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International workshop of the European Commission on e-Skills and ICT Professionalism on 24: 25 March 2014 in Brussels

The presentations for Europe and all the other countries from each participant covered the topics below. The e-Skills GapNational strategy for ICT workforce development / Policy actions Best practices and …

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Expert workshop on ‘e-Leadership Skills for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises’

The European Commission via this service contract aims to support the development of e-leadership skills. The contracting parties, empirica in co-operation with some of the world’s leading business schools and …

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E-Skills: Promotion of ICT Professionalism in Europe

The European Commission has launched a service contract to develop a feasibility study for a pan-European foundational body of knowledge for ICT professionals and of a sustainable operating model for …

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e-Skills gap and digital jobs vacancies to increase – Potential for more than half a million unfilled new jobs for ICT practitioners by 2015 in Europe. To fill these jobs, many Member States need to step up policy action

The authors also expect the trend towards higher-level skills in ICT jobs to continue. The main forecast scenario suggests that by 2020 the number of ICT management, architecture and analysis …

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Do all workers in KETs domains need to be entrepreneurs?

Stakeholders emphasize the importance of working on opening up the minds of people and making them aware of entrepreneurial opportunities and how to act upon those. It is, however, more …

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The most substantial challenges are demonstrating effective leadership and finding, developing, and retaining IT talent: Results from a recent McKinsey survey on business technology

Some extracts relevant to e-leadership have been extracted from the report and are presented below: [“¦] Amid the increasing pressure and dissatisfaction, the enthusiasm to replace management highlights the concerns …

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Fourth Cluster Event in Italy – Italy launches a national e-skills strategy with an emphasis on e-leadership

Several top-level executives from large Italian industry and businesses present at the event (Il Sole 24 Ore, Hewlett Packard, Assintel, Sematic, Don Gnocchi Foundation etc.) strongly argued for an improved …

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“e-Skills and e-Leadership Skills 2020. Trends and Forecasts” Working Paper, May 2015, available online

Referring to a recent Working Paper from empirica the Commission indicates that demand for digitally skilled employees is growing by around 4% a year and that shortages of ICT professionals …

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European e-Leadership curriculum profiles endorsed by European industry leaders

Peter Hagedoorn, Secretary General of the Association, believes that the curriculum profiles go a long way to creating a simpler way of navigating through the jungle of executive education programmes …

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Second Cluster Event in the UK Henley Business School show the way on e-Leadership education

Messages on the importance of integrating understanding of advanced IT and business innovation methods were very well-received. Empirica reported recent comprehensive research on the European landscape of programmes combining these …

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First e-Competence Assessment certificates handed out

Like in the Curriculum Profile development in the European Commission e-leadership initiative ‘European Guidelines and Quality Labels for new Curricula Fostering e-Leadership Skills’ EXIN also bases the e-Competence Assessment (http://www.ecfassessment.org/en/1/home) …

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10 Regional Cluster Events on “New Curricula for e-Leadership: Delivering Skills for an Innovative and Competitive Europe” to take place throughout Europe from May 2014 onwards

It is against this background that 10 events will be organised by the European Commission in cities across the entire European Union in cities like Sofia (20 May 2014), Reading …