Strong together: How peer trainings promote students’ digital competence

The contemporary professional world demands digital competence. However, academic institutions lack programmes for enhancing students’ digital competence. Although peer trainings can be a useful approach to promoting digital competence, empirical evidence of their effectiveness is lacking. This study addresses this gap by evaluating the acquisition of digital competence among participants in interdisciplinary peer trainings grounded in the DigComp framework. The findings reveal that the participants’ digital competence significantly improveed compared to a control group. Both the education of peer trainers and the peer training programmes received positive evaluations from all participants.