Good practice Imported

Fast track to IT (FIT)

Ireland · Dublin · National · See the Ireland profile

FIT’s mission is to promote an inclusive Smart Economy by creating a fast track to marketable technical ICT skills for those at risk of unemployment in the long term. It is the primary industry skills development initiative facilitating collaboration with government, education &

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: FIT — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems, Migrants
People reached: 18000
Period: 2019-01-01
Region (NUTS): IE06
Keywords: employment, unemployed, skills

Context

Fast Track to IT (FIT) is an Irish industry-government-education partnership providing accessible ICT skills training to help people at risk of long-term unemployment, including migrants, access marketable technical jobs. It collaborates with government bodies (FAS, VECs) and major companies (including SAP, Accenture, IBM and Microsoft) to design market-oriented curricula.

Objectives

To promote an inclusive digital economy by creating a fast track to marketable ICT skills for long-term unemployed and disadvantaged job seekers.

Activities

Development of market-oriented ICT curricula in collaboration with industry and vocational education providers; delivery of training courses; provision of PCs and interactive whiteboard technology to marginalised communities.

Implementation

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

Commonly funded by

ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus National / regional programmes

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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

Quality score: 80/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 25% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

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

Innovation level5/5

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. Fast track to IT (FIT). Persistent ID: a2859622-25cf-4bb4-b634-5626e6755498.

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