All the partners at the time of the design started from what was published in the EU Commission Report, that is, that Europe has only 56% of the population with basic digital skills and just 9.8 million ICT specialists. We believed that it is necessary to intervene using a method and a system and we set this as our objective, because we are convinced that the digital skills gap risks widening existing inequalities. With the rapid evolution of technology, people without adequate digital skills could have difficulties in obtaining a job or could be forced to accept lower-paid jobs, as well as having difficulties in exercising their social rights and citizenship in general. Given the Digital Education Plan promoted by the EU, we tried to teach students how to use digital platforms to implement their digital skills in formal education, also to improve the digital skills of students and teachers and provide digital infrastructures/resources for learning. Another objective was to promote digital inclusion, also to improve the digital skills of vulnerable groups.
In Europe, there is a gender gap in the world of digital technologies and the partnership has decided to address the issue believing that it is possible to change this trend in order to prepare the future of the new generations. The World Economic Forum has declared that 65% of students who are starting primary school will do a job that we do not even know exists today. The future of work, therefore, will be totally revolutionized and technology will be the protagonist, and therefore we must put the ability of the entire population to use technologies without gender differences at the center of the development of Europe. This has led us to design this path with the aim of improving digital knowledge and approaching the technologies connected to it in the entire student population and in particular among girls. The International Telecommunication Union declared that the people in the world who have access to the Internet has grown, but that there is still a third of the world's population who do not have access to the network, of which 96% live in developing countries. The phenomenon of the digital divide is not only determined by an economic factor, but also and above all by a cultural factor.