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The Digital World in 2030. What place for Europe? – European Internet Foundation (EIF) report released

In the chapter on e-skills and competencies the report refers to recent work carried out in European Commission service contracts when stating the “recent modelling based on 2012 data shows …

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First case studies about entrepreneurship education at European universities published

In May 2015, empirica concluded the study “supporting the entrepreneurial potential of higher education” (sepHE), on behalf of the European’s Directorate-General Education and Culture. The main objective of this study …

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Software Campus: an innovative e-leadership programme for excellence

In 2015 empirica completed the evaluation of the Software Campus initiative. Software Campus is a unique cooperation between government, education and industry that supports young researchers in ICT. Each participant …

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The Current E-Skills Gap in Europe

ICT workforce development 2011: 2012 and expected development until 2015 by ICT job categories in Europe Source: Eurostat LFS, IDC Europe. empirica calculations and forecasts (Gareis, K., Hüsing, T., Bludova, …

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Forecasting the e-Skills Gap: More than 500.000 vacant ICT jobs in Europe by 2015

ICT job vacancies 2012: 2015 in Europe Source: Eurostat LFS, IDC Europe. empirica calculations and forecasts (Gareis, K., Hüsing, T., Bludova, I., Schulz, C., Korte, W.B.: e-Skills: Monitoring and Benchmarking …

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Fifth Cluster Event in Germany – The way forward towards e-Leadership in Germany and Bavaria

German industry representatives sent clear signals that there is a growing and critical lack of e-leaders in the economy. The Technical University Munich and St. Gallen University presented the results …

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What can Europe do to tackle the skills-related challenges in KETs?

For Europe to be able to fully realise KETs growth potential in the future, there is a need to align the supply and demand of KETs skills from both qualitative …

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European study revealed: Urgent need for e-leadership higher and executive education courses

Feedback from the European e-Skills 2013 conference audience to whom this had been presented was very positive in so far as they agreed to the urgent need for Europe to …

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e-Skills for Jobs 2014: Mobilising to Support Job Creation and Upskilling of the Workforce, 6 May 2014 – Ethniki Conference Centre, Athens, Greece

During the course of 2014, the e-Skills for Jobs campaign is taking place in 30 European countries, informing students, unemployed people, ICT professionals and SMEs about the vast range of …

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Conference in Brussels on “The International Dimension of e-Skills and the Impact of Globalization” 26 March 2014

Despite its crucial importance and influence the ICT profession remain immature compared to others such as the legal, medical, and engineering professions, with respect to agreed bodies of knowledge, competences, …

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EU Member States are increasingly addressing e-Skills shortages

Compared to a previous assessment released in 2010 the e-skills activity index measuring national policy and stakeholder activity by assessing national policies and initiatives in the e-skills domain has increased …

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ITMB: IT Management for Business bachelor’s degree that forms the basis for future e-leaders

Around 2003 e-skills UK, the country’s Skills Sector Council for the ICT industry, together with a number of employers, discussed measures against the skills gap in ICT. The priority was …