DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in Europe.

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    Martine Grosjean
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Author(s): 
Anusca Ferrari - JRC IPTS
Year of publication: 
2013

With the 2006 European Recommendation on Key Competences,1 Digital Competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union. Digital Competence can be broadly defined as the confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society. Digital competence is a transversal key competence which, as such, enables us to acquire other key competences (e.g. language, mathematics, learning to learn, cultural awareness). It is related to many of the 21st Century skills which should be acquired by all citizens, to ensure their active participation in society and the economy.

This report is part of a project on Digital Competence, launched by the Information Society Unit at JRC-IPTS2 on behalf of DG Education and Culture. Its overall aim is to contribute to the better understanding and development of Digital Competence in Europe. The project, which was carried out between January 2011 and December 2012,3 had the following objectives:

  • To identify the key components of Digital Competence in terms of the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to be digitally competent;
  • To develop Digital Competence descriptors that will feed a conceptual framework and/or guidelines that can be validated at European level, taking into account relevant frameworks currently available;
  • To propose a roadmap for the possible use and revision of a Digital Competence framework and descriptors of Digital Competences for all levels of learners.

The project aims to achieve these objectives in collaboration and interaction with stakeholders at European level.
This report contributes to the third and final work package of the project, by proposing a framework for the development of Digital Competence.
Previous reports on the data collection phases can be consulted at the following webpages: