International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) in Europe, 2023 : main findings and educational policy implications

The 2023 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) assessed the digital competencies of eighth-grade students across 22 education systems in the EU. The study revealed substantial variations in Computer and Information Literacy (CIL) performance across countries, gender, socioeconomic and migrant backgrounds. The results demonstrate that significant efforts are needed in order to move closer to the ambitious EU-level target of reducing the share of low-achieving students in computer and information literacy to less than 15% by 2030. On average across the EU countries participating in the study, 43% of students do not reach the basic level of digital skills, with only a few countries, like Czechia and Denmark, performing better yet still far from the target, while others, particularly Romania and Greece, lag considerably behind.