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Ongoing projects
Piloting of an Assessment Instrument
for Digital Competence for Foundation
and Intermediate Levels
period: November 2017 - June 2018
source of funding: Service contract, European
Commission’s Joint Research Centre
coordinator: ALL DIGITAL
website: http://all-digital.org/projects/piloting-
assessment-instrument-digital-competence-foundation-
intermediate-levels/
DigComp has been a key strategic priority for ALL
DIGITAL in recent years. We exist to support the 44% of EU
population lacking basic digital skills. A significant challenge
in ensuring digital literacy for all is, however, the lack of a
precise understanding of what digital skills are. We believe
that DigComp can respond to this challenge and support
our members, and other organisations striving to provide
digital skills to everyone.
We started to endorse and emphasize the importance
of DigComp in 2014. We developed the first Guidelines
on the Adoption of DigComp at national level for our
member organisations and we have been involved in
the consultations and events organised by the European
Commission and JRC regarding DigComp.
Thus, in September 2017, we were very happy to respond
to JRC’s call for tenders to validate and pilot a self-
assessment instrument developed by JRC and targeted
at individuals with no or low level of digital skills. The
assessment instrument is based on the latest version of the
Digital Competence Framework for Citizens 2.1.
The objective of this project is to test the reliability and
validity of this assessment instrument among experts and
a small and then a large-scale sample of individuals, to
refine and reduce it in length (from 126 to 63 items) in order
to establish a sound, reliable and valid assessment tool,
based on DigComp 2.1.
ALL DIGITAL is implementing this project in partnership
with four member-organisations: Global Libraries - Bulgaria
Foundation, Digital Opportunities Foundation (Germany),
LIKTA (Latvia), Malta Communications Authority; and an
additional partner: YouRock Online Ltd. (UK).