Jun 24, 2025

European Digital Skills Awards 2025

The EU-funded Digital Skills and Jobs Platform has announced the 2025 edition of the Digital Skills Awards.
 

The 2025 Award edition has five categories: 
 

  • Digital Upskilling @ Work: initiatives focused on digital upskilling and reskilling professionals in various sectors and of SMEs, facilitating job placements for ICT professionals at all levels.
  • Digital Skills for Education: projects aimed specifically at digital upskilling for teachers and/or students, VET and school administrations. 
  • Inclusion in the Digital World
     
  1. Initiatives building digital training, media literacy programmes for groups of persons that experience a higher risk of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and violence, including, but not limited to, ethnic minorities, migrants, people with disabilities, isolated elderly people and children, marginalised, hard to reach and high-risk groups;
  2. Initiatives to foster digital accessibility skills.  
     
  • Women in ICT Careers: projects that aim to increase the representation of women in ICT professions by offering digital upskilling opportunities to women in the workforce and encouraging young women to pursue careers in ICT.
  • Cybersecurity Skills: Designed for cybersecurity skills development initiatives for citizens and SMEs.  
     

The call is open to public entities, private enterprises, academic institutions, grassroots initiatives, or EU-funded project consortiums. The project or initiative must be an ongoing project that has already achieved at least half of its objectives, or a project that was completed no earlier than January 2024. The project or initiative must be implemented in at least one EU Member State. Projects that are also implemented in non-EU countries can apply, but have to demonstrate their impact in EU Member States.
 

The deadline for applications is 15 July.
 

Find out more: Press release

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