Foreword
2015 has been a special year for our organisation,
marked by the election of a new Board early in
February and a mid-term review of our Strategy
2013-2017 that led to releasing a Strategic Roadmap
intended to guide the work of our organisation
during the mandate of this Board until early 2017.
While its 5-Pillar model was ratified, some hot issues
were explicitly added to our agenda. This way, to our
ongoing effort to build the capacity of telecentres
and their e-Facilitators, and to align their training
offer to European standards (namely DIGCOMP),
we will focus on youth employability, newcomers
(i.e. refugees, migrants) integration and civic
e-participation – which by the way is in consonance
with the Post-Paris agenda resulting from the recent
revision of the EU strategy Education & Training
2020.
This year we created a repository of resources for
e-Facilitators and developed guidelines for our
members to ease their understanding and adoption
of DIGCOMP. We started to explore the worlds of
coding and mobile through CODEMOB project and
the Code Your Future campaign, both kicked-off in
autumn.
When it comes to youth, we have launched the
I-LINC platform to enhance the collaboration
between formal education (represented by European
Schoolnet) and digital inclusion sectors with the
common goal of improving the employability of
European youth. We have produced a longitudinal
analysis of the data collected through Skillage since
2012. Still on skills for jobs we supported FIT4JOBS
project where 6 of our members are involved.
Regarding civic e-participation, we ran for the first
time our branded European e-Participation Day in
11 countries in May as part of E-UROPa project,
concluding with a conference at the European
Parliament in December. Refugees emerged as a
burning social issue during the year, so in 2016 we
will look for targeted solutions to facilitate their
integration building over the experience of members
serving migrants.
Digital training, inclusion and empowerment are of
course transversal to our overall strategy, and for
this reason Get Online Week continues to be our
flagship campaign, which received the endorsement
of VP Ansip and other relevant members of Juncker
Commission.
On the advocacy front, our recognition by European
institutions and peer organisations continued to
expand, thanks to our engagement in the Secretariat
of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs and the EC’s
e-Skills for Jobs campaign; our signature of Riga’s
e-Skills declaration with other 5 networks and
our support to Latvian presidency during the first
semester; our increasing involvement as a EC social
and expert partner in digital skills and trai