Telecentre-Europe is a Europe-wide membership association that aims to bring digital opportunities and improve quality of life, employability, and civic participation for European citizens. It fosters knowledge sharing, capacity building, and advocacy among telecentres to increase their effectiveness in providing digital skills training. Skillage is an online application developed by Telecentre-Europe that assesses youths' digital skills in areas like employability, productivity, communications, social media, and content management. It provides a user report on their broad digital skill levels and specific advice for improvement. National telecentre organizations in countries like Belgium, Latvia, and Romania have used Skillage to motivate youth to develop digital job skills.

2. What is Telecentre-Europe
A Europe Wide Membership Association
A Europe-wide movement that brings
digital opportunity and equity to all
European citizens, improving their quality
of life, employability and social and civic
participation
A membership organization that increases
the effectiveness of telecentres to provide
citizens expertise in digital technologies by
fostering knowledge sharing, capacity
building and advocacy

3. Why Skillage
Assessing youth’s digital skills for jobs
Telecentres help new generations to channel their digital
capital towards an increasing economic participation
Problems: Youth unemployment and lack of digital skills
for jobs
Start somewhere: be aware of your skills and improve the
areas where you’re behind
90
%
of new jobs
require digital
skills

4. What is Skillage
www.skillage.eu
Online application that assesses youths’
digital skills for getting a job and for keeping
that job
15 questions quiz drawn randomly from
pool of 100* questions - aligned to
DIGCOMP Framework for Developing and
understanding Digital competence in
Europe)
Available in 16 European languages,
covering 23 countries

5. What is Skillage
The 5 categories
Employability
Productivity
process of getting a job, from searching to applying,
interviewing, and the first day at a new job
save time, be more productive, accomplish more tasks
and reach more deadlines
tools for communications - tricks, shortcuts and pitfalls
Communications
Social Media
how social media influences and affects jobs
Content management and safety
protect yourself and the computer while online, file
management habits, ability to simplify work

6. What is Skillage
The questions
You are asked to find duplicate customers records in a database with
thousands of records. What’s the best action to take?
Create a table
Create a query ✓
Create a form
Create a report
Creating a query will let you look for duplicate records, as well as carry out many
other actions on the data held in the database. A table is used to store the data, a
form can be used to input new data, or edit the data in the database, and creating
a report displays selected data for printing or analysis.

7. What is Skillage

8. What is Skillage
The user report
At the end of the test, a
report shows your broad
levels of digital skills
It also provides more
specific advice on where
you can go for help to
improve their ICT skills

9. How it is used
National examples
BELGIUM
LATVIA
ROMANIA
Skillage is used by Interface3
in telecentres with young
girls as an entertaining
assessment of their ICT skills,
but also as a learning
exercise that will further
encourage them to attend
trainings and pursue ICT
careers.
In Latvia, LIKTA encourages
young people to take the
Skillage test before they
engage in the learning
pathway of the Employment
Toolkit. Using Skillage as a
teaser, LIKTA manages to
motivate more young people
to use the Employment
toolkit in telecentres.
EOS promotes Skillage in
schools. Besides the formal
tests, professors use Skillage
in the ICT classes at the
beginning and at the end of
the courses, to assess the
progress of their students.

10. What data it generates
Analysis of data and reports
Skillage enables current, comparable data on
digital skills levels in different thematic areas
to be able to target support effectively
Over 23k people taken Skillage so far
Average score: 57%
2 thirds of respondents are aged 16 to 24

11. Who helped so far
Thank you!

12. How to work together
Call for partners
Designed and developed on Windows Azure
as a customizable, updatable tool for multiple
purposes
We look for partners interested to adapt the
tool, translate and promote it
We look for partners that can support the
development of Skillage

13. Contact us
Thank you!
www.skillage.eu
skillage@telecentre-europe.org
Laurentiu Bunescu
laurentiu.bunescu@telecentre-europe.org