News

In Europe the demand for ICT practitioners, with growth of around 4% a year is outstripping supply resulting in a shortage of 509,000 jobs in 2015 compared to 274,000 today. This figure could even increase to almost one million by 2020.

What skills are needed? From my experience running major business IT transformations as a European CIO and directing e-Leadership education programmes, the big challenge is to combine three diverse skills.

The first results of the project are available in a report which investigates e-leadership metrics, higher education offers, and national policies and initiatives in this field. Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome and should be addressed to the authors directly.

The European Commission launched this new initiative on e-Skills and ICT Professionalism as part of the EU e-Skills strategy and with a view to support the development of a pan-European Foundational ICT Body of Knowledge in 2014.

The Erasmus+ programme aims to boost skills and employability, as well as modernising Education, Training, and Youth work. The seven year programme will have a budget of 14.7 billion; a 40% increase compared to current spending levels, reflecting the EU’s commitment to investing

The work is coordinated by Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission. The activities within the initiative are carried out by PwC EU Services, and particularly the members of PwC Innovation Research Centre.

In attaining the e-Skills Quality Label designation, the Linux Professional Institute has proven that their certifications successfully map to the e-Competence Framework.

In attaining the e-Skills Quality Label designation, the Linux Professional Institute has proven that their certifications successfully map to the e-Competence Framework.

E-leadership skills have been identified as one of the top skills that are most likely to remain ‘onshore’, while coding and app building are among the ICT skills most likely to be off-shored in the future.

CIGREF has been working on the topic of competence frameworks and development already since 1991 contributed to the development of the e-Competence Framework and just published the 2014 edition of the ‘NomenclatureRH: Les métiers des systí¨mes d’information dans les grandes entre

By stating that technology itself does not disrupt: it is the use and management of technology that is disrupting – he underlined the importance of an education ecosystem with strong stakeholder interaction to develop and widely spread the skills needed within the workforce.