The EU Digital Skills and Jobs Platform is launching the 2025 edition of the European Digital Skills Awards. 

This year, the awards will build on the success of these past 2 years to reach an ever-widening audience and activate current and future stakeholders around a large-scale celebration of best practices in skills development throughout Europe. The 2025 award categories are: 

• Digital Upskilling @ Work: initiatives focused on digital upskilling and reskilling professionals in various sectors and of SMEs, facilitating job placements for ICT professionals at all levels.
• Digital Skills for Education: projects specifically aimed at digital upskilling for teachers and/or students, VET and school administrations.  
• Inclusion in the Digital World: initiatives building digital training, media literacy programs for groups of persons that experience a higher risk of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and violence, including, but not limited to, ethnic minorities, migrants, people with disabilities, isolated elderly people and children, marginalised, hard to reach and high-risk groups, and initiatives to foster digital accessibility skills.  
• Women in ICT Careers: Projects aimed at increasing the representation of women in ICT professions, offering digital upskilling opportunities for women in the workforce, and encouraging young women to pursue careers in ICT.
• Cybersecurity Skills: Designed for cybersecurity skills development initiatives for citizens and SMEs. 

All types of stakeholders, including public administrations, that have either initiated or completed projects, directed at fostering the adoption of digital skills in 1 of the 5 categories of the Awards, are invited to apply. The applications for the 2025 edition of the EDSA are open from 03 June to 15 July 2025. Finalists will be announced during a special online event in October 2025. More information on the European Digital Skills Award is available here.