Transfer projects

Digital empowerment of citizens: Barometer of citizenship digital competence and online teacher’s digital handbook. IP: Montse Guitert

Duration: 2021

Financing administration: 9.000€

Amount granted: Ajuntament de Barcelona

Country: Catalonia

Investigadora responsable: Dra. Monse Guitert

Project information: The Barcelona City Council and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will work on a project that consists, on the one hand, in knowing what the digital skills of citizens are in order to provide an adequate response to their needs and, on the other, in offer teachers guidance and recommendations to be able to become online teachers to act in the current context of pandemic in which we can find ourselves again in a situation of non-presence, where we will have to do everything online, or in a intermittent.

The activities to be carried out in the project are:

  • Citizenship digital competence thermometer to know the level of citizenship competence
  • Online trainer’s guide / handbook with guidelines, recommendations and resources to be able to apply at many educational levels

Participating Edul @ b members: Dr. Teresa Romeu


Conveni de col·laboració entre l’Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya,mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública, i la Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i la Fundació Blanquerna per al desenvolupament dels nous continguts de l’ACTIC adaptats al marc europeu de competències digitals (DIGComp 2.1) i el sistema d’indicadors d’avaluació.

Financing administration: la Generalitat de Catalunya, mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública Generalitat de Catalunya País: Catalunya

Period: 2020

Grant Amount: 49.000,00 €

Lead researcher: Dra. Teresa Romeu

Participating Edul@b members: Dra. Montse Guitert


Conveni de col·laboració entre l’Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya, mitjançant el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública, i la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) i la Fundació Blanquerna per actualitzar l’estructura general de continguts de l’ACTIC

Financing administration: Generalitat de Catalunya, through the Department of Digital Policies and Public Administration.

Period: 2019

Grant Amount:  67.215,50€

Country: Catalonia

Lead researcher: Dra. Teresa Romeu

Participating Edul@b members: Dra. Montse Guitert


Les competències digitals per a la ciutadania

Period: 2018-2019

Grant Amount:  80.000€

Financing administrationAjuntament de Barcelona

Country: Catalonia

Lead researcher: Dr. Monse Guitert and Dr. Teresa Romeu.

Project Information: The City Council of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) will work on a project to improve the digital competences of citizens, with the aim also of reducing the digital gender divide. The project will be active until the end of 2019 and and will have the participation of the researchers of Edul@b Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeu.

Through Barcelona Activa, the university and the consistory have signed an agreement to digitally empower the population through a program of actions that includes the creation of a map of digital competences that will help people identify their knowledge, skills and attitudes in this area. This map will make it possible to diagnose the level of digital competence of citizens, as well as propose training itineraries adapted to their level of knowledge, interests and needs.