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OECD analyses declare that the COVID‑19 crisis has resulted in a significant increase in
online learning by adults, however, adult educators across Europe were plunged into
the situation to pursue the training that had started as classroom-based to online, with
non or very little professional training for this digital transformation.

In order to improve current situation, some of Lithuanian NGOs have started EU fund-
ed projects oriented to improvement of trainers digital skills and help them in trans-
forming their face-to-face courses into online ones. However, these project are still
ongoing, thus the trainings for trainers have not started yet.

In order to meet the increasing needs of online trainings, the teachers will have to
learn how to use various digital tools in order to develop high-quality, interactive and
user-friendly online courses, and motivating learners to attend them. Thus, the train-
ing institutions will have to start offering the courses for developing teachers digital
competences making them to be able for developing such online trainings.

There is the existing need for promoting the importance of digitalization within Lithua-
nia; for raising the awareness of teachers about the importance of the digitalization
within their work; for ensuring the new possibilities of improving teachers’ digital
competences; for improving the quality of online courses.

Also, it is important to raise awareness of vulnerable adult learners about the possibili-
ties to improve their skills and competences through online courses, presenting the
importance of digitalization to them and stressing the quality, convenience and attrac-
tiveness of online training.

2.6 STATE-OF-THE-ART FINDINGS FROM DENMARK

2.6.1 STATE-OF-THE-ART OF NATIONAL DIGITALIZATION
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Since 2014 , the EU Commission has monitored and reported annually on Member
States' digital progress. Thus, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) presents
Europe’s overall digital performance and tracks the progress of EU countries in their
digital competitiveness. As shown in figure 1 below, Denmark takes a front position
when summing up all indicators for human capital, internet access, digital inclusion
and digital public services. In 2021, Denmark was in first place, and in 2022, Denmark
ranks second with an index score of 63.3 against the EU's overall score of 52.3.

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According to the DESI Index , in terms of human capital, Denmark scored 69 pct com-
pared to 54 pct on the EU level, thus ranking as number 5 of 27 EU countries. Within
this indicator, the Danish Government agreed to strengthen digital education for chil-
dren and young people in order to develop inspirational materials on digital technolo-

6 CF The European Commission (2022): ”Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2022. Denmark”.

7 The European Commision 2022, op.cit.