DigComp - Assessment Tool

Being digitally competent is becoming an increasingly important issue for employability and growth in the EU digital economy. Europeans that have an insufficient level of digital skills have fewer chances to find work, to use online services, to have a better quality of life and to be included in today’s society.

Assessment has become a critical issue in the improvement of the EU population’s levels of digital competence because it helps: individuals to upgrade their levels of digital skills; education and training systems to deliver digitally competent learners; organisations to find people with minimum levels of required competence: and policy makers to follow developments and define further actions to improve people’s digital competence.

Therefore, the Joint Research Centre (JRC-B4) launched a call in 2017 of which the main aim is to validate and pilot an assessment instrument (called ’DigComp assessment instrument for foundation and intermediate levels’) for digital competence, targeting individuals with no or low level of digital skills. The assessment instrument is based on the latest version (2017) of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) 2.1 developed by the JRC-B4.