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Driving Inclusivity through Digital Learning

Welcome to the Skills Upload Jr programme! Part of Vodafone Foundation’s work in Europe to ensure everyone has the digital skills they need to feel like they belong.

We work in eight countries to help students gain the confidence to explore their curiosity, whatever their background, gender or where they call home. And we support teachers to use digital skills across the entire curriculum with tools from smart devices to artificial intelligence, robotics to augmented reality.

In our ever-changing world, we want to ensure no one gets left behind. We’re providing digital skills that break down inequalities and enable everyone to feel safe, happy, confident and connected.

Skills Upload Jr providing digital skills for life.

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EDUCATION

…unlocking doors to new opportunities.

TECHNOLOGY

…a powerful tool in education.

INCLUSION

…working towards a more just and equitable future.

WE

reach

+7.5 million

students

+600 thousand

teachers

Catalyst for change

We believe digital learning is a powerful catalyst for change and aim to improve the way we teach and learn, with a clear goal: ensuring everyone can benefit from education and digitalisation, fostering social inclusion and reducing the digital divide.

Our impact

How do we create change?

There is a digital divide across society. At Vodafone Foundation, we’re working with partners across Europe to provide digital skills that break down inequalities, combat loneliness, and enable everyone to feel safe, happy, confident, and connected in a digital world.

Working with schools, governments, NGOs, parents and families, we aim to make our education systems more equitable, innovative and resilient, enable everyone to have access to digital education and help digital learning benefit whole communities.

How we create change
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The Skills Upload Jr Challenge: Time to ignite opportunity.

Vodafone Foundation is launching the SUJ Challenge for students across our nine Skills Upload Jr countries.

Students aged between 6 and 19 years old are invited to develop solutions to real-life, community-wide issues that are common to all European citizens, and in which technology is a lever to drive positive changes in their environments.

The winning teams will participate in an enriching international experience at the European award ceremony organised by Vodafone Foundation in Bucharest.

Find out more about the Skills Upload Jr Challenge

"We used innovative methodologies to develop students' digital skills through games and experiments. 'Digital Adventure' interactive activities, in which they used the Merge cube to visualise dinosaurs in augmented reality, stimulated their creativity and imagination."

- Iulia Caba, speech therapist at the School Centre for Inclusive Education in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

"I considered that all assignment proposals were appropriate to the student age level and were pedagogically relevant, meeting the student essential school profile, both in terms of ICT and other curricular areas. Interdisciplinarity was prioritised. It encouraged interest and motivation in students and allow them to contact with various digital platforms. It was very good.”

- Teacher at Agrupamento de Escolas de Arganil, Portugal.

"The project has made the learning processes more interesting for the students and has also contributed significantly to my professional development. Realising their potential and seeing that they can develop their own work in this field contributed greatly to the development of their skills".

- Nur Cagla Akkaleli Toprak, teacher in Istanbul, Turkey.

"Students have shown greater enthusiasm for subjects traditionally considered difficult, such as physics, thanks to the Next Generation programme. We were particularly surprised by the emergence of innovative ideas from students, driven by their new commitment to STEM skills."

- Antonia Kaloudi-Hatzea, teacher in Gytheion, Greece.

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