SALTO Digital Resource Centre
European SALTO Digital Resource Centre (hosted by the Finnish National Agency for Education) supports, in line with the Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) and the European Youth Strategy, the digital transformation as an overarching priority in both Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps Programmes, seeking to continuously raise the quality of digital education and training and digital aspects in Youth. It will act as an evidence-based knowledge hub in the field of digital education and youth, and channel knowledge in the area of its mandate into programme and policy development.
Key activities and initiatives
- Support for NAs’ digital strategy process (templates, tools and workshops)
- One-pagers and materials supporting the horizontal digital priority
- Expertise for TCAs/NETs/SNACs/LTAs related to digital transformation (e.g. AI in education)
- Capacity building for NA staff and webinars on the digital priority
- Examples of good practices in digital transformation and a framework to identify best practices
Resources for the National Agencies to support the implementation of the Digital Priority in the programmes. Contact us or see our website for more resources: saltodigital.eu
SALTO Digital’s Web-site: https://saltodigital.eu
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Digital Priority
The ongoing digital transformation continuously impacts our societies and economies. It creates new ways to learn, train, work and actively participate in society, entertain, and communicate. Digital skills and competences are the cornerstone of social inclusion, active citizenship, employability, productivity, security, and growth.
Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects can play an important role in developing individual and institutional digital readiness, capacity and skills, thus offering everyone an equal opportunity to thrive in life, find employment, and be engaged citizens.
The programmes contribute to more inclusive and cohesive, greener, and digitally fit societies. Europe’s innovation capacity, developing digital skills and competences and skills in forward-looking fields, such as combating climate change, clean energy, artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data analysis, is essential for Europe's future sustainable growth and cohesion.
Digital transformation is especially important for education and training, youth work and sport, as a systemic process of change where technology is used to enable new processes and methods, with the goal to increase quality and inclusiveness of education, training and youth work. Purposeful use of digital, AI and other emerging technologies can provide new learning and communication possibilities, enhance information access, and allow for modern pedagogical approaches to enhance the quality of teaching and learning, in both formal and non-formal settings.