iDEA and Digital Stockport Partnership
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Cisco Networking Academy
United Kingdom · London · Transnational · See the United Kingdom profile
AIMS: NetAcad aims to equip students with applied digital skills, so that they can enter the job market ready to work, with the requisite technological knowhow applied to real-world scenarios. ACTIVITIES: The NetAcad curriculum is designed to provide a blended learning experienc
10.9 million
Students reached
180
Countries
25,600
Teachers
12,100
Academies
3000+
EU institutions adopting NetAcad
$2.6 billion
In-kind contribution (CSR)
31 courses, 1200+ hours of tuition
Courses offered
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Cisco — website
- Type
- Policy
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Marginalised young people and children, Unemployed and those facing social problems, People with disabilities, Migrants
- People reached
- 10900000
- Period
- 2015-03-31
- Keywords
- digital, skills, training, young people, employment
Context
Cisco Networking Academy (NetAcad) is a Cisco corporate social responsibility initiative that began in 1997 after Cisco donated networking equipment to a local school and then trained staff to use it, growing into a global digital-skills education programme.
Objectives
NetAcad aims to equip students with applied digital skills so they can enter the job market ready to work, with a curriculum spanning casual learners through professional qualifications.
Activities
The programme offers a blended-learning curriculum of 31 courses (1200+ hours) in over 20 languages, delivered via a cloud platform through partnerships with universities, schools, government and community training centres and NGOs; some projects target specific groups such as refugees in France.
Results
To date, 10.9 million students have accessed NetAcad across 180 countries, taught by 25,600 teachers in 12,100 academies; in the EU it is adopted by more than 3,000 institutions, with $2.6 billion in in-kind CSR contributions to date.
Conclusions
The programme is described as having sustained and scaled operations for over 23 years, framed as an example of enabling broad access to the technology employment pipeline.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Commonly funded by
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
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