Reports and Studies about Digital Skills

Develop digital skills through on-the-job training abroad! Did you know there are more than 350,000 vacancies for ICT specialists in Europe today?

Digital Opportunity Traineeships – an EU-funded training initiative – aims to help companies fill vacancies with digitally competent candidates. Digital skills are not only required in the ICT sector, but increasingly across all sectors. Knowledge of cybersecurity, data analytics and machine learning for example are needed in fields as diverse as banking and manufacturing, farming and health. A computer-literate workforce is also vital to maintain Europe’s global competitiveness in a fast-changing world.

This new study on Women in Digital Age reports that there is a growing gap between men and women's participation in the digital sector in education, career and entrepreneurship.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference took place in Brussels on 7 December 2017. Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, outlined her vision for future digital skills policy in Europe, launched the Digital Opportunity scheme for traineeships in digital and awarded the European Digital Skills Awards 2017 to five outstanding projects that have boosted the digital skills of Europeans. Read the report here.

The 1st Conference of the Permanent Forum for Digital Competencies and the launch of the Portuguese National Coalition took place in Coimbra on 6th December 2017. It brought together almost 1,000 stakeholders.

This flyer aims to inspire members, pledgers, or potential actors of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition to make their own commitment in the area of digital inclusion.

This study has been conceptualised and implemented in order to examine the transformation of jobs in the digital economy in the European Union, investigating the penetration of digital technologies into workplaces, the digital skills required by employers and the digital skills currently available in workplaces.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition aims to mobilise all actors that have the capacity to train and re-skill people with the digital skills they need to take part in society and the labour force to remain productive and employable. This leaflet outlines why your organisation or company should get involved in the Coalition.

The Coding for all flyer aims to inspire members, pledgers, or potential stakeholders of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition to make a pledge in the area of coding. The flyer describes some selected coding initiatives that may be replicated and scaled up at national or European level.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition mobilises companies, non-for profit organisations, educational providers, social partners and Member States in Europe who work together to tackle the lack of digital skills in Europe. The aim is to ensure that everyone acquires the digital skills they need to remain productive and employable and included.