This report compares the pilot testing activities carried out in six DigiCreate partner countries, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Spain, in March 2026. Its purpose is to bring together, analyse, and interpret the results of these national sessions to evaluate the effectiveness of the DigiCreate platform, with particular attention to its core feature, the Digital Toolbox. The DigiCreate platform was created to support and connect professionals and young people entering the cultural and creative industries. Its Toolbox serves as a curated collection of digital tools and resources designed to help users perform common tasks in these sectors. The pilot phase was a key stage in the platform’s development. It went beyond technical testing and functioned as a structured learning and feedback process, aimed at collecting direct insights from the platform’s target users. Across all six countries, each national partner organised one pilot session with 15 participants selected through open calls shared via social media, partner networks, and institutional channels. Using pre-defined guidelines, participants completed scenario-based tasks that reflected real workflows in the cultural and creative industries, ensuring consistency and enabling meaningful comparison across countries. The pilot activities pursued three main objectives: to assess the usability of the Toolbox, to measure participants’ ability to complete tasks successfully and independently using the platform, and to gather structured feedback on the relevance of the tools, the clarity of instructions and workflows, and the overall quality of the platform as a resource for learning and professional development. The comparative approach strengthens the value of this report. By examining evidence from six different national contexts, it identifies both recurring findings that point to structural strengths or weaknesses of the platform and context-specific issues that may require local adaptation. Based exclusively on the six national pilot reports, this document acts as a synthesis and interpretation tool to support evidence-based decisions for the further development and scaling of the DigiCreate platform, while also contributing to wider knowledge on digital capacity building in the cultural and creative industries under Erasmus+.

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