From the network

• ALL DIGITAL launches the ALL DIGITAL Weeks 2023 campaign: Enhance your digital skills!

  Brussels, 21 February 2023 – For the 14th year in a row, in 2023, ALL DIGITAL, the European association representing networks of digital competence centres and stakeholders, will run the ALL DIGITAL Weeks, the annual digital inclusion and empowerment campaign involving centres, libraries, community centres, schools and other venues across Europe – which over time helped almost 1.5 million people to get online for the first time or enhance their digital skills.
  In 2023 the campaign will be […]

• Joint Policy Brief – “Investing in our Future: Seven EU economic governance reforms”

  Finance Watch co-published a civil society briefing on how to ensure a reformed European economic governance framework supports the EU’s goals and helps tackling Europe’s multiple crises.
  Europe faces serious economic, environmental and social challenges that require reforms and investment. But EU actions to tackle these challenges are constrained by Europe’s own economic governance framework, which has grown overly complex and out of date over the years. The Fiscal Matters coalition, a group of NGOs, unions and think tanks of which […]

• ESU’s contribution to the European Year of Skills

  The European Students’ Union (ESU) welcomes the proposal of the European
  Commission to designate 2023 as the European Year of Skills (EYS), looking
  forward to ensuring that the designation would not only increase momentum
  for the importance of skills and skills sets in a fast-changing society, but would
  also bring forward key developments in the sector, with a focus on the
  essential role of education and training.
  Read their suggestions and proposals to take students’ needs into account

• BEST project results: Delivering solidarity messages through postcards & advocating for Global Civic Education

  The project ‘Building European Solidarity Today’ (BEST), co-financed by the Erasmus+ program, has successfully closed its third European edition (2020-2022). Coordinated by Center for Peace Studies (Croatia), BEST has also been implemented in France (by La Ligue de l’Enseignement), Spain (by Cives Foundation), Poland (by School with Class Foundation), Italy (by Arci) and Slovenia (by Humanitas). 
  The initiative was initially imagined and designed in 2002 by the Ligue de l’Enseignement in France to deal with the rise of racism and […]

• ESU – Survey on Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Academic Integrity from a Student Perspective

  The European Students Union (ESU)  recently published a report on the topic of academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and academic integrity developed in the framework of the “Academic Freedom – Time to Act!” project, which aims to deepen the knowledge on defending, monitoring and promoting Academic Freedom in Higher Education in Europe.
  The report is based on the results of a survey conducted between May and September 2022 with the participation of 645 students from 30 countries. Since the debate around […]

• Applications for OECD Youthwise 2023 are open!

  Youthwise, the OECD’s Youth Advisory Board, is made up of brilliant young people aged 18‒30. They bring their perspectives and ideas to the OECD, while also learning about the work of the Organisation and international policy making. In 2022, Youthwise members helped to inform policy debates on issues that affect them first hand, from high-level OECD events to COP27. Highlights include exchanging with Ministers from OECD member countries at the 2022 Ministerial Council Meeting and organising an event […]