The last 2 years of the European Digital Skills Awards (EDSA) have been nothing short of a success. With over 500 applications and a total of 11 winning projects from both editions, the Digital Skills & Jobs Platform is thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of the awards.
Europe’s digital skills in 2025: 5 distinct award categories
EDSA 2025 will build on the success of these past 2 years to reach an ever-widening audience and activate current and future stakeholders around a large-scale celebration of best practices in skills development throughout Europe. The 2025 award categories are:
- Digital Upskilling @ Work: initiatives focused on digital upskilling and reskilling professionals in various sectors and of SMEs, facilitating job placements for ICT professionals at all levels.
- Digital Skills for Education: projects specifically aimed at digital upskilling for teachers and/or students, VET and school administrations.
- Inclusion in the Digital World: initiatives building digital training, media literacy programs for groups of persons that experience a higher risk of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and violence, including, but not limited to, ethnic minorities, migrants, people with disabilities, isolated elderly people and children, marginalised, hard to reach and high-risk groups, and initiatives to foster digital accessibility skills.
- Women in ICT Careers: Projects aimed at increasing the representation of women in ICT professions, offering digital upskilling opportunities for women in the workforce, and encouraging young women to pursue careers in ICT.
- Cybersecurity Skills: Designed for cybersecurity skills development initiatives for citizens and SMEs.
The applications for the 2025 edition of the EDSA are open from 03 June to 15 July 2025. You can apply now by completing this application form.
Finalists will be announced during a special online event in October 2025.
We invite everyone – from public, private, academic, research and/or training centres, schools, SMEs or large corporates, EU-funded project consortia, public administrations, NGOs and citizen initiatives – that have either initiated or completed projects, directed at fostering the adoption of digital skills in 1 of the 5 categories of the Awards, to apply.
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