Digital Skills Development
Welcome to our Digital Skills Development Projects page! Here, we spotlight innovative initiatives designed to enhance digital skills and competencies for diverse groups including youth, learners, trainers, the unemployed, and marginalized communities. Our projects focus on delivering future-proof training through dynamic web-based tools, ensuring that all participants are equipped with the essential digital knowledge and skills needed for success in today’s digital world. Explore our range of projects and discover how we’re helping individuals and communities thrive in an increasingly digital society.
The PENAPPS project built on the success of the VETCOP project, that created an online platform to help Practice Enterprises engage in international trade. This platform reflected the idea of the digital single market and included three parts: a B2B Marketplace, a Banking System, and a Login Server.
The PENAPPS project added new features to the existing platform. These included an e-commerce module, a Web Application, a Messaging and Notifications system to link different parts of the software, and a Monitoring and Ticketing system to keep everything running smoothly. Also a feature called Worlds, which lets Practice Enterprises operate in their own virtual “world” that can adjust time to fit their learning stage.
Consortium:
International Business College IB (DK – Lead)
PEN Worldwide (DE)
Zuef (DE)
REEP Euro Ent’Ent (FR)
Helvartis (CH)
The VETCOP project developed an online trade platform for Practice Enterprises. It aimed to improve employability in the trade sector. This platform allows for international collaboration through ICT-based market simulation.
The project’s main goal was to enable Practice Enterprises to engage in international trade. Users can trade goods and services, make payments through realistic banking systems, and gain skills needed in international trade and commerce.
Partners from Denmark, France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany formed the consortium to unify the Practice Enterprise concept. The platform’s development mixed traditional and agile methodologies. It provided a dynamic tool to align training with international trade skills and work-based learning principles.
Consortium:
International Business College IB (DK – Lead)
PEN Worldwide (DE)
REEP Euro Ent’Ent (FR)
Helvartis (CH)
The “DIGIPRAC Ready for New Realities – The Digital Practice Enterprise” project aimed to update the traditional Practice Enterprise model by incorporating and enhancing digital skills training in the Practice Enterprise curriculum.
Outcomes:
- Reassess and update the Practice Enterprise model for a digital setting, ensuring it remains effective and realistic.
- Provide a digital version of the Practice Enterprise that is flexible and accessible, making it easier to adapt to challenges and more inclusive for those who can’t physically attend training due to location or health issues.
- Help vocational education and training (VET) students develop entrepreneurial skills through a guide outlining methodologies for building and sustaining digital Practice Enterprises.
- Resources and toolkit to help integrate digital Practice Enterprise into global learning environments.
- This project ensured the Practice Enterprise model is future-ready, enhancing digital and entrepreneurial skills for learners and educators alike.
Consortium:
Vilniaus Kolegija (LT – Lead)
PEN Worldwide (DE)
International Business College IBC (DK)
Fundacio Inform (ES)
Bfz-Essen GmbH (DE)
Athenum Ninove (BE)
Project Website:
www.digiprac.penworldwide.org
