The project had four main objectives. First, it aimed to strengthen the practical digital skills of nonprofit staff, volunteers and adult learners on topics with immediate operational value, such as forms, databases, automation, information structuring and problem-solving. Second, it sought to build a hybrid learning pathway combining needs analysis, online training, webinars, peer exchange and hands-on experimentation through a transnational hackathon. Third, the project aimed to enable participants to design simple digital solutions themselves, adapted to their own organisational contexts, in order to increase autonomy and reduce dependence on external providers. Finally, it aimed to produce reusable resources, methods and lessons learned that could be transferred to other actors in adult education and the social economy across Europe.
We applied for this project because we identified a clear gap between the growing digital needs of small nonprofit organisations and their actual capacity to address them independently. While many of these organisations were already using basic digital tools, they often lacked the practical skills needed for automation, no-code approaches, data structuring and the design of simple internal workflows. The project therefore aimed to provide accessible adult learning opportunities enabling staff, volunteers and adults in transition to solve concrete organisational problems through useful digital solutions. It also responded to a recurring challenge in this sector: high staff turnover and the resulting loss of knowledge within organisations. For this reason, the training was designed not only to build individual skills, but also to remain accessible beyond the project’s lifetime and to support the transfer of knowledge between people within the same organisation.