The Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA), in cooperation with Contipso Learning, created an e-learning platform for digital skills training. The activity was implemented within the framework of the project "Ready for Digital Transformation", implemented by BIA, in partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) and the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).
The e-platform offers 36 courses divided into two categories - Specific Digital Skills and Sectoral Basic Skills in 16 economic sectors.
Courses on the e-platform are completely free and freely available after registration at https://bia.contipso.com.
Each course on the platform takes between 40 and 180 minutes. From the very beginning, users have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the content and requirements. Each course ends with a final test, the successful completion of which brings a certificate of completion in the respective digital field.
Users can choose from 20 courses to improve their specific digital skills. Among the topics are:
- Making sales electronically
- Handling personal data and privacy requirements in a digital environment
- Working with spreadsheets
- Setting a digitalisation strategy
- Working with databases
- Solving remote access problems
- Working with software communication systems
- Searching for data and information in a digital environment
- Using information systems for document management
- Digital monitoring and control of production processes
- Assessing the reliability of data, information and digital content
- Working with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
- Developing digital marketing strategies
- Working with technical drawing, design, modelling and design software programs.
- Working with specialised inventory management software
- Exploring market potential through digital means
- Working with customer and supplier relationship management (CRM) software
- Online recruitment and selection
- Working with word processing software
- Creating presentations with electronic tools
Courses in the " Sectoral Basic Skills" category are related to characteristics of the transition to a digital economy in the sectors:
- Hospitality;
- Restaurants;
- Processing and canning of fruits and vegetables, excluding prepared meals;
- Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats;
- Manufacture of milk and milk products;
- Manufacture of other food products;
- Manufacture of wood and articles of wood and cork; except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials;
- Manufacture of paper, paperboard and paper and paperboard products;
- Manufacture of basic chemicals;
- Manufacture of paints, varnishes and similar products, printing ink and putty;
- Manufacture of electrical equipment;
- Manufacture of vehicles, except motor vehicles;
- Manufacture of furniture;
- Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles;
- Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles;
- Sports and other amusement and recreation activities
The e-courses are developed at a high professional level, with attractive and easy-to-navigate online learning content, reflecting current trends in information and communication technologies. The learning content meets the standards of the European framework for digital competence of citizens DigComp and the current requirements of the Bulgarian labour market for the digital competence of the workforce.
It should be recalled that within the framework of the BIA project, analyses of the needs for digital skills in 16 economic sectors were prepared, which showed that only 19% of the workforce cover the required level of digital competence for the position they hold, and over 90% of jobs require specific types of digital skills.
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