The current period shows that individuals with digital skills have more advantageous conditions in their business life. Adults with blue-collar occupations are at a disadvantage compared to white-collar workers in terms of digital competencies and this shows that “digital skills”, which is one of the key skills that the target group of adults with blue-collar occupations should have, should be developed.
The Level Up project, funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Adult Education Program, was implemented to provide digital skills to adults with blue-collar occupations. The coordinating institution of the project is Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Partner institutions involved in the project are: The Governorship of Istanbul, Türkonfed (Turkey), Bridging to the Future (England), Egina (Italy), MediaCreativa (Spain) and Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Portugal). During the project, 14 different digital skills training modules that blue-collar adults can benefit from were prepared and transferred to the developed digital platform. In addition, a teacher's handbook has been developed as a guide and presented to the instructors who train blue-collar adult students.
