What are we working on

Community of Practice (CoP) for Digital Literacy and Inclusion

The Community of Practice (CoP) is created as a space for sharing. Here teachers and professionals in the field of education will learn from and inspire each other, by co-creating innovative pedagogies, developing and testing new methods, and platforms for digital collaborative learning....

Online Self-Assessment Tool


Informed by the Digital Agenda and Framework for Digital Literacy, an online self-assessment tool based on DigCompEdu methodology is being designed. The tool is the first step in identifying the digital literacy needs of educators.....

Digital Challenge and Innovation Learning Lab (DChiLL) ​

DChiLL strives to conceptualize a multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral and inter-university knowledge creation model that combines physical and virtual learning environments with collaborative digital tools...

Toolkit for engaging external stakeholders through digital media ​

A specific toolkit with strategies, digital media and methods that aims to engage external stakeholders for collaboration and innovation in education, for example through challenge-based learning, will be developed.

about us

IGNITION (European Digital Literacy Coalition for Inclusion, Collaboration and Inclusion in Higher Education) is an Erasmus funded Cooperation Partnership and its main goal is to enhance digital literacy and inclusion for teachers, faculty staff, students and life-long learners in external organizations that partners collaborate with.  

IGNITION aims to increase awareness of and competence development in digital literacy of all people involved in digital transformation of higher education institutions through the project’s outcomes:  

  • A Common Digital Agenda that gives direction to our activities 
  • An Online Self-assessment tool to learn from and with each other;  
  • The Digital Challenge Innovation Learning Lab (DChiLL), 
  • The transnational Community of Practice for Digital Literacy and Inclusion (CoP), and  
  • The Toolkit for engaging with external stakeholders through digital media.

Partners include Hanze University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands), South East Technological University (Ireland), Hochschule Bremen (Germany), Polytechnic Institute of Braganza (Portugal).

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Our vision

We want to contribute to the future of an inclusive and high performing digital educational ecosystem prepared for the next generation of digital youth.  

our mission

Our main goal is to increase awareness on and enhance the development of digital literacy and inclusion of all people involved in higher education: teachers and educators, staff, students, and external parties we collaborate and engage with in our education. Through creating more awareness about digital literacy for inclusion, collaboration and innovation, we aim to inspire every actor in higher education to learn more about their digital skills and mindset, nurturing a lifelong learning attitude.

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our mission

Our main goal is to increase awareness on and enhance the development of digital literacy and inclusion of all people involved in higher education: teachers and educators, staff, students, and external parties we collaborate and engage with in our education. Through creating more awareness about digital literacy for inclusion, collaboration and innovation, we aim to inspire every actor in higher education to learn more about their digital skills and mindset, nurturing a lifelong learning attitude.

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our approach

At the start of our project, we gather experiences and information in our institutions that helps us to identify and prioritize the most relevant topics to be included in our Common Digital Agenda, which serves as a reference point to developing activities and tools in IGNITION’s project activities. The design of our agenda, tools and activities relies heavily on the European Framework for the Digital Competences of Educators, DigCompEdu. This is a validated framework, designed and tested by the European Commission, and it helps teachers and educators   understand what it means to be digitally competent.  

Benefits of joining us

A place to get inspired and share your experiences

A place to share your own experience with, for example, blended learning or different platforms and tools. It is also an opportunity to learn from others and find new interesting methods for your lessons for better digital didactics.

Learn more about digital literacy.

Not only do you learn new methods you also learn more about digital literacy and skills. For example how to be safe on the internet, how to modify and create content and how you can optimize this in the best way.

Take your lessons to the next level

Participating in the Cop, learning with the DChiLL, using the self-assessment tool and the tool kit, or in combination of all of these, teachers will be able not only to increase their performance, and hopefully their confidence too. They will also learn with peers and experts; learn new methods and skills and can take your teaching activities to the next level and engage and inspire students more to keep on learning.