRODIGI project at the Parma prison. The project is funded by the Digital Republic Fund and is aimed at 100 prisoners in the Emilia Romagna region.

The project will be carried out in the prisons of Parma, Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, and Castelfranco Emilia (Modena) with the aim of increasing the digital skills of inmates.

Ten groups of ten people each will be formed; the courses will last 165 hours each and the training modules will refer to the Digcomp 2.2 reference framework.

In addition, participants will be supported by labor market experts to facilitate their reintegration into the labor market, with a particular focus on the training activities carried out.

The project will end in November 2025.

Map of Europe, the EU and the countries participating in this project

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Development of an icon for course classification

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A word about "digital" versus "analogue"

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