In schools across Europe, many teachers lack access to training, girls are excluded from digital learning, and students lack the skills and access needed to realize their potential.
Skills Upload Jr provides digital skills, access, training, and support for students and teachers, ensuring everyone has the digital skills they need to belong.
We support children and young people to develop the skills, confidence, and resilience to thrive in a digital world. Our work on digital wellbeing helps them understand online risks, build healthy digital habits, think critically about content, and use technology safely, positively, and responsibly in their everyday lives.
Teachers and educators are supported to use digital skills across the curriculum, with tools from smart devices to AI, robotics, and augmented reality.
Through our work in the education system and campaigns, students gain the confidence to explore their curiosity, develop their skills, and understand digital wellbeing to safely, compassionately, and critically use digital tools in all aspects of their lives.
We work with schools, governments, NGOs, and parents to make education systems more equitable, innovative, and resilient.
Our Europe-wide partnership with Save the Children has created new research and insights into digital education, content, and training, and a Children's Digital Advisory Network.
Skills Upload Jr has already significantly improved students' digital skills, creativity, and reasoning abilities across Europe. Additionally, it has strengthened collaboration and participation in the classroom, fostering a more dynamic and interactive environment for learning.
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Meet Güncem Campagna, Founder of Tech & Teach, a local partner of Coding for Tomorrow – an initiative within Skills Upload Jr in Germany.
Madalena is 11 years old. Hear about her experience of DigitALL, part of Skills Upload Jr in Portugal.
In Romania, Mario is 11 years old and values the access to technology that his friends get from Skills Upload Jr.
Dervish is a student in northern Albania. Through Vodafone Foundation's Skills Upload Jr he got involved in coding. Dervish used those skills to conceptualise how pollution could be cleared from the local lake. The project won the Skills Upload Jr challenge hackathon.
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Skills Upload Jr wouldn't be possible without our global and local partners
Discussions around new funding models in the development sector have dominated discussions at UNGA this year. So Lisa Felton, Managing Director of Vodafone Foundation has been considering what a blueprint for future funding could look like, based on the Foundation’s experience, especially the m-mama programme which has demonstrated a different approach, by delivering national, government-funded maternal emergency transport at a fraction of traditional costs, and now scaling across Africa. Read on to understand how smarter philanthropy can deliver lasting results.
