2353-4745 Management of digitisation of educational institutions − improvement model Zarzadzanie cyfryzacją instytucji edukacyjnych – model doskonalący Religa Jolanta author Wronka Anna author Lukasiewicz Research Network – Institute for Sustainable Technologies, Centre for Vocational Education, Research and Innovation Management, University of Lodz Correspondence to: Jolanta Religa jolanta.religa@itee.lukasiewicz.gov.pl Correspondence to: Anna Wronka anna.wronka@uni.lodz.pl 29 12 2023 11 (2023) 2023 73 87 Copyright © 2023 2023 <p>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education process, including the education and vocational training sector, where readiness to switch to remote learning was not common and obvious. In this exceptional situation, the need to digitise both didactic and organizational processes in institutions of continuing education and vocational training, and the need to ensure the quality of these processes has become even more evident. While skilful management with the support of diff erent tools, including improvement models, is a chance for educational units to survive in a turbulent environment and even to build a lasting competitive advantage.</p> <p>The article presents a proposal to support educational institutions in digitisation processes, developed as part of the international project Quality for digital education readiness in VET (Q4EDU), implemented in 2021–2023 by a partnership of seven institutions from four European Union countries (Polish, Greece, Cyprus and Italy). The proposed methodology is a comprehensive and universal solution for assessing the readiness of education and training institutions for the so-called deep digitisation, including pedagogical, technological and organizational aspects of their functioning. 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