Digital Skills & Jobs Platform
The last two years of the European Digital Skills Awards (EDSA) have been a success. With almost 600 applications and a total of 11 winning projects across both editions, the Digital Skills & Jobs Platform is thrilled to announce the 2025 edition of the awards.
Europe's digital skills in 2025: 5 distinct award categories
Building on the success of the past two years, EDSA 2025 will reach an ever-widening audience and bring together future stakeholders for a large-scale celebration of the best practices in skills development practices in Europe.
2025 Award 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:
- Initiatives building digital training, media literacy programs 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;
- 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.
Application and Eligibility
Finalists will be announced during a special online event in October 2025.
We invite everyone to apply - from public, private, academic, research and/or training centres, schools, SMEs or large corporates, EU-funded project consortia, public administrations, NGOs and citizen initiatives. Applicants should have either initiated or completed projects, directed at fostering the adoption of digital skills in 1 of the 5 categories of the Awards.