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Digital Citizenship through education - Social Schools

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sCooledu is a non-profit organisation founded in 2017 with the support of the Digital Belgium Skill Fund. It aims to bring together all the actors in Digital Citizenship in Flanders to improve the diffusion of information around this subject through education. All schools in Flan

750 schools

Schools registered (2018)

3000 children

Children reached (2018)

Digital Citizenship through education - Social Schools

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: sCooledu — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 3300
Period: 2017-04-30
Region (NUTS): BE21
Keywords: digital citizenship, digital inclusion, digital skills, special needs

Context

sCooledu, founded in 2017 in Flanders with Digital Belgium Skill Fund support, runs a 'most digital and social school' competition and free workshops on digital citizenship for children, teachers and parents, aiming to spread digital-skills education across Flemish schools.

Results

By 2018, almost 750 schools (28% of Flemish schools) had joined the sCooledu community, and volunteers reached almost 3,000 children and 300 teachers that year through workshops.

Implementation

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Data sources

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MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Attachments

Quality score: 76/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 33% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

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Innovation level4/5

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Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

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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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