Empleando Digital

Empleando Digital is the first case submitted by our Community that has made it to the MEDICI Digital Inclusion Map & Catalogue! See the full story here!

Abstract

#EmpleandoDigital (#ED) is a pilot project developed by Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) and the Spanish Red Cross (CRE), in close collaboration with the Accenture Foundation. The project is co-financed by the Accenture Foundation and the European Social Fund. The project’s objective was bringing up-to-date, improving and bringing innovation to the processes and methodologies of our employment programmes in order to continue successfully supporting the people we work with in a labour market that is being transformed by the new technologies.  To achieve this, #ED has focused on two key aspects: • Training our employment teams and bringing our methodologies up-to-date (including the design and development of innovative digital tools). • Enhancing the digital knowledge and skills of the people at risk of exclusion that take part in our employment programmes. In #ED three types of courses have been organized: – Digital skills courses, using the methodology Emplea+ (developed by Accenture Foundation in the framework of Together for the Employment of the most Vulnerable initiative). More than 8,000 people improved their digital skills through basic and advanced courses. – Courses in occupations digitally transformed (low-skilled jobs traditionally held by the most vulnerable are not going to disappear as a result of the digital transformation but they are changing. It is crucial to adequately prepare the participants in our employment programmes). 235 people have participated in 23 courses. – Courses in the technological sector. Together with Accenture Foundation, we have designed an ambitious training programme on software development (Java and Javascript): 480 theory hours and 150 hours of on-the-job training taking part in different Accenture projects. 48 people have participated in 4 courses: 12 are already working in a technological position (9 with an employment contract of indefinite duration).

Target group

Unemployed and those facing social problems; Marginalised young people and children

Country

Spain

Website

https://www.gitanos.org/que-hacemos/areas/employment/employing_digital.html

Stakeholders involved

Fundación Secretariado Gitano, Spanish Red Cross, Accenture Foundation

Further information

Gitanos.org

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