News about Digital Skills

Anja Monrad, Senior Vice President of Dell Central and Eastern Europe, has been appointed the chair of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Governing Board. The Governing Board provides strategic leadership and gives high-level advice to improve the functioning and the impact of the Coalition as well as monitoring its overall progress.

There are so many ways in which we can foster digital skills among EU citizens. It is important that we share information on the many good practices across Europe, to see what is working well in one country and replicate it in others, adapting to the specific local needs and demands. The European Commission, with the contribution of the Digital Champions, has identified some great projects that could be an inspiration for other similar initiatives, that could also be supported by the European Social Fund.

Journalists interested in the thematic areas and eventual outcomes of the Digital Assembly 2018, can find relevant materials in this page. This major annual forum brings together more than 1,000 stakeholders to discuss about the Digital Single Market policies and recent technological developments.

The European Commission is proposing to create the first ever Digital Europe programme and invest €9.2 billion to align the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027 with increasing digital challenges.

The Commission's Digital Europe programme, launched on 6 June 2018, proposes €9.2 billion of investment to meet the digital challenges of the future. Find out more about how EU funding is making a difference to projects in key areas, including supercomputing, Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity.

Digital transformation holds the key to unlocking future growth in Europe. Through new funding projects, the next long-term EU budget – the European Multiannual Financial Framework - will help to bridge the EU’s digital investment gap for the 2021-2027 period.

Today there are 360,000 online vacancies for information and communication technologies (ICT) professionals in seven EU countries, up more than 170% from just 130,000 in July 2016. On this basis, the number of vacancies for ICT specialists for the entire EU could be estimated at 600,000. These are some results from a pilot project that monitors online vacancies in real-time that can be used by policy makers, universities and companies to provide key information for their digital strategies.

European Commissioners Gabriel and Navracsics encourage EU Education Ministers to involve all schools in EU Code Week 2018.

Commissioners Mariya Gabriel and Marianne Thyssen are glad to announce that Professor Maarten Goos from Utrecht University School of Economics has accepted to be the Chair of the High-Level Group on the Impact of the Digital Transformation on EU Labour Markets.

On 3 May 2018 the Swedish National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition was launched at the IT and Telecom Industries office in Stockholm. The Coalition will work on actions such as developing public sector leadership skills, implementing the national strategy for the digitalization of the school system, raising interest in IT among young people and women, skills uptake and life-long learning as well as immigration and integration and digitalized society available and usable for all citizens.