Every year on 5 October we celebrate International Education Day and reflect on the ways learning is essential to society. This year, we focus on digital empowerment, lifelong learning, and connecting digital skills to the marketplace.
This day is also a moment to remember that education should be lifelong, inclusive, and accessible to everyone: in a digital world, the digital skills have become the new language of interaction.
The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform is the unique reference point for high-quality information, initiatives, and resources about digital skills across Europe. It helps citizens, institutions, and industries to build the digital skills they need.
How can you use the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform?
Whether you are searching for opportunities, hoping to improve your digital skills, or aiming to share an initiative, the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform is a source of practical tools for learning, connecting, and acting, where you can:
- Assess your digital skills using self-evaluation tools that help identify your strengths and areas for growth.
- Explore learning opportunities, from beginner-friendly digital literacy to advanced AI and cybersecurity training.
- Discover career pathways in Europe’s growing digital job market.
- Share your training programmes and educational resources with a Europe-wide community.
- Learn from best practices in digital education and innovation.
- Join pledges and coalitions that commit to developing digital skills in your region or sector.
- Consult data and reports to guide evidence-based decisions on digital education.
- Promote inclusion initiatives that close gender and regional gaps.
- Support or launch national coalitions to align national digital strategies with EU goals.
Digital skills are essential skills
Coding, data literacy, understanding artificial intelligence, staying safe online – every new skill we achieve gives us an expanded perspective on the digital world and enables us to take an active role in it.
On Education Day, we are grateful to everyone who makes that possible, from the facilitators and learners who inspire and adapt every day to the policymakers and innovators who open doors and push boundaries.