Apply for European Digital Skills Awards 2024

The initiative aims to recognize and celebrate the outstanding work of organizations throughout Europe that have contributed to the advancement of digital skills through their projects, programs and initiatives.

They invite all types of organisations – whether public, private, academic, research and/or training centres, schools, SMEs or large corporates, EU-funded project consortia, public administrations, NGOs and citizen initiatives – that have either initiated or completed projects or initiatives aimed at fostering the adoption of digital skills in one of the 5 categories of the Awards, to apply for consideration.

Award Categories

• The applications can be presented for only one of the following categories:
  • Digital Upskilling@Work(digital upskilling initiatives in various professional sectors, facilitation of job placement of ICT professionals of all levels, upskilling and reskilling of SMEs)
  • Digital Skills for Education(projects specifically aimed at digital upskilling for teacher and/or students and VET)
  • Inclusion in the digital world(digital training and media literacy initiatives specifically aimed at groups of persons that experience a higher risk of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and violence, including, but not limited to, ethnic minorities, migrants, people with disabilities, isolated elderly people and children, marginalised, hard to reach and high-risk groups, and initiatives to foster digital accessibility skills)
  • Women in ICT Careers(projects specifically aimed at increasing the number of women ICT professionals or for the digital upskilling of women in the workforce or younger women in ICT)
  • Cybersecurity Skills(Cybersecurity skills development initiatives for citizens and SMEs)
• If your project or initiative touches various categories, you must choose only one of them for the application.

Award Information

• The winners of each category will receive the following:
  • Mention and presence in the online event to announce the winners;
  • Publication of their initiative/project on the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform and promotion on the social media accounts;
  • A trophy and certificate;
  • An invitation to participate in the awards ceremony in Brussels, with travel and accommodation offered by the organizers.

Eligibility Criteria

• The project or initiative must an ongoing project which has already reached at least half of its set milestones.
• The applicant can be an accomplished project that has ended no earlier than January 2023.
• Projects that have already been submitted and have been elected as winners in the EDSA23 edition cannot re-apply.
• The project or initiative must be implemented in at least one EU Member State. Projects that are also implemented in non-EU countries can apply, but have to demonstrate their impact in EU Member States.

For more Information, visit Digital Skills & Jobs Platform.