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General, Green Economy & Smart Energy
SMARTSPACES Project Final Report Published

As the recently published final report on the SMARTSPACES project shows, financial pay-off is achieved by most stakeholders during the first 3 years and by almost all stakeholders after ten …

General, Research & Innovation Policy
Cradle to Cradle as an economic principle for Venlo

Antoin Scholten, mayor of the Venlo City, received a frontrunner award for the Venlo region. The C2C PII handed over this unique award to the Venlo region because of the …

General, Green Economy & Smart Energy
After service implementation: energy savings more than three times higher than expected in Lleida

After implementing energy saving measures at the pilot site in Lleida, the gas consumption has been already reduced by 50% and and by 30% in the electricity consumption in four …

General, Green Economy & Smart Energy
SMARTSPACES “Project to Watch” by the United Nations

SMARTSPACES has been named a “Project to Watch” as an innovative energy reduction project by the United Nations’ Big Data Climate Challenge. The Big Data Climate Challenge, hosted by UN …

General, Skills & Future of Work
e-Leadership Skills for SMEs: Interim Report, May 2015, available online

This is the interim report of the e-leadership skills initiative targeting start-ups and fast growing SMEs. Work is in progress and is scheduled to be finished in September 2015 and …

Skills & Future of Work
New videos demonstrating the e-leadership skills relevance for industry, new statistics and forecasts (2020), new educational ecosystem fostering digital transformation are available online

The videos entitled “¢ ‘e-Leadership – what it is and why it is relevant for industry’, “¢ ‘e-Leadership demand and supply in Europe from today to 2020′”¢ ‘Educational Ecosystem Fostering …

Skills & Future of Work
ICT workforce increase in Europe: e-skills policy created the right framework

The supply of freshly trained computer scientists has been slowly decreasing from 2007. In 2012 114,000 Computer Science first degrees were awarded. At the same time, the ICT workforce was …

General, Skills & Future of Work
e-Leadership conference in Berlin: Is Germany well placed to succeed?

The skills needed for rapid growth of SMEs and start-ups: a view from Germany”e-Leadership skills into the Digital Economy” Conference, 21 April 2015, EIT ICT Labs, BerlinThis conference was part …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Recommendations of KETs Skills Initiative tried out in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

The sectoral pilots, carried out by PwC, implied conducting an in-depth analysis of the status quo regarding skills issues in a selected KET in three Member States. Based on this …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Dramatic changes in the ICT workforce structure show where the jobs of the future can be found

The Management and Plan/Design positions: IS management and governance, architecture, analysis are the ICT worker segments that have been growing massively over the last years and. Europe has added 400,000 …

Digital Health, General
Final report of the Evaluative Study on the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive (2011/24/EU) available online

The final report of the Evaluative Study on the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive (2011/24/EU), co-authored by empirica GmbH, KPMG Advisory Spa and Technopolis Group, has been officially published on the European …

General, Skills & Future of Work
KETs skills priorities to be incorporated in new Work Programmes for Horizon 2020

The complementary study launched by DG RTD aims to provide the Commission with the analysis and recommendations on skills in the NMBP areas (Nanotechnologies, New Materials, Industrial Biotechnology and Advanced …