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fit4internet – National Digital Competence Assessment and Upskilling Platform

Austria · Vienna · See the Austria profile

Austria's national digital competence platform built on DigComp 2.2 AT. Free online competence check with microlearning and digital badges; annual Digital Skills Barometer (~3,700 respondents); explicit focus on adults 60+, low-skilled workers, and jobseekers.

~3,700

Digital Skills Barometer respondents

fit4internet – National Digital Competence Assessment and Upskilling Platform

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: fit4internet (non-profit association)
Period: 2019–present
Keywords: low-skilled adults, older people 60+, jobseekers, digital competence, upskilling, DigComp

Context

Austria's fit4internet is a national digital-competence platform built on DigComp 2.2 AT, offering a free competence check with microlearning and digital badges, focused on adults 60+, low-skilled workers and jobseekers.

Results

The platform offers a free online competence check with microlearning and digital badges, and runs an annual Digital Skills Barometer with around 3,700 respondents.

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 2026-06-20
fit4internet (non-profit association) — accessed 2026-06-20
CEDEFOP – Digital competence model for Austria (DigComp 2.2 AT) — accessed 2026-06-20
EU Digital Skills and Jobs Platform – fit4internet — accessed 2026-06-20
fit4internet – Digital Skills Barometer Austria 2023 press release — accessed 2026-06-20

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Quality score: 88/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 18% in this catalogue (573 scored practices)

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

Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

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

Innovation level2/5

Applies DigComp 2.2 AT through a free check combining self-assessment with validated knowledge testing, micro-learning, and portable digital badges; the nationally representative annual barometer revealing a 26-point self-vs-knowledge gap adds population-level insight not widely replicated across EU member states.

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Operating since 2019 with annual Digital Skills Barometer editions (2022–2026), expanding scope to cloud/AI and regional variants; embedded as Austria's official competence standard.

Evaluation evidence1/1

Nationally representative annual barometer (~3,700 respondents 2023) quantifies a significant self-knowledge gap (76 vs 50 points); CEDEFOP and EU Digital Skills Jobs Platform independently document the DigComp 2.2 AT framework.

Demonstrated reach1/1

National platform open to all Austrians; explicit targeting of 60+ generation and jobseekers through adapted tools; Vienna Digital Skills Insight extends measurement to the capital's employed adults.

Documented learning1/1

Annual published Barometer informs Austrian and EU digital skills policy; CEDEFOP cross-country documentation; DigComp 2.2 AT national adaptation methodology and digital badge system transferable to other EU member states.

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