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SPAIN http://www.getonlineweek.eu/spain/ For the fifth year in a row, the event was held in Spain, with the support of Telecentre Networking Community Association (Asociación Comunidad de Redes de Telecentros). The activities at telecentres within the network focused on new occupations, training for employment and digital skills accreditation. The main bash of the Campaign was the 15th Meeting of Telecentre Networks, organised in collaboration with the Technological Modernisation Agency of Galicia under the slogan “Boosting Your Digital Upskilling”. Additionally, Fundación Dédalo launched its new service: “Access to resources for unemployed people”. This service serves as a workstation to facilitate the integration of unemployed people into the labour market (building their own CV, active job search online and access to information and resources to consider self-employment as a job opportunity). Also, Fundación Dédalo donated 22 computers to non-profit associations to promote the use of technologies among groups finding difficulties to access the internet. Some 120 training actions were held during the Get Online Week in Extremadura alone, with around 1,100 participants. Among other activities, several workshops were held in Tudela, such as “SKILLAGE, Are you ready to get hired?”. SWEDEN http://www.getonlineweek.eu/sweden/ citizens. At Kramfors Library kids got to try computer games created by high school students with Scratch and could work with Scratch themselves. Record-breaking numbers in Sweden show 132 participants took part in the campaign, total 4,580 people. The large majority of the participants were libraries, the reason being is the framework law communal and guidelines libraries have to follow. Target groups are people with different disabilities, national minorities, migrants and children and youth. Among many events, in Väster Norrland an e-fair was held with exhibitors from the library, the municipality, local transportation, pharmacies, banks etc., to inform visitors about e-services. In Kalmar Län the focus was on immigrants and asylum seekers. Invitations were sent to the asylum housings in the County to visit their local libraries where they had information about everything from library services, to digital magazines in different languages, to how to loan books to help them with related questions to job seeking, to digital identification and social and healthcare security. Events varied from big to small, from lectures to hands on training/education for young to senior 22