The project Building Digital Competencies for Citizen Participation and Engagement (DigitalCitizen) is funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme. The Consortium implementing this project is a group of highly reputable academic and industrial partners from across Europe. The Consortium consists of universities, research institutes, and private companies – leaders in their respective fields, with strong track record of research excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
DigitalCitizen project empowers citizens in digital competencies, including legal literacy (knowing and asserting digital rights and obligations), data literacy (interpretation, use, and protection of data), and protection literacy (learning resilience techniques and capability to self-defense by developing a 4D flipped classroom-inspired system that has micro-learning components and interactive mini-games to present the learning material in engaging, bite-sized components).
The project activities include:
- Upskilling the HE community on the three pillars of digital citizenship (digital, legal, and protection literacy) with learning material, an innovative learning framework that incorporates micro-learning components, and interactive mini-games;
- Public events, hackathons, and online training sessions on various industry-related digital citizen skills;
- Establishment of online communities to promote the importance of digital citizenship, advocacy, and engagement in policy-making.
DigitalCitizen project will ensure an innovative learning framework that can be fully integrated into the higher education system to make learning more engaging and will support educators and students with specialized training to develop critical thinking alongside complex problem-solving and digital competencies and increase and sustain their employability.