Annual reports Annual Report 2017 | Page 12

12 PARTNERSHIPS Our partnerships with industry and with civil society organisations brought increased participation and support to recognising the role of non-formal training in building digital competences. ALL DIGITAL continues to believe that the European skills gap can only be addressed by working in multi-stakeholder partnerships. Both through leadership and active participation, we aspire to bring added value to existing partnerships and to create new ones with NGOs, with public institutions and with the private sector. Civil society partners As members of the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP), we continued to cooperate with other civil society organisations in the fields of education and training on joint positions regarding mainstreaming digital skills, making Erasmus+ more effective and articulating joint messages to the EU institutions. Within the Coalition for Digital Skills and Jobs, we have continued to work as part of the Secretariat together with Digital Europe and European Schoolnet. ALL DIGITAL supported the creation of five new National Coalitions, facilitating partnerships at national level and engaging stakeholders in articulating or implementing digital skills strategies and policies. On the I-LINC platform, we have worked with European Schoolnet to foster connections and knowledge sharing between the formal and non- formal education sectors. We have started to work together with the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) on a new project to create better digital skills training fully aligned to DigComp, addressed to low skilled adults. Industry partners We have redefined our strategic partnership with Cisco on embedding the NetAcad concept into the ALL DIGITAL network. Together with five member organisations we have designed a train-the-trainers programme that will support e-facilitators working in digital competence centres. Liberty Global continued to remain a promotional supporter of the Get Online Week campaign. In 2017 we have started two new partnerships in the framework of Get Online Week: Mozilla and Certiport. This helped thousands of Europeans to access new resources, training and certification in the area of digital skills for social inclusion and employment. Our Summit in Barcelona and the ALL DIGITAL Awards have been largely supported by GSMA, and also by HP and Telapolis. Our Advisory Board now includes a new member - Austėja Trinkūnaitė, who is the new Secretary General of CEPIS. Fiona Fanning, now representing Certiport, continues as a Member of the Board, thus Certiport is joining four other organisations: Liberty Global, CEPIS, European eSkills Association and the Technical University of Dortmund.