CFPs: Assessment of Digital Skills and Competences

Deadline: 27 May 2025

The European Commission is inviting projects which focuses on the assessment of individual students’ digital skills at primary and/or secondary level including VET, the end of the secondary education cycle, and explore the feasibility of assessment practices that are explicit about the level of digital skills, including by referencing it clearly to DigComp, in a variety of contexts (e.g. if digital skills are developed through a specific subject or in a transversal way).

These projects will allow to identify factors and criteria which are necessary for developing comprehensive and robust assessment methodology for digital skills, thus supporting the creation of a progression model to assess digital skills.

Funding Information

The estimated available call budget is EUR 32 000 000.
Digital education: Assessment of digital skills and competence- EUR 13 000 000
Projects should normally range between 24 and 36 months.

Eligible Activities

Methodologically robust research and analysis leading to an assessment framework for digital skills;
Development of questionnaires or structured assessment methods for evaluating digital skills;
Implementation of assessment methods for digital skills and analysis of the results;
Design and pilot of assessment frameworks for digital skills which are also referenced to the latest version of DigComp;
Transfer of innovative methods or tools (across countries, policy sectors or target groups) for the assessment of digital skills;
A Mapping of assessment methods and policies in a variety of contexts and in different MS;
a reassessment of monitoring systems: mappings of, or proposal for innovative monitoring and evaluation frameworks and methodologies to gauge and evaluate the effectiveness of the assessment methodologies;
Analysis of transferability of the project results and sustainability of its results after the end of the project (including in other sectors of education and training);
Dissemination and networking events (sectoral or cross sectoral) aiming for further exposure of the project work and results and for increasing possibility for transferability.

Expected Impact

A framework for assessing individual student skills attainment levels;
A repository of items (i.e. questions or question areas) to assess digital skills;
A methodology for the usability of the assessment framework in a diversity of contexts (e.g. regardless of when/how digital skills are developed) and levels and sectors of education (primary, secondary, VET). The projects under this Topic will also consider how/if the outputs are transferable to other sectors of education and training.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) active in the fields of education and training, research and innovation or in the world of work.
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  - Erasmus+ Programme Countries:
    - EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  - non-EU countries:
    - listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Erasmus+ Programme
    - for higher education institutions (HEIs) established in Erasmus+ Programme Countries: be holders of the ECHE certificate (Erasmus Charter for Higher Education).
  - Organisations from third countries not associated to the Programme can only be involved as associated partners (not as beneficiaries and affiliated entities).
Exception: organisations from Belarus and the Russian Federation are not eligible to participate in this action.