Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition relaunches Pledge Viewer and calls for new pledges
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition has relaunched their Pledge Viewer platform. The revamped tool improves the user experience and makes creation and management of new pledges easier.
Training local talent a better solution for digital skills gap
The President of Revolent Group argues that investing in up- and re-skilling of the local workforce would bring substantial benefits not only in terms of closing the digital skills gap, but in strengthening local economies.
Commission’s new Industrial and SME Strategies highlight importance of digital skills
The European Commission has brought out two Communications as part of a new Industrial Strategy for a globally competitive, green and digital Europe.
The Commission publishes the European Digital Strategy, a strategy for data and a paper on AI
The European Commission has published the European Digital Strategy as well as the European strategy for data on 19 February.
European Commission and OECD join forces to monitor development of AI
The European Commission and the OECD have presented a joint global monitoring initiative of the development of AI in order to better respond to AI-related challenges
CEPIS Digital Skills Policy group calls on EU to act immediately to improve digital skills
The CEPIS Digital Skills Policy working group has produced a position paper, entitled “The European Union must act immediately to improve the level of digital skills”.
EU Commission consults stakeholders for Digital Education Action Plan update
The European Commission will update the 2018 Digital Education Action Plan. Stakeholders are invited to fill in the questionnaire by 2 March 2020.
Summary report on the Digital Europe Programme – consultation
Between 25 July and 25 October 2019, a targeted consultation took place to gather the views of stakeholders on the strategic objectives of the Digital Europe Programme for the first two years. A summary report has been released.
Report on urgent need of digital competencies released in Germany
The German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (RfII) has released the report ‘DIGITAL COMPETENCIES URGENTLY NEEDED!.
Updated Skills Panorama highlights future need for IT professionals
Cedefop has redesigned its ‘Skills Panorama’ website and updated the section on ‘ICT professionals: skills opportunities and challenges’.
