How we create change

We believe that digital learning can be a powerful catalyst for change and aim to improve the way society teaches and learns to ensure everyone can benefit from digital learning, foster social inclusion and reduce the digital divide.

By working with public and private partners, we introduce digital knowledge and tools in the classroom that enhance students’ skills and promote their autonomy.

Educators and students are at the centre of our work. We provide digital skills, access, training and support for school students, teachers and learners of all ages. Through Skills Upload Jr we:

  • Give students of all ages the confidence, digital tools, materials and opportunities, to explore their curiosity, whatever their background, gender or where they call home.

  • Support teachers to use digital tools across the entire curriculum with learning materials for tools from smart devices to artificial intelligence, robotics to augmented reality.

  • Help young people feel secure and empowered in all aspects of their lives when using digital tools in our hubs and at school, through collaborative projects that inspire creative and critical thinking.

  • Work with schools, governments, NGOs, parents and families 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.

  • Highlight the benefits of digital skills for future jobs by bringing students together with role models and learning about their experiences, ultimately being able to give back to their communities.

Programme elements

Together, we can empower the most vulnerable so that no one is left behind.

Learn more about the work of Skills Upload Jr in each market:

Albania

Vodafone Foundation in Albania is going through a transition process. We are currently developing an online platform through which we will provide training to students in digital skills and new technologies, such as AI and programming.

Germany

Germany's flagship programme is Coding For Tomorrow, an initiative to teach secondary school teachers and students how to use digital technologies, in order to create educational opportunities for technology-based education in schools.

Coding For Tomorrow is active in seven federal states with its training offerings, and the hub for digital education in Düsseldorf serves as an incubator in which innovative educational offers are developed, tested and scaled nationwide through teaching units with schools, holiday camps or project days.

Spain

Launched in 2019, DigiCraft is an educational programme that aims to train children between 6 and 12 years old and their educators in digital skills. It combines teacher training, emerging technological resources and an online platform with quality educational content to accompany educators in the classroom, prioritising those students who are at risk of social exclusion.

Being implemented in over 6% of Public Primary Schools in the country, it is based on the DigiCraft methodology, born from collaboration with experts in education and technology from the University of Salamanca.

Greece

Generation Next Level is a programme that aims to develop digital skills through STEM learning by providing access to new technologies and science to all students and teachers throughout Greece.

Students are asked to identify a problem, issue, or challenge they face in their local community or in their daily lives and develop a construction or a digital app to solve it.

Italy

In 2020, Vodafone Foundation in Italy developed LV8 (Level 8), an app that provides students with certified digital skills through a learning game experience. The app is used in high schools throughout Italy and can be downloaded for free from the App Store or Play Store. LV8 allows young people to enrich their curriculum with certified and recognised digital skills, to facilitate their entry into the world of work.

Netherlands

The Online Masters programme enables students to go online more consciously, skilfully and safely. Features include online curriculum classes for Primary and Secondary Education teachers and students on digital literacy, basic ICT skills, media literacy, computational thinking and information literacy.

Portugal

DigitALL has been designed to be an ally of Primary school teachers and students as a school's complementary offer, allowing the development of digital skills in students through the provision of innovative and dynamic pedagogical resources across 140 schools nationwide. The implementation of the programme in the school context follows a face-to-face, distance and hybrid learning model.

Turkey

“Artificial Intelligence Stars” in Turkey aims to equip the new generation with technology and let them use AI learnings to merge with their creative ideas.

Young people between 11-18 years old learn AI comprehensively and develop their own projects with the support of volunteer educators & teachers in 81 cities across Turkey.

Romania

Școala din viitor is a project launched in 2021 that aims to teach digital skills to Primary and Secondary students in schools across Romania through training sessions for teachers. Based on DigiCraft, the programme launched by Vodafone Foundation in Spain, it shares the same innovative methodology. The programme covers educational content on four different topics: Ecology & Planet, Digital Intelligence, Robotics and Ready for the future.