The development of technology improves every human activity. A big leap in the development of the educational system took place with the integration of information and communication technology into the teaching process. Teachers and students face new challenges and need to have as many competencies as possible in order to be able to participate in all activities in the best possible way, and precisely digital competencies offer a number of opportunities for personal and professional development. In this research, digital competences are briefly defined and an overview of previous research on the topic of self-assessment of digital competences. In addition, the paper presents the results of research on self-assessments of digital competences of future teachers, ways of acquiring digital competences and assessments of digital competences of fellow students. A questionnaire was made for the needs of the research and it was filled out by 195 future teachers. The results showed that 88.21 % of future teachers were familiar with the concept of digital competence. Future teachers self-assess their digital competences mostly as excellent and very good, and the digital competences of their colleagues self-assess as very good. When acquiring digital competences, respondents indicated that they were most helped by workshops, seminars and various programs such as Kahoot. In conclusion, 67.18 % of future teachers believe that digital competences are completely important in education.