The primary school Keune in the small city Forst organized in cooperation with the Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation, SDC) a five-day training for their young students during the ALL DIGITAL Week 2019. During the training, the children learned how to make music with tablets, how to control a computer game with dough and cables and…

I n order to disseminate the ALL DIGITAL Week, Stiftung Digital Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation, SDC) contacted more than 6.000 organisations such as digital competence centres, retirement homes, care and meeting places for disadvantaged groups all over Germany. These organisations responded with 87 events and workshops that were promoted on the…

The European Youth Event is organised every second year in Strasbourg by the European Parliament to engage young people in the processes of the European Union. This year, I was invited as a board member of ALL DIGITAL to be an idea giver in the session “Forever Young: Survive me if you can”.…

The Erasmus+ project "Digital Skills for You(th)" of the Stiftung Digitale Chancen has published its report on the framework conditions for training offers in digital youth work.

An important result of the survey: the professionals confirm that…

“From dial to touchscreen - Lead-in to the media use of tablets, smartphones and computer”

By Annabella Korn, Dortmund

This course focuses on introducing different kinds of electronic devices such as tablets, smartphones and computer. The intention is to show barrier-free settings as well as a…

My name is Katrin Borg. I study rehabilitation science at Technical University Dortmund, and the the ALL DIGITAL Week campaign is part of my studies in 2018.

Together with my colleague. I facilitated the course “What does my child do online – an easy introduction to the world wide web”…

For the sixth time, Stiftung Digitale Chancen (SDC) was the German national partner for the ALL DIGITAL Week. SDC led the campaign with the support from Scientific Institute of the Technical University of Dortmund and 21st Century Competence Centre. 

With the tagline “The ALL DIGITAL Week is for everybody” SDC strove for all people in Germany to be part…

Levato is a training organisation that is supporting computer inexperienced people in using computer and Internet for many years. The team of Levato answers everyday questions about PC, Internet, phone and warns on a weekly basis about the current spam and other threats in the network. Around 600 easily understandable explanatory movies about computer, Internet and smartphone…

Language can be a barrier especially for newly arrived migrants and refugees. So why not teach them an international language like coding. This is the idea of a two days event during this year’s Get Online Week that had been organized by the association “Wissen macht spaß” (knowledge is fun) and Stiftung Digitale Chancen.

On March the 15^th and 16^th…

The enhancement of employability is one big pillar of the Get Online Week 2016. Therefore the Stiftung Digitale Chancen collaborated with the youth welfare office in Dortmund to organize the workshop “YouRock – find your strength” for pupils. The workshop promoted the platform YouRock.Jobs and shows the pupils how to present their strength to future employers.

YouRock.Jobs is a European social network that is dedicated…

The Internet is not an exclusive club for the younger generation, also for senior citizens, the digital world has to offer many advantages. Since 2012, Stiftung Digitale Chancen and E-Plus Gruppe collaborate in a project that provides Tablet PCs for senior citizens. Here, retirement homes are equipped for a period of four to six weeks with tablets, so their habitants or visitors…

As part of a "boot camp" of the initiative BG3000 students from Bonn Bad Godesberg get to know the Internet platform YouRock (www.yourock.jobs). During the workshops of Stiftung Digitale Chancen, the students become aware of their own strengths and get fit for the journey from school to training. They learn to show potential employers what they are capable of. YouRock is a European job portal and social network that is dedicated to the employability of…

A primary school in Berlin, Kreuzberg starts today a new offer: programming games easily yourself with SCRATCH! With SCRATCH! Children learn programming by combining program modules, so-called "blocks", in a script window.

"Learning in the 21st century means to provide children with creative resources that allow them to develop solutions to the tasks of their future," says the professional, author and conceptualist Norbert Kerkhey who will supervise today´s event. "SCRATCH! is a…

The new launched project Online4EDU introduces online collaboration tools in education by providing a blended learning course for teachers. Five partner organizations and members of Telecentre Europe from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Ireland are involved in creating and establishing a training that complies with the ECDL-Test standards for online collaboration tools.…

On April 8th 2014 about one hundred international stakeholders from the area of children and youth work have attended the final conference of Future Summit SocialWeb-SocialWork in Berlin. The goal was to discuss how the influence of social work can ensure the online safety of children and youth at risk.

During the event, the findings of the project were…

After the first step is done- mainly getting people online, people need to learn how to effectively use the Internet for their own purposes. That is why the new German-wide campaign "Smart Hero Award" aims at supporting people who use social media to promote their voluntary work.

In spring…

This year’s Get Online Week was a great occasion for Stiftung Digitale Chancen to launch a new competition in Germany. Institutions and organizations who work with senior citizens can now apply to receive ten to eight tablet computers to be used during four weeks and , they can keep two of these after for good!

Together with…

The Internet is not for everyone in Germany a natural instrument. Many people do still not use its advantages or even know how to handle PCs. Particularly affected are senior citizens, who never en­countered the new technology in their vocational life and so some of them are now afraid to use it. And yet the internet could have for the elderly high benefits and mean improvement…