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What is Telecentre-EuropeA Europe Wide Membership Association
A Europe-wide movement that brings digital opportunity and equity to all European citizens, improving their quality of life, employability and social and civic participation
A membership organization that increases the effectiveness of telecentres to provide citizens expertise in digital technologies by fostering knowledge sharing, capacity building and advocacy
Why SkillageAssessing youth’s digital skills for jobs
Telecentres help new generations to channel their digital capital towards an increasing economic participation
Problems: Youth unemployment and lack of digital skills for jobs
Start somewhere: be aware of your skills and improve the areas where you’re behind
90% of new jobs require digital skills
What is Skillagewww.skillage.eu
Online application that assesses youths’ digital skills for getting a job and for keeping that job15 questions quiz drawn randomly from pool of 100* questions - aligned to DIGCOMP Framework for Developing and understanding Digital competence in Europe)Available in 16 European languages, covering 23 countries
What is SkillageThe 5 categories
Employability
Productivity
Communications
Social Media
Content management and safety
process of getting a job, from searching to applying, interviewing, and the first day at a new job
save time, be more productive, accomplish more tasks and reach more deadlines
tools for communications - tricks, shortcuts and pitfalls
how social media influences and affects jobs
protect yourself and the computer while online, file management habits, ability to simplify work
What is SkillageThe questions
You are asked to find duplicate customers records in a database with thousands of records. What’s the best action to take?
Create a tableCreate a queryCreate a formCreate a report
Creating a query will let you look for duplicate records, as well as carry out many other actions on the data held in the database. A table is used to store the data, a form can be used to input new data, or edit the data in the database, and creating a report displays selected data for printing or analysis.
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What is Skillage
What is SkillageThe user report
At the end of the test, a report shows your broad levels of digital skills
It also provides more specific advice on where you can go for help to improve their ICT skills
How it is usedNational examples
BELGIUM
Skillage is used by Interface3 in telecentres with young girls as an entertaining assessment of their ICT skills, but also as a learning exercise that will further encourage them to attend trainings and pursue ICT careers.
LATVIA
In Latvia, LIKTA encourages young people to take the Skillage test before they engage in the learning pathway of the Employment Toolkit. Using Skillage as a teaser, LIKTA manages to motivate more young people to use the Employment toolkit in telecentres.
ROMANIA EOS promotes Skillage in schools. Besides the formal tests, professors use Skillage in the ICT classes at the beginning and at the end of the courses, to assess the progress of their students.
What data it generatesAnalysis of data and reports
Skillage enables current, comparable data on digital skills levels in different thematic areas to be able to target support effectively
Over 23k people taken Skillage so far
Average score: 57%
2 thirds of respondents are aged 16 to 24
Who helped so farThank you!
How to work togetherCall for partners
Designed and developed on Windows Azure as a customizable, updatable tool for multiple purposes
We look for partners interested to adapt the tool, translate and promote it
We look for partners that can support the development of Skillage
