Abstract:

Digital technologies have been playing an increasingly relevant role in the personal, social, academic and professional lives of all citizens, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, the technological skills development is a central issue for any country's education and development policies.

Throughout school life, young people in primary and secondary education, and later, in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), to a greater or lesser degree, have the opportunity to build and develop various skills, namely technological. These will certainly be useful in their academic, social and professional future life.
In this way, it is intended to study which technological skills are built and developed by higher education students and what their perception about the importance of technological skills in employment, personal life and social relationships in the future.

There will be a literature review that will serve as a basis for the design of an online questionnaire to be applied to HEIs students, in order to verify which areas of technological skills (based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens) are most developed and understand repercussions they may have on the professional, personal and social future of these students and for their future quality of life.

The questionnaire is being tested and awaiting expert feedback. It will be applied in three faculties of the universities of Beira Interior and Lisbon and in a polytechnic institute, of public education, located in the North, Center and South of Portugal.

Acknowledgement:
This article is part of the U-Value research project (PTDC/EGE-OGE/29926/2017) funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Keywords:

Technological skills, higher education, quality of life.