DigiWELL project aimed to empower adults with the necessary competencies for digital wellbeing and digital security for enabling the establishment of digital resilience for all. At the same time, the project aimed to create learning opportunities for adults so that the competences required for digital resilience could be accessible to all. More specifically, the project consortium wanted to achieve: -Equipping adults with necessary competencies for digital resilience -Facilitating adults' access to the possibilities of digital world -Creating learning opportunities for adults to make required competences for digital resilience could be accessible to all -Developing a methodology, training program and materials, and an OER platform facilitating building digital resilience. The project aimed to achieve those above in three levels: 1) At systemic level -increased awareness of digital transformation and digital resilience among adults 2) At (participant) organization level -the use of digital resilience building as an innovative approach for addressing adults 3) At direct beneficiary level -enhanced understanding and competences for digital resilience.
We applied for DigiWELL project primarily for two reasons. 1) We wanted to support the digital resilience of adults so that their digital wellbeing could be ensured, they could responsibly and comfortably use digital technologies, and they could be endowed with required competences for digital security. 2) We wanted to empower adults to keep up with the digital transformation and to facilitate this group’s access to the opportunities of the digital world. The needs we have addressed are “the need for digital security”, “the need for digital well-being” and “the need to avoid digital fatigue”. Considering that the use of digital technologies is integral part of our lives as after Covid-19, adults need to use technology mindfully and responsibly. This refers to the fact that they need to have competences to be able to take digital security measures and to protect them from digital risks (digital security); to protect themselves from the negative impacts of technology and to use technology mindfully (digital wellbeing); and to eliminate their digital fatigue and to empower them to deal with the gradually increasing use of technology (digital fatigue).