Good practice Imported

CYL Digital

Spain · Valladolid · Local · See the Spain profile

“CYL Digital” is the initiative of the regional government of Castilla y León (Spain) to provide training and certification on digital competences for the citizens of Castilla y León. Activities: CyL Digital has a personalised advice service where you can make small queries or re

89,138

Face-to-face users

72,000

Training hours delivered

55%

Women among participants

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Junta de Castilla y León — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children, People with disabilities, Unemployed and those facing social problems, Migrants
People reached: 89000
Period: 2009-11-19
Region (NUTS): ES41
Keywords: employability, digital technologies, digital competences, marginalised groups

Context

CyL Digital, run by the regional government of Castilla y Leon (Spain) since 2009, provides personalised digital-competence advice, training and DigComp-aligned certification through 67 associated centres and 128 collaborating entities, including a mobile 'CYL Digital bus' for rural areas.

Results

The programme recorded 89,138 face-to-face users, 13,416 in-class activities, 72,000 training hours, 26,782 online users and 1,681 online training sessions; 55% of participants were women.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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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
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

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Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. CYL Digital. Persistent ID: d4779b61-2e20-4aa7-9df4-7f51731c28bf.

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