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Digital Skills Academy — Accenture Romania & Roma Education Fund Partnership

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Accenture Romania's Digital Skills Academy, running since 2020, partnered with the Roma Education Fund from March 2024 to bring PC skills, Scratch coding, internet safety and AI-ethics training to 250+ Roma and refugee children across 8 schools, backed by company volunteers.

1,110+

Children reached (5th edition) (Mar-Jun 2024)

250+

Roma/refugee students reached (REF strand) (by Jun 2025)

Digital Skills Academy — Accenture Romania & Roma Education Fund Partnership

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: Accenture Romania and Roma Education Fund (REF) Romania
Period: 2020–2025 (ongoing); REF partnership March 2024 – June 2025
Keywords: digital literacy, coding education, Roma inclusion, corporate volunteering, youth digital skills

Context

Digital Skills Academy is a corporate-volunteering digital-literacy programme run by Accenture Romania since 2020 for children aged roughly 9-14; from March 2024 it partnered with the Roma Education Fund (REF) Romania to extend the programme to Roma and Ukrainian refugee children via REF's One Stop Shop Centre.

Results

By its fifth edition (March-June 2024) the programme had reached over 1,110 children across 47 schools with 109 Accenture volunteers. The REF-affiliated strand ran in 8 schools across seven counties, reaching over 250 students in 13 classes by the edition concluding in June 2025.

Conclusions

REF researchers reported teachers found the modules relevant and students gained confidence and digital fluency regardless of prior academic performance; these are qualitative programme-partner observations rather than an independent outcomes evaluation.

Implementation

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

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-16
Accenture Romania and Roma Education Fund (REF) Romania — accessed 2026-07-16
Roma Education Fund: Digital Skills Academy concludes across eight Romanian schools — accessed 2026-07-16
Roma Education Fund: Accenture Romania and REF partnership — accessed 2026-07-16
Outsourcing Today: Accenture prepares Romanian youth for the digital world — accessed 2026-07-16

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Quality score: 92/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 6% in this catalogue (573 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

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

Innovation level3/5

Pairs a multi-year corporate-volunteer computing curriculum (PC skills through Scratch coding to generative-AI ethics) with a dedicated outreach partnership targeting Roma and refugee children, though the underlying pedagogy mirrors standard corporate CSR digital-literacy models.

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

The Academy has run continuously since 2020 through five annual editions with growing scale (47 schools/1,110 children by 2024), and the REF partnership has itself continued across two full editions (2024 and 2025).

Evaluation evidence1/1

REF researchers documented qualitative evaluation findings — including named-source teacher feedback on module relevance and student engagement — rather than only raw participation counts.

Demonstrated reach1/1

The REF-affiliated strand reached 250+ students across 8 schools and 13 classes in seven counties, within a wider programme that has reached 4,950+ children across Romania since 2020.

Documented learning1/1

Sources report specific findings on which modules worked best (online safety and AI ethics drew the strongest engagement) and use the annual Digital Skills Olympiad as a structured feedback and showcase mechanism.

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