About Us
The world of work is changing profoundly. There are a lot of reports and researches showing that digital skills are closely connected with employability, especially when speaking of young people entering the labor market. Also taking into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now more than ever essential to have (labor market related) digital skills, being prepared to face all kinds of challenges, such as pandemics.
Thus, the aim of DigiGo is to support the acquisition of digital skills by VET students, during their apprenticeships and at the same time to decrease the skills mismatch of VET students when starting apprenticeships.
Main Objective
Promote the digitalisation of VET apprenticeships, but also to face skills mismatch between the needed digital competences in the labor market for VET students
Specific Objectives
- Enhance the digital competences of company trainers and mentors
- Support VET teachers and trainers and company trainers and mentors in their development of apprenticeship programmes (traditional and virtual) to enhance digital competences of students
- Train company trainers and mentors on how to enhance digital competences of apprentices in the workplace, also through smart working
- Raise awareness of VET teachers and trainers, on the possibility to use apprenticeships for the development of VET students’ digital skills
- Engage more companies in providing quality apprenticeships that enhance digital skills of students
To reach the project’s objectives, DigiGo is focused not only in the skills that apprentices lack, but also in those that company trainers need to acquire. The project is innovative as it combines the promotion of apprenticeships and work based learning, with the need to support the development of digital skills, directly connected to employability.