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eSkills & Work, General

Dramatic changes in the ICT workforce structure show where the jobs of the future can be found

The Management and Plan/Design positions: IS management and governance, architecture, analysis are the ICT worker segments that have been growing massively over the last years and. Europe has added 400,000 …

Digital Health, General

Final report of the Evaluative Study on the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive (2011/24/EU) available online

The final report of the Evaluative Study on the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive (2011/24/EU), co-authored by empirica GmbH, KPMG Advisory Spa and Technopolis Group, has been officially published on the European …

eSkills & Work, General

KETs skills priorities to be incorporated in new Work Programmes for Horizon 2020

The complementary study launched by DG RTD aims to provide the Commission with the analysis and recommendations on skills in the NMBP areas (Nanotechnologies, New Materials, Industrial Biotechnology and Advanced …

eSkills & Work, General

Acquiring e-Leadership Skills in Europe” report, May 2015, available online soon

Published under the title “NEW CURRICULA FOR E-LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN EUROPE” (final report), the first results of the initiative on e-leadership are to be presented to the public in time …

eSkills & Work, General

Riga Declaration kicks off eSkills for Jobs 2015-2016 campaign in Europe

On 13 March over 250 participants joined in the official launch of eSkills for Jobs campaign at the high-level conference in Riga. The eSkills for Jobs campaign is a response …

eSkills & Work, General

Example of best practice for young high potentials: Nanofutures WING initiative in Germany

Nanofutures is a funding initiative within the WING programme of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. It funds research groups of young high potentials that focus on nanotechnology …

eSkills & Work, General

Ade McCormack on Careers in the Digital Age

I have seen significant changes in the overlapping trends associated with the digital economy and skills. As the main author of the first edition of the “e-Skills Manifesto” (2010), I …

eSkills & Work, General

350,000 new e-leaders needed in Europe by 2020. Can education and training systems deliver?

Estimates reveal that Europe will need up to 350,000 additional e-leaders by 2020, including replacement demand. This translates into a demand of 40,000 – 73,000 e-leadership skilled individuals per year …

eSkills & Work, General

Launch of study on digital skills in the workplace

Digital technologies are having a massive impact on the economy, spreading through all sectors and changing the way economic value is created, the jobs people do, how they do them …

eSkills & Work, General

e-Leadership in Europe: Call for Action from stakeholders

Despite high levels of unemployment, Europe is faced with a significant shortage of the people capable of leading innovation to capitalise on advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Economic …

eSkills & Work

125th Euro Inf Label for Degree Programmes in the Field of Informatics / Computer Science awarded by ASIIN

At its September session 2014 the Accreditation Commission for Degree Programmes of ASIIN (one of the core team partners of the European e-Leadership Initiative (www.eskills-guide.eu) awarded its 125th Euro Inf …

eSkills & Work

New report of the Strategic Policy Forum on the digital transformation of industry and enterprises

Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director General, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and John Higgins, DIGITALEUROPE Director General and President of the Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship presented …