Diia.Education celebrates 6 years: how digital education is transforming in Ukraine

The national digital education platform, Diia.Education, is 6 years old. It helps Ukrainians learn to use digital services with confidence, master new professions, and develop skills for work and life in a digital state. Diia.Education is one of the priority projects that EGAP Program has supported since its inception.

In 2019, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine identified digital literacy as a strategic priority. That same year, Ukraine measured its level of digital competencies for the first time using the European Commission’s methodology (DESI). The results revealed the scale of the challenge and became the foundation for launching Diia.Education — a national project for developing digital literacy and relevant skills for competitiveness in local and global labour markets.

In six years of systematic work, the share of Ukrainians without digital skills has decreased from 15% to 4%. Today, 58% of citizens have basic or higher levels of digital competence — this corresponds to the average indicators of EU countries.

What can be studied on Diia.Education

Currently, more than 700 free educational products are available on the platform: educational series and shorts, guides, and interactive simulators. They cover areas that Ukrainians encounter every day: digital literacy and cyber hygiene, working with data and artificial intelligence, IT professions, reskilling and career development, skills for education and business, barrier-free access, and web accessibility.

More than 3 million users from Ukraine and abroad are already registered on Diia.Education. Training is available in both Ukrainian and English, and convenient formats help maintain user attention, as more than 80% of those who start an educational series complete it. Learning can take place online at one’s own pace from any gadget or offline at 5,000 digital education hubs across the country.

Today, an AI mentor is already working on the platform: it summarises educational materials, explains complex concepts simply, and helps apply knowledge in practice. The next stage will be an AI guide — a tool that will create individual learning pathways.

The strategic partner of the Diia.Education platform is the Swiss-Ukrainian EGAP Program, implemented by East Europe Foundation. The platform’s update in 2023 and the integration of AI tools are being implemented by the Ministry of Digital Transformation with the support of Google.org. Training for coordinators of offline digital education hubs is carried out at the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Transformation in cooperation with Ukrainian Library Association (ULA) NGO within the ‘Diia Support Project’, implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine with funding from Sweden.