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Successful First European Conference on Digital and Key Enabling Technologies Skills with 300 expert participants in Brussels

The first European Conference on Digital and Key Enabling Technologies skills was held in Brussels on 1 and 2 June 2015. The conference was a two-day event, with day 1 …

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New Service Contract on “Promotion of e-Leadership in Europe” awarded to empirica by the European Commission

The European Commission sees the need to keep momentum relating to e-leadership skills going, provide consolidation to these efforts in 2015-2016, and elaborate a comprehensive agenda (2016-2020) for e-leadership. The …

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Brochure on ‘Acquiring e-Leadership Skills: Fostering the Digital Transformation of Europe’ released in all EU languages

The above 36-page brochure has been released and published in June 2015 addressing the topic of e-leadership and the results and achievements of the first phase of the European e-Leadership …

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Release of brochure summarizing the results on ‘e-Skills -Monitoring and Benchmarking Policies and Partnerships in Europe’ in all EU official languages

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European Commission Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs

With demand for skilled ICT workers exceeding supply, Europe could soon face a shortage of more than half a million ICT workers: potentially missing an opportunity to fight massive unemployment …

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Third Cluster Event in Spain IE Business School and Spanish Universities among the first in Europe to adopt new curricula guidelines for innovation

Universities and business schools such as IE Business School and the University of Applied Sciences in Valencia: supported by the guidelines for curriculum development which have been developed by the …

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First Cluster Event in Bulgaria New Bulgarian University fosters new curricula for innovation and e-leaders

This event is part of the EU e-skills strategy and the e-leadership initiative launched by the European Commission in 2013. Organisations across Europe must take advantage of new ICT developments …

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LEAD: e-Leadership Skills for Small and Medium sized Enterprises

This Commission initiative develops targeted actions for start-ups and fast growing SMEs to provide them with relevant e-leadership skills and qualifications for entrepreneurs, managers and advanced ICT users that are …

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KETs: skills challenges of micro-/nanoelectronics through the UK lens

This issue was also most commonly raised during ESCO (Electronics Systems Community) consultations across all its work streams. Sufficient skills supply was identified as a critical enabler to support and …

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Five more Regional Cluster Events scheduled in Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, France and Poland in 2014

These leaders oversee portfolios of both well-defined and emergent innovation opportunities. Successful design and implementation requires developing and engaging highly qualified staff to realise the target value. Research has confirmed …

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‘New Curricula for e-Leadership’ Regional Cluster Events dates and agenda are now online: have a look and select as appropriate for you

These are currently under preparation an include the ones in Munich (Germany) on 17 July 2014 organised by Bayme, together with Technical University Munich and VOICE e.V., a further one …

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Second Knowledge Transfer Stakeholder Forum: summary and presentations now published

The summary and the presentations of the second Knowledge Transfer Stakeholder Forum are now published at the website of the study “Support to the development and implementation of Innovation Union …