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These sources and EU-funded initiatives purpose to assist learners of all ages from throughout Europe to develop digital and STEM expertise and be a part of communities to additional achieve faculty, at work, and of their private lives.

The place to start out?

Understanding your digital competencies is step one in mastering your digital expertise and making knowledgeable choices on easy methods to improve them.

Having fundamental digital expertise means you may:

• entry and analyse several types of digital content material
• talk and collaborate on-line
• create and edit digital content material and perceive copyright and licenses
• choose acceptable technological answer to unravel issues
• maintain your self secure and shield your digital well-being

Check your digital expertise

On Europass, you may check your digital expertise, obtain personalised suggestion for programs, and learn to enhance your CV.

Discover examine and profession paths

The Digital Expertise and Jobs Platform is a central hub for digital and STEM expertise data throughout Europe. It presents a complete overview of STEM examine and profession fields, programs and coaching obtainable at EU establishments or on-line and the most recent updates on EU initiatives.

Study from wherever

Ladies Go Round

Ladies Go Round is a free on-line studying platform which trains 14-19-year-old ladies in digital and entrepreneurial expertise. Since 2020, Ladies Go Round has educated over 60 000 ladies throughout Europe, many who’ve gone on to pursue research and careers in STEM fields.

The platform is out there in 24 languages. It presents studying modules on sustainable extraction, consumption, and reuse of pure sources in meals, well being, manufacturing and different industries.

Change into cyber-savvy

Along with digital talent and synthetic intelligence (AI), cybersecurity is a key pillar of constructing the EU’s technological sovereignty and safety. The Cyber Safety Academy gathers current cybersecurity coaching programs, campuses and institutes obtainable within the EU.

Cyber4Women connects girls taken with cybersecurity and covers a variety of specialities, from menace evaluation to coverage growth. It additionally serves as a spot to share expertise, discover enterprise alternatives, and develop knowledgeable community.

Achieve expertise in deep tech

Led by the European Institute of Know-how and Innovation (EIT), Deep Tech Expertise Initiative is a pioneering programme that gives coaching throughout 15 deep tech fields, resembling quantum computing, AI or biotechnology.

The initiative prioritises coaching for:

• secondary faculty pupils, particularly younger girls, with an curiosity in tech
• greater schooling college students in tech fields
• grownup learners in have to upskill

Put your studying into observe

Digital Training Hackathon (DigiEduHack)

DigiEduHack is a collection of grassroot occasions when college students, lecturers, and tech lovers have 24 hours to develop options to totally different challenges in digital schooling, resembling accessibility, studying expertise, or rising applied sciences.

Hackathons happen each November throughout the globe as bodily, hybrid, or on-line occasions. DigiEduHack is open to anybody with or with out prior expertise with hacking and comes with a variety of studying alternatives all year long.

Essentially the most progressive tasks of every version will obtain professional assist and an opportunity to win enterprise teaching, premium software program licenses, entry to a tech convention, or the Interrail Cross for all members.

European Area Company

Working at an area company isn’t just for these aspiring to be astronauts. The European Area Company (ESA) gives a wide range of coaching programmes and sources.

College college students with no earlier expertise within the house sector can take part within the ESA Academy, which presents as much as 20 totally different coaching periods yearly throughout varied fields.

Achieve expertise

Digital Alternative Traineeships

Digital Alternative Traineeships give college students and up to date graduates of all disciplines the chance to advance their digital expertise, improve employability prospects, and supply them with helpful expertise from overseas.

A traineeship can final anytime between 2 and 12 months, aside from longer traineeships in additional advanced industries, resembling structure or medication. Trainees obtain on common € 500 per 30 days. Functions are made by means of the Erasmus+ workplace at your college.

Extra digital and STEM alternatives with Erasmus+

To be taught extra about digital alternatives underneath the Erasmus+ programme and obtain assist along with your purposes, contact the Erasmus+ Nationwide Company in your nation.

Entrepreneurship for everybody

Digital and STEM expertise are intently linked to innovation and entrepreneurship. Sources and instruments can be found that assist girls and anybody beginning their entrepreneurial journey.

Be part of a neighborhood

Are you captivated with STEM schooling and wish to be a part of the most recent developments in digital schooling?

The European Digital Training Hub is a neighborhood of 1000’s of lecturers, educators, tech specialists, and innovation lovers captivated with co-developing options for higher (digital) schooling.

As a Hub member, you’ll get free entry to the most recent analysis supplies, updates in rising applied sciences, webinars, and mentorship networks.

Training initiatives to empower girls in STEM

The EU is going through a extreme gender hole in digital fields, with girls making up only one in 3 STEM graduates (Eurostat, 2022) and 1 in 5 ICT specialists (Digital Decade Progress Report, 2024).

This gender hole limits particular person alternatives and deprives the EU of essential expertise and numerous views which can be important for technological development.

For the European Fee, empowering extra women and girls to pursue research and careers in STEM is a significant EU precedence.