Internet, social networks, digital media and smart devices in general have transformed in a relatively short period of time many aspects of people’s private, professional and social life. The elderly in particular are at the highest risk of digital exclusion: they are lacking to a great extent the necessary digital skills to be able to be fully active and participative in civic and social life. The acquisition of ICT and digital skills can contribute to address this social challenge by the adoption of ICT and digital technologies. Ensuring that older people have the opportunity to take an active part in the society is very important to make our societies more inclusive.

DIGITALISE ME aims at building a stable and replicable educational offer and improving the provision and supply of quality learning non-formal and informal opportunities tailored to the needs of older adults that educators and educational providers can implement in their countries. While, at the same time, bridging the efforts coming from educational providers, organisations working with older adults and public bodies into unified and more targeted actions that move towards the same direction: provision of better-quality education and opportunities for a higher quality and more inclusive daily life of seniors. 

If you are an adult educator -social worker, teacher, mentor, professor, etc.-, or staff working with seniors the DIGITALISE ME project will help you extend your professional competences while reducing disparities between their capabilities and the ones required to participate in different social and civic life processes.

During the two years of project implementation, partners will develop three main products which will be made available on this platform:

• A transversal mapping of Basic Digital Competences needed for a higher and better social and civic participation 

• A “Digital Living Basics Pack” 

• An online training course “Basic Digital Skills for social and civic active participation”