The first newsletter of the Skill Pics project is now available online. The project aims to contribute to the continuous professional development of VET teachers, trainers, and mentors in education and business.

In a bid to empower elders to safely access online services, our project e-Protect has released a comprehensive Competency Scale for necessary consumer and data protection skills elders should process for safe internet use.

The kick-off meeting of the Skill-pics project was successfully finalized on the 9th of October 2020.

The kick-off meeting of the Money Matters project was successfully finalised on December 3^rd 2020. Due to the pandemic, the meeting was completed online with, partners from Cyprus, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Greece gathering to discuss the initial steps of the project implementation.

The European Commission has emphasised the need to develop key transversal skills in all education sectors to sustain the high-value knowledge economy.

One of the main factors hindering possible resolutions of family debt is the lack of key financial literacy skills that currently pertain in most low-skilled communities where debt burdens remain high.

Studies estimate that by 2060 at least one in three Europeans will be over 65. The European Commission argues that digital technology can help older people to stay healthy, independent and active atwork or in their community for longer and it helps to improve our quality of life. Since the Digital Single Market strategy has been adopted, several studies have identified the lack of digital skillsamong the elderly.

Therefore, there is a strong need to educate EU citizens and the elderly on how to access and engage in online activities by experiencing high level of consumer and personaldata protection. Specifically, the elderly generally lacks awareness of current security threats, and remain under-educated in terms of applying appropriate controlsand safeguards to their computers and networking devices.

The primary target group of e-Protect project which is elderly people (people aged 65+) will be empowered and develop their self-confidence when using the internet and thus supportthe improved integration in the labour market and society.