Erasmus+ KA210-ADU · Small-scale Partnership in Adult Education · 2025–2026
Closing the Digital GAP
Tech, digital and soft skills training for adults facing the digital divide. A European cooperation between Amsterdam and Madrid to make the tech workforce more inclusive, with a special focus on women.
200
Adult learners trained
2
Cities: Amsterdam & Madrid
3
Languages: EN · NL · ES
24
Months of activities
What is Closing the Digital GAP?
Digital skills have become a fundamental need for inclusion and for personal and professional development. Yet many adults, especially women, migrants and people of colour, are being left behind by the digital divide. Closing the Digital GAP (CDG) is an Erasmus+ cooperation project that creates an accessible, reusable training programme combining tech skills, digital skills and personal development, so that 200 adult learners in the Netherlands and Spain can participate fully in the digital society and labour market.
The CDG program: three pillars
💻 Tech Skills
A 3-month programme, run four times, where participants explore careers in tech through hands-on IT challenges and assignments and discover whether a future in the tech sector is for them.
🌐 Digital Skills
Practical training on online visibility, cloud tools, cybersecurity awareness, e-commerce, GDPR and digital marketing, plus an introduction to AI and VR and how they affect our daily lives.
🚀 Personal Development
A 24-month coaching journey: every participant is matched with a job coach and joins group sessions on pitching, presenting, salary negotiation, financial well-being and more.
Plus: an open MOOC in English, Dutch and Spanish, the international workshop “AI & VR” for adult educators, and a European network of trainers.
The organizations behind the project
Stichting Zwarte vrouwen voor Technologie
Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Project coordinator. A foundation (re-)training primarily Black women into tech and supporting underrepresented groups with digital skills and personal development.
Asociación Building Bridges
Madrid, Spain; Partner organisation. A non-profit promoting labour inclusion and EU opportunities, with an e-learning platform of over 2,000 students and 14 years of experience in European projects.