During ICT Spring Europe 2015 – a yearly event that draws to Luxembourg more than 4,000 key decision-makers from the IT, Finance, Web and Marketing sectors as well as numerous investors, entrepreneurs and founders of start-ups from more than 70 countries – the minister of Education, Childhood and Youth unveiled the Digital(4)Education strategy, a strategy championed by the government and presented by Claude Meisch as an initiative for “the development of skills and know-how for the 21st century”.
The Digital(4)Education strategy is designed to prepare young people for a complex working environment that is undergoing permanent change, to promote new apprenticeship programmes and innovative educational projects based on the use of digital technology at school and in the world around school, to train future ICT experts and to promote entrepreneurship in this sector. It also aims to reduce the digital divide by providing all young people with access to quality educational resources, regardless of their social background.
The strategy being presented is based around 5 key tenets within which the leading projects will be implemented.
These projects include the Bee Creative programme, which aims to improve the digital skills of young residents of Luxembourg (programming, digital security, design, communication, etc.) and to instil a digital culture in the country. It involves the creation of a series of “makerspaces” FabLabs within schools, where high-school pupils will be able to give free rein to their creativity and develop their own digital tools. This project is in the process of being deployed, with five “makerspaces” units due to open in autumn 2015 at five high schools across Luxembourg.
