FVU-digital: strengthen your basic IT skills
From MitID and Digital Post to email and job seeking – digital upskilling for adults
The digital society makes no exceptions. Whether you need to check your payslip, book an appointment with the doctor, read a letter from the municipality, or use a professional IT system at work, almost everything assumes basic digital skills. For many adults who did not grow up with a computer in their hand, that assumption can feel like a wall. FVU-digital is FVU's answer to that need.
§What is FVU-digital?
FVU-digital is one of FVU's five subject areas and has four levels. The purpose is, according to the Ministry of Children and Education's description, to strengthen participants' opportunities to develop and gain proficiency and confident use of their basic digital skills. So it's not about becoming an IT expert, but about gaining the digital basic skills that everyday life and working life increasingly require.
§What does one work with?
- 01To log in safely to public and private services with MitID
- 02To read and answer mail in Digital Post and understand what is expected
- 03To write, send and attach files in an email
- 04To search for and use information online – and assess whether it is trustworthy
- 05To use the digital systems your specific workplace requires
§Permanent subject with growing audience
FVU-digital has not always been a permanent part of FVU. The subject — together with FVU-English — was continued permanently from 2024, and the target groups for both subjects have since been expanded. This reflects a broader political recognition that digital skills are today as fundamental as being able to read and count.
§FVU-digital at the workplace
FVU-digital is not only offered at adult education centers. Many companies order classes directly for their employees, often in combination with FVU-English, Danish or mathematics. Here a teacher first tests the participants' level and organizes the teaching based on that – typically in courses of 20-30 teaching hours per level.
§Why it pays off to get started
Digital skills have a way of spreading positively to other parts of life: the person who learns to navigate safely in Digital Mail often also finds it easier to search for information apply for benefits or communicate with the public on their own. At work it means fewer barriers and more independence in tasks involving screens and systems — which today is most jobs.
FVU-digital is free to participate in, like FVU's other subject areas, and you don't need any previous IT experience to start. The only requirement is the desire to move forward – the rest the teaching builds up, step by step.