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On 20 December 2022, the third MORE co-creation event organised by partner ITSFA. At the event, 8 VET trainers with several years of experience both in training and digital skills fostering with similar targets, gathered at ITSFA's premises to participate on this session organised to extract valuable insights. Firstly, the current status of the project was presented to the attendees, as well as the different points that would be discussed during the session, with the following main objectives: •             Collect cocreation inputs on training material developed and uploaded •             Evaluate training contents and structure developed and its suitability for the user •             Test the user experience in the training section •             Confirm that learning deliverables to target needs •             Check that training solutions are effectively based on trainees Subsequently, the co-creation team has provided valuable feedbacks on the material uploaded on the Project platform and presented to the user, confirming that it is appropriate and useful for training needs of the target represented by Rural women entrepreneurs...

As an international initiative co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, the DISK project aims at nurturing seniors’ digital skills as leverage for social inclusion, emancipation and active aging. Towards the end of the project, participating organizations compiled and consolidated detailed Policy Recommendations stemming from the implementation’s experience and conceived to support policy makers in operationalizing new interventions addressing from a policy perspective challenge and opportunities in the same fields addressed by the project. Although the share of older people who use the internet has increased steadily, older people are still among the largest group affected by digital inequalities: digital inclusion of older people has been recognized as a pressing issue on many fronts, and has to go beyond merely providing the technological infrastructure. Strengthening digital skills has therefore become an integral part of national digital transformation strategies. Special attention should be paid to the development of digital skills as one of the main factors for accelerating economic growth. To this extent,...

As an international initiative co-financed by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, the DISK project aims at nurturing seniors’ digital skills as leverage for social inclusion, emancipation and active aging. Towards the end of the project, participating organizations compiled and consolidated detailed Guidelines stemming from the implementation’s experience and conceived to support professionals, Adult Education organizations and other representatives of the lifelong learning ecosystem in replicating and implementing DISK-inspired initiatives within their ecosystem of practice and in similar learning environments tackled by the project. The guidelines represent a sort of operational legacy of the project, while facilitating the use (and usability) of the training deliverables produced at project level by other organizations interested in replicating DISK-like training practices and programmes. DISK Training resources are stored in the DISK Training platform, which is accessible from PCs and laptops, tablets, smart phones. The platform includes all the materials developed by the different partners within DISK project, organized in section and subsection (i.e., modules and...