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Digital skills to improve SMEs' international competitiveness

2019-1-IT01-KA102-0073382019VET learner and staff mobilityfinalized
Countries: IT · Grant: €633,798.9
ICT - new technologies - digital competencesEnterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)Recognition, transparency, certification

Objectives

These are the main objectives the project wanted to achieve: - Training offer expansion and renewal, in order to equip students with the innovative skills that companies require; - Improvement of the teaching method in terms of linguistic preparation; - Enlargement of the pool of international mobility beneficiaries, involving students with special needs and fewer opportunities; - Development of initiatives aimed at educating to active European citizenship, legality, interculturality and democracy; - Dissemination of good practices for the certification of skills acquired in international mobility paths, through ECVET tools; - Creation of profitable relationships with international economic systems; - Support for the economy and employment growth in the territories involved in the project.

Background

DigitalSME project is developed in provincial contexts such as Lodi, Cremona, Reggio Emilia and Verona, distinguished by an entrepreneurial fabric mainly composed by SMEs with a strong industrial vocation and extremely dynamic on foreign markets. These characteristics cause a significant mismatch of 4.0 skills: companies are increasingly looking for figures able to manage and apply the necessary technologies in order to face the digital transformation and remain competitive in the international economic system.

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