ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | TELECENTRE EUROPE
I-LINC: The Platform for ICT learning and inclusion for youth
employability and entrepreneurship
Ongoing
projects
I-LINC is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under the
H2020 Programme, with the main objective of establishing a sustainable,
overarching platform for ICT (for) learning and inclusion, focused on
boosting the employability of young people.
The I-LINC platform will be the meeting point for stakeholders to
constructively discuss and design socio-educational e-solutions and policy
options to modernise education through ICT, provide inclusive alternatives
to formal education developed by the non-formal education sector and
Third sector, and create a new “digital” path for employment for young
people.
Telecentre Europe is leading the implementing consortium that also
includes:
• European Schoolnet (EUN)
• TU Dortmund University/Social Research Centre (TUDO/sfs)
• Telefonica.
Highlights of the activities carried in 2015 by the
project consortium:
① Developed the platform online infrastructure
available at www.i-linc.eu, a go-to for anyone with
a professional role and interest in the topic of youth
employability and how it can be enhanced through
formal, non-formal or informal ICT education. The
online portal is the key tool of the I-LINC platform
and it is designed with the end-user in mind,
whereby stakeholders will have the opportunity to
share and exchange best practices and initiatives,
connecting them mutually and motivating them to
collaborate and jointly tackle the challenges.
② Performed a context analysis, surveying more
than 200 stakeholders.
③ Organised two face-to-face workshops:
• Empowering youth for employability,
Belgrade, 24th September. The workshop
explored what different stakeholders can do to
empower young people for employability, how
each organisation tackles the issue and who
needs to work more with whom.
Period:
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
Source of funding:
Horizon 2020
Coordinator:
Telecenter Europe
Website:
http://www.i-linc.eu/
• Digital skills inside and outside of the
classroom, Brussels, 6th November. The
workshop managed to put into practice a model
of engaging different stakeholders with the aim
of achieving greater collaboration and synergies.
④ Organised two Wikinclusion sessions on
www.i-linc.eu:
• Framing digital skills. Questions addressed:
How do we define digital skills? Why are digital
skills relevant for all of us? Which specific skills
shall young people enhance? What are the most
relevant skills to boost employability? Are we
lagging behind in terms of skills needs?
• Measuring and assessing digital skills.
Questions addressed: How shall digital skills be
assessed? What are the current methods for
the measurement of digital skills? How can the
measurement of digital skills contribute to better
policies for the development of these skills?
⑤ Published a position paper, following the first
I-LINC workshop on youth employability.
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