Good practice Imported

LIFT

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 80% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The LIFT project contributes to changing this reality by helping 50 socially disadvantaged women (unemployed, living in rural, low-educated and not in regular education systems or processes) to increase their digital literacy and digital skills. basic. This project aims to reach

50 women

Target reach — socially disadvantaged women (programme target)

Details

Maturity: Pilot
Promoter: ISQ — website
Type: System
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
Period: 2017-09-14
Region (NUTS): PT11
Keywords: digital skills, women, unemployed, digital literacy

Context

LIFT responds to the low digital literacy and low technological confidence of socially disadvantaged women — unemployed, rural, low-educated, and outside regular education systems — aiming to establish good practice for breaking the 'glass ceiling' of access to quality ICT learning.

Objectives

To improve disadvantaged women's ICT confidence and ability through tailored training and coaching; to raise their digital literacy and basic coding skills; and to build transversal competencies (creativity, cooperation, problem-solving, self-expression) through coding education.

Activities

A seven-partner transnational consortium (led by ISQ, Portugal, with partners in Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Romania) produced a needs-analysis report on women's participation in coding, a basic-ICT and coding curriculum, an online learning platform with open educational resources, and a video series profiling female IT role models, targeting a cohort of 50 socially disadvantaged women.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k) — No budget figure is stated; the multi-country consortium structure and outputs (curriculum, e-learning platform, video series) suggest a typical EU partnership-project scale — treated conservatively as medium cost.
Time to results: Medium (1–3 years) — Start date given as 2017-09-14; no end date stated. Estimated as a medium-length (multi-year) project consistent with typical transnational partnership projects of this type — not confirmed from the page itself.
Staffing & skills: Seven-partner transnational consortium: ISQ (Portugal, coordinator), eolas (Spain), In The City Development (Netherlands), Innovation Training Centre (Spain), Meath Partnership (Ireland), Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum (Romania), Direct Web (Romania)

Conditions for success

Combines training, mentoring and confidence-building rather than technical instruction alone, targeting women with low digital literacy and low technological confidence specifically

Where it fits

Governance type: EU transnational partnership (multi-organisation consortium)
Scale: pilot cohort (50 women) across 5 countries
Income level: mixed EU member-state income levels

Commonly funded by

ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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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

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Quality score: 52/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 80% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

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

Innovation level3/5

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 reach0/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. LIFT. Persistent ID: 4ce12e3f-0ef7-496d-aba0-9984f89e7b42.

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