"Digital Girls project concept is built upon the understanding that changing young women’s attitudes towards digital jobs and learning by showing clear pathways to excellence is vital for making the study and career in the digital sector relevant to young women.Digital Girls project addresses girls and young women, aged 16-25 - NEETs (unemployed, with lower level of education, or currently not attending any vocational, higher or continuing education), or involved in the last phase of the general secondary education, with the aim to contribute to cultivating and enhancing their digital confidence, to support and encourage them in making their first steps in entering the digital world, or to help them recognize that their passive IT-user skills can be transferred into valuable competencies for the labour market. The project applies ""confidence-building"" measures and effective methodology for youth work in the field, based on combination of role models and digital storytelling.The project objectives included:-Identifying, encouraging and showcasing women in digital jobs-mapping the process for developing of digital skills suitable for the labour market-fostering an atmosphere conducive to digital confidence-changing the attitude towards digital learning through effective methods for high-quality youth workProject activities have been implemented by a consortium of 8 partners from 5 EU countries (NL, BG, CZ, GR, IE) and an European network all having significant and complementary expertise in development and promotion of high quality outputs and their mainstreaming in the partner countries and beyond.The objectives were achieved through:- Performing research for identifying different job profiles in the digital sector; 53 digital professions have been identified and described- Selecting, interviewing and describing role models – active women and girls in the digital sector, resulted in 19 role models profiles- Developing “The Role Models’ Guide to the Digital Galaxy” containing 11 films with the inspiring stories of women working in the digital sector and 19 role models digital profiles- Developing career roadmaps of 5 digital jobs/professions respectively for The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Ireland, Greece and Czech Republic.- Developing and launching the Digital girls platform (www.digital-girls.eu), providing a place and tools for introducing girls to the world of IT and digital professions.- Performing web campaign tailored for girls, reaching over 25.000 people.- Organising and conducting Girls web events ""Web tea and cupcake”, Girls only Open days in companies active in the digital market, Girls Inspiration days – national exploitation events, and Final International conferenceThe project fostered stronger links between youth associations and informal groups, educational institutions, VET providers, job orientation agencies, and cultural and emancipation centres in the partner countries and in countries beyond the partnership to achieve the expected results and ensure the desired impact and sustainability of the initiative. The main goal was to contribute to change of cultural traditions and stereotypes about women’s role in digital sector and to cultivate and enhance girls’ digital confidence and employability. This has been reached through the continuous involvement of the target groups and stakeholders. 150 practitioners and employers in the digital sector and digital training providers have been interviewed at the research stage, 19 role models have been identifies and described, 11 of them filmed, 324 young women and youth workers attended the web events, Digital Girls online platform registered over 14.300 visits. Girls, employers, youth organizations and schools, cultural and emancipation centers, policy makers have been introduced to Digital girls products in the various multiplier events in partner countries (total 328 participants) and were involved in mutual activities and fruitful discussions and planned exploitation activities of the project products. Additionally, the project was disseminated at 179 events with different stakeholders reaching thousands of people. Digital Girls products have been designed and available as free online resources so that, in practical terms, they are open for use at any level - local, regional, national, European and international, which is prerequisite for sustainability and future application."