Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
Highlights of our work
Through its member societies, CEPIS is active in various topical fields of the digital world. Find out about the most important initiatives on this page.
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CEPIS DiversIT Charter
The DiversIT Charter is a certification which moves through three levels of attainment: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each level has a focus on attraction and retention, asking applicants to showcase their initiatives and policies for increasing gender diversity in ICT professions. Find out more and apply!
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Awareness of the DigComp framework among the CEPIS community
CEPIS carried out a survey among its network about the awareness of the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) framework. The goal of this survey was to find out how aware the CEPIS community is about the use of the DigComp framework in their countries, especially by the national governments, education sector and industry.
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IT Professionalism Europe
Advocating for IT professionalism - the maturing of the ICT profession - has always been one of CEPIS's top priorities. To take its commitment to the next level, CEPIS, together with ICDL Foundation, launched a flagship initiative - IT Professionalism Europe (ITPE).
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Featured News
Iceland becomes first CEPIS member to receive Gold status of DiversIT Charter
17 May 2021
The Icelandic Computer Society (Ský) has become the first CEPIS member society to be awarded the Gold status of the CEPIS DiversIT Charter. The Gold status reflects the organisation’s leading work in encouraging girls and young women to pursue IT studies and advancing gender equality in ICT professions.
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CEPIS website to align with EU digital accessibility directive
7 May 2021
CEPIS is working with the University of Alcalá to align the CEPIS website with the EU Directives 2016/2102 and 2019/882 on digital accessibility.
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CEPIS publishes report on awareness of DigComp among its members
28 June 2021
Throughout April and May 2021, CEPIS carried out a survey among its network about the awareness of the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) framework.
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(Re)watch ITPE and CEN/TC428 event on IT professional standards in Europe
4 June 2021
On 20 May ITPE and CEN/TC428 co-hosted the event ‘Fostering the competent, trusted and recognised IT profession in Europe – how standards can make it happen,’ which focused on the building blocks of IT professionalism, and how they should be implemented in practice.
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