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Digital Skills Academy — Parceria entre a Accenture Romênia e o Roma Education Fund

Romania · Bucharest · See the Romania profile

A Digital Skills Academy da Accenture Roménia, em curso desde 2020, associou-se ao Roma Education Fund a partir de março de 2024 para levar competências informáticas, programação em Scratch, segurança na internet e ética da IA a mais de 250 crianças ciganas e refugiadas em 8 escolas, com apoio de voluntários da empresa.

1,110+

Crianças alcançadas (5.ª edição) (Mar-Jun 2024)

250+

Alunos ciganos/refugiados alcançados (vertente REF) (by Jun 2025)

Digital Skills Academy — Parceria entre a Accenture Romênia e o Roma Education Fund

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

A Digital Skills Academy é um programa de voluntariado empresarial de literacia digital, promovido pela Accenture Roménia desde 2020 para crianças com cerca de 9-14 anos; a partir de março de 2024, estabeleceu uma parceria com o Roma Education Fund (REF) Roménia para alargar o programa a crianças ciganas e refugiadas ucranianas através do One Stop Shop Centre do REF.

Results

Na sua quinta edição (março-junho de 2024), o programa já tinha alcançado mais de 1.110 crianças em 47 escolas, com 109 voluntários da Accenture. A vertente associada ao REF decorreu em 8 escolas em sete distritos, chegando a mais de 250 alunos em 13 turmas até à edição concluída em junho de 2025.

Conclusions

Investigadores do REF relataram que os professores consideraram os módulos relevantes e que os alunos ganharam confiança e fluência digital independentemente do seu desempenho académico prévio; trata-se de observações qualitativas dos parceiros do programa, e não de uma avaliação independente de resultados.

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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