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Digital transformation is revolutionising the way Europeans live, study and work. Yet, not all Europeans are ready to fully participate in – contribute to – the digital society and economy. According to the European Commission, only 57% of Europeans have the digital skills needed for the digital world we live in. One in six Europeans aged 16-74 has no digital skills at all and one in four only has a low level of digital skills. Furthermore, while 90% of jobs require basic digital competences, 35% of the labour force lacks them.Moreover, 38% of EU companies report that the lack of digital skills negatively affects their performance and competitiveness. To tackle this challenge, the EU launched the “Digital Skills Camp; Jobs Coalition” with the ambition of empowering Europeans to acquire the digital skills they need to thrive in society, remain productive and employable. The Coalition main target is to train 1 million young people for digital jobs through short-term training programmes. Poland lags behind: according to the EU Commission “EU Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems” Poland ranks 20 out of the 28 Member States, with particularly low rating in human capital and attitude towardsdigital entrepreneurship.The DEEP project focus is also set on entrepreneurship as a key skill in VET as more entrepreneurs are needed in order to bring Europe back to growth and create new jobs - The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan shows. Entrepreneurship education is perceived as highly important and, along with entrepreneurial teacher training, addressed by a large number of European strategic documents, including ET 2020. The DEEP main aim is to improve professional success chances of VET students with different backgrounds by developing not only their entrepreneurship skills (or knowledge), but also their digital skills. One of the elements of innovation of DEEP project is that those skills will not be treated separately as traditionally are foreseen by national curricula, but in an integrative, interdisciplinary manner. On the other hand, it provides VET teachers/trainers/mentors with the necessary tools and knowledge to help their students effectively acquire those skills. DEEP proposes an integrated approach, possible through the cooperation of partners active in multiple sectors.DEEP is a truly EU project and as such cannot be conducted in the isolation of individual Member States. The value of the project is in its transnational nature: it tackles EU challenges (fragmentation and distance between VET and digital entrepreneurship) and it provides EU-wide solutions that can be addressed only in a holistic vision. DEEP will identify EU best practices that require the participation of an international partnership. More, the DEEP OER is meant to be a pan-EU resource and its content will be flexible to be dynamically adjusted to the diversity of the various EU realities: such degree of dynamism can only be achieved through the international partnership that the DEEP project brings together, representing the worlds of VET and entrepreneurship in a truly European dimension. Finally, the needs of target groups were not identified only at national level, but they are present over the entire Europe - which need more entrepreneurs, and the solutions will therefore be common thanks to the use of English as lingua franca. As the project addresses transnational needs, it necessitates a transnational approach to increase its relevance and to bring together different tools.
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