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01
Oct

Generation Code: Born at the Library is going online this year!

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This interactive exhibition showcases the top innovative digital exhibits from public libraries across the EU. Europe’s 65,000 public libraries are a uniquely accessible space for users (both children and adults) to improve their digital skills. In the EU, over 2,3 million people a year attend a digital literacy course in their library, learning anything from […]

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26
Sep

DigiEduHack community event

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The Digital Education Action Plan inspired all the free DigiEduHack community events scheduled from September to October 2020 in online mode. These events are sources of inspiration for experimentation in digital educations, especially during these months – because of the pandemic – where new experimental online learning solutions have implemented. These appointments include a line-up […]

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19
Aug

DigiEduHack 2020 is open for registration!

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Author: Altheo Valentini (EGIna) The DigiEduHack 2020 edition has been launched and interested organizations can register to become hosting venues of online hackathons, physical hackathons or blended models! The next series of Digital Education Hackathons will take place 12-13 November 2020. The DigiEduHack 2020 is the annual meeting point for educational stakeholders of all backgrounds […]

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03
Jul

Getting digital at the library

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Author: Tiana Zignani (PL2030) There are 65 000 public libraries across Europe and every year, 100 million people in the EU visit one of these. Over the years, public libraries across Europe have adapted their offer to the needs of a digital age making these one of the first port of call for skills development […]

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19
Jun

Social Hackademy Training Course Outlines are completed!

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In the first few months of the #HackAD project we developed three Training Course Outlines which serve as a guide and a plan to implement the Social Hackademy Training Courses with participants from disadvantaged backgrounds. Topics for the three Training Courses had to be about something which is interesting to young people and gives them […]

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29
Apr

Online hacking for everyone… discover the next online digital co-creation marathons!

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Author: Altheo Valentini (EGIna) Over the last couple of months, thousands of creative initiatives for connecting people online have been launched all across the Globe, most of them proving how the Internet has the power to create new ways of cooperating, learning or simply having fun. EUvsVirus Hackathon (link is external) has included all these […]

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11
Feb

#hackAD aims, objectives and kick-off activities

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Our aims and objectives In many European countries, the educational system is still not fully adapted to the use of new technologies and very often youngsters passively use digital content and tools. Different reports (e.g. NESET Reports and PISA data) on disadvantaged youth mention that this is a digital gap of a second degree: youngsters […]

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15
Jan

The HackAD project has started!

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The Social Hackademy project wants to foster digital skills and competences of youth at risk of social and digital inclusion by developing and piloting an innovative methodology, which targets youth workers and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in digital skills, specifically modules on mobile app development, web design, and visual and graphic design. They will then apply […]

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