About the Project

Digital And Scientific Literacy Upskilling For Adults

Education strives to keep the pace with the fast-changing world in which we live in, especially for those sectors of society who are not always involved in formal education programmes, such as the adults, and in rapidly evolving sectors like digital competences, new media and science. The European Commission has set among its priorities to pursue science education for responsible citizenship and to follow The Digital Competence Framework 2.0, which considers Information and data literacy to be one of the fundamental components of digital competence. DECRYPT – Digital and sciEntifiC liteRacY uPskilling for adulTs intends to promote the exchange of good practices of digital and science education for adults to foster a better understanding of scientific concepts helping to identify reliable sources in new media.

DECRYPT foresees to undertake the following activities:

1Producing a Training Format that will contain a detailed outline of the research results of the project, including best practices and the findings of focus groups with adults and organizations in adult education. The result will be released in multiple languages (each partner’s plus English) and made available as an OER on the partners’ websites as well as the project Web Platform, with a view to maximizing its visibility, usability, and diffusion. Content-wise the Training Format will be tailored to the needs of adults and adult educators to foster the development of knowledge, skills and competences in digital and scientific literacy. The training format will be scalable, targeted at basic skills but aiming at reaching a higher level of knowledge and will pursue the ultimate goal of promoting digital and scientific literacy as fundamental references for informed, active and involved citizens.

2A Joint Staff Training Event (JSTE) will involve 3 participants per partner, being educators in digital and scientific literacy for adults. The participants will start with the discussion of the research results and, sharing their experience and knowledge, will also provide a feedback on the Training Format in order to improve it.