Digital technology is fast transforming the way we study, teach and communicate. At best, it is integrated into thematic courses, employing innovative teaching techniques and allowing the acquisition of transversal skills. Such training is quickly becoming a necessity, as students have grown to rely on digital resources, while ICT know-how is becoming quintessential for the job-market. However, there is a dearth of training opportunities to initiate advanced students into Information and Communication Technologies. Digital Editing of Medieval Manuscripts (DEMM) is a joint training programme between Charles Uni. in Prague, Queen Mary Uni. of London, the Centre National de la recherche scientifique (Lyon), the Uni. of Siena, the Klosterneuburg monastic library and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. It equipped advanced MA and PhD students in medieval studies with the necessary skills to work in a digital environment, through a year-long programme on editing medieval manuscripts and their online publication. A rigorous introduction to medieval manuscripts and their analysis was accompanied by formal training in ICT and introduction to project management. The end of each one-year programme (run thrice, on three consecutive years) saw the students initiated into practical work-experience alongside developers, as they worked on their own digital editions, leading to its online publication. This enhanced the students’ skill-set and the employability opportunities which ensue from it. At the core of the project was an initiation to advanced manuscript studies and ICT. The provision of formal training in this practical field was complemented by work on a year-long project - an edition of an unpublished medieval text which was edited critically, and then prepared for digital publication. In each university a team of several participants, supported by a Local Coordinator, worked together to prepare the editions. This took place over a highly structured year: at the beginning of the year all participants met for training in medieval manuscripts and their editing (palaeography, philology, book history, practical editing, etc.). This was followed by a term of work in each university, supported by cross-institutional collaboration using virtual collaboration spaces. During that time students prepared their own edition, identified problems and potential solutions. At the beginning of the second term the teams met again, this time for relevant training in ICT (HTML, XML, TEI, etc.). The following term was then devoted to subjecting the edition to scrutiny, tagging and preparing it for publication. At the end of the year, both terms came together to supply the basis for concerted work with developers. A week-long Hackathon enabled students to liaise with developers on the creation of their digital edition, based on their previous training and the work carried in the course of the terms. During that time, hands-on experience was supplemented by training in project management from inception to delivery, with specific sessions on time management, practical project management, funding and planning. The outputs of the projects are multifaceted. They include the teaching materials, which were consolidated, trialed and publicized, to support teachers in classes on medieval manuscripts or digitization. The outputs provide a practical guide for digitizing manuscript collections, guides for manuscript studies, for teaching TEI, or in time-management for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. Another key output is a digital library of innovative editions, which was built over the years from students' works. The training of students was one of the programme's key objectives. The programme was unique in combining ICT and practical work, alongside training in medieval studies. This skill-set is invaluable for working in projects both within and without academia, for scholars and entrepreneurs.The training programme ran thrice on three consecutive years. This enabled the consolidation of the programme and the training materials, as well as establishing substantial links between participating institutions. The programme was designed to outlive the length of the funding. A cadre of well-trained and cohesive students from across Europe was established, and given means for future communication, as well as future joint hackathons and hands-on work experience. Materials for all three training sessions were refined during the three years of the programme, to be made into self-standing, freely available web resources. The texts at the core of the programme are one of the more substantial outcomes of the programme. By carefully editing texts and preparing them for digital publication in a highly stable format, these tangible outcomes serve as an important outcome of the programme, not only boosting participants’ experience and CV, but also furthering scholarship.