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General, Skills & Future of Work
Acquiring e-Leadership Skills in Europe” report, May 2015, available online soon

Published under the title “NEW CURRICULA FOR E-LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN EUROPE” (final report), the first results of the initiative on e-leadership are to be presented to the public in time …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Riga Declaration kicks off eSkills for Jobs 2015-2016 campaign in Europe

On 13 March over 250 participants joined in the official launch of eSkills for Jobs campaign at the high-level conference in Riga. The eSkills for Jobs campaign is a response …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Example of best practice for young high potentials: Nanofutures WING initiative in Germany

Nanofutures is a funding initiative within the WING programme of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. It funds research groups of young high potentials that focus on nanotechnology …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Ade McCormack on Careers in the Digital Age

I have seen significant changes in the overlapping trends associated with the digital economy and skills. As the main author of the first edition of the “e-Skills Manifesto” (2010), I …

General, Skills & Future of Work
350,000 new e-leaders needed in Europe by 2020. Can education and training systems deliver?

Estimates reveal that Europe will need up to 350,000 additional e-leaders by 2020, including replacement demand. This translates into a demand of 40,000 – 73,000 e-leadership skilled individuals per year …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Launch of study on digital skills in the workplace

Digital technologies are having a massive impact on the economy, spreading through all sectors and changing the way economic value is created, the jobs people do, how they do them …

General, Skills & Future of Work
e-Leadership in Europe: Call for Action from stakeholders

Despite high levels of unemployment, Europe is faced with a significant shortage of the people capable of leading innovation to capitalise on advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Economic …

Skills & Future of Work
125th Euro Inf Label for Degree Programmes in the Field of Informatics / Computer Science awarded by ASIIN

At its September session 2014 the Accreditation Commission for Degree Programmes of ASIIN (one of the core team partners of the European e-Leadership Initiative (www.eskills-guide.eu) awarded its 125th Euro Inf …

Skills & Future of Work
New report of the Strategic Policy Forum on the digital transformation of industry and enterprises

Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director General, DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and John Higgins, DIGITALEUROPE Director General and President of the Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship presented …

Skills & Future of Work
Successful First European Conference on Digital and Key Enabling Technologies Skills with 300 expert participants in Brussels

The first European Conference on Digital and Key Enabling Technologies skills was held in Brussels on 1 and 2 June 2015. The conference was a two-day event, with day 1 …

General, Skills & Future of Work
New Service Contract on “Promotion of e-Leadership in Europe” awarded to empirica by the European Commission

The European Commission sees the need to keep momentum relating to e-leadership skills going, provide consolidation to these efforts in 2015-2016, and elaborate a comprehensive agenda (2016-2020) for e-leadership. The …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Brochure on ‘Acquiring e-Leadership Skills: Fostering the Digital Transformation of Europe’ released in all EU languages

The above 36-page brochure has been released and published in June 2015 addressing the topic of e-leadership and the results and achievements of the first phase of the European e-Leadership …